Inspiring Older Readers
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A Passion For Books posted on 31 Jul 2018
Published in 1999, this lively collection of relatively short and mercifully non-academic essays about the impact of books on the lives of critics ..
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Calypso posted on 29 Jul 2018
It took me a little while to tune into the David Sedaris’ delicious radio episodes on BBC Radio 4...
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The Things They Carried posted on 27 Jul 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads Tim O'Brien's contribution to the literature of the war in Vietnam
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Ragtime posted on 24 Jul 2018
As I finished reading this novel (or rereading it to be strictly accurate) I started to think about how I could possibly do justice to it in a short review
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Deaf Sentence posted on 22 Jul 2018
At the end of this novel, David Lodge notes in his acknowledgements that “the narrator’s deafness and his Dad have their sources in my own experience ....
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A Year in Provence posted on 20 Jul 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, has a mellow moment with the illustrated edition of Peter Mayle's genre-creating travel book. A guilty pleasure?
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They Walk In The City posted on 17 Jul 2018
I think it’s fair to say that Priestley isn’t so much a ‘novelist’ as a storyteller.
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Adrian Mitchell’s Poetry and Protest: To Whom It May Concern (Tell me lies about Vietnam) posted on 15 Jul 2018
This weekend the USA’s most controversial President since ‘Tricky Dicky’ Nixon paid a visit to the UK
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The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted posted on 13 Jul 2018
I must confess that I take as axiomatic that I'm likely to disagree with anything Donald Rumsfeld has to say.
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Burning the Days posted on 12 Jul 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes on James Salter's memoir and finds himself haunted by the ghost of Ernest Hemingway