Inspiring Older Readers
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It Can’t Happen Here posted on 10 Nov 2024
Published in 1935 this novel sat around in relative obscurity until late last year ...
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Music Outside posted on 06 Nov 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes a journey into the British Jazz scene in the 1960s and 70s.
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Shakespeare’s Tragic Art posted on 04 Nov 2024
Stepping into the already crowded arena of Shakespeare studies must be a daunting task.
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The Man Who Wasn’t There posted on 27 Oct 2024
This is a slim, even cryptic novel of life in post-war, black and white Britain. 12 year old Colin has no father......
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Someone Like You posted on 23 Oct 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads 'Someone Like You' by Roald Dahl and discovers that it's a 'good bad book'
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Whisky Galore posted on 21 Oct 2024
1949 was a tremendous year for fans of Ealing Studio movies because it saw the release of three films ...
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The History of Mr Polly posted on 14 Oct 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds that this Edwardian classic novel was his perfect read for the mood he was in.
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England Made Me posted on 09 Oct 2024
This is, I suspect, one of Greene’s lesser known (and less read?) novels – originally published in 1935
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The Strange Library posted on 01 Oct 2024
So another year slips past and once again, much to the chagrin and puzzlement of his fans, Haruki Murakami doesn’t get the Nobel prize for literature.
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Babbitt posted on 30 Sep 2024
Comparatively few novelists create a protagonist whose characteristics chime so perfectly with a social or economic phenomenon that the name enters ...