Inspiring Older Readers
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Double Whammy posted on 01 Apr 2020
Former journalist turned prolific novelist, Carl Hiaasen was something of an eco-warrior before it was fashionable to be so.
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Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell’s Blue Period posted on 30 Mar 2020
Writing about music is such a difficult thing. Writing about music that is deeply meaningful to you is even harder
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Mrs Woolf & the Servants posted on 27 Mar 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn pulls back the curtain on the lives of 'downstairs' staff of a famous writer.
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Reading Room Only : memoir of a radical bibliophile posted on 24 Mar 2020
Political activists are popularly supposed to be wild-eyed visionaries or ranting dogmatists ...
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Everything That Rises Must Converge posted on 21 Mar 2020
I’m not a huge fan of short stories but when I read one that captures my imagination I think it’s a glorious form of writing.
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The Republic of Whores posted on 16 Mar 2020
Take a pinch of Catch-22, add a sprinkling of M*A*S*H and lace with a liberal dose of The Good Soldier Svejk ....
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A Long Petal of the Sea posted on 10 Mar 2020
The multi-award winning author is described on the book jacket as ‘a novelist, feminist and philanthropist’ ...
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Authorised Murder posted on 07 Mar 2020
I would imagine that most people associate Isaac Asimov with writing either science fact or science fiction...
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A High Wind In Jamaica posted on 02 Mar 2020
This is a book I’ve been aware of for what seems like the whole of my reading life but it’s constantly crept under my radar
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Quartet in Autumn posted on 28 Feb 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds an unexpected 'seam of treasure' waiting for him in Barbara Pym's understated lower-middle class world