Inspiring Older Readers
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Treasure Palaces: Great writers visit great museums posted on 11 Oct 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn has an unexpectedly pleasurable encounter with a book of essays in which writers talk about their favourite museums
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Hard Times posted on 05 Oct 2018
This might well be the shortest novel Dickens wrote but it’s still densely packed with his trademark characters ...
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Sea Prayer posted on 03 Oct 2018
All wars generate their own body of literature – sometimes elegiac or reflective, sometimes jingoistic or triumphal ...
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The Unpunished Vice: A life of reading posted on 29 Sep 2018
A new book from Edmund White is always a must buy – almost regardless of the subject matter....
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Sweet William posted on 28 Sep 2018
Beryl Bainbridge seems to be a writer’s writer. I say this because so many novelists acknowledge Bainbridge’s influence and her talent but her public profi
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The Dice Man posted on 26 Sep 2018
Luke Rhinehart is the pseudonym of George Cockcroft and his 1971 publication, The Dice Man, is almost the definition of a cult novel.
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Out of Sheer rage posted on 24 Sep 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn concludes that Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage "is really quite brilliant".
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Lion Cross Point posted on 22 Sep 2018
In his recently published memoir reflecting on how reading has shaped his life and ideas, Edmund White talks of his passion for Japanese literature
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I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A memoir of Nazi terror posted on 20 Sep 2018
If you’ve lived through and witnessed some of the worst things one human being can inflict on another, how is it possible to revisit that time...?
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The Silence of the Girls posted on 17 Sep 2018
I realise that I don’t know very much about the legendary Greek hero Achilles apart from a dim recollection of his extraordinary strength and prowess...