Inspiring Older Readers
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Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project posted on 29 May 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Iain Sinclair's book that focuses on "the craven greed and vanity of ‘grand projects’ "
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Hurry On Down posted on 27 May 2017
You’ve got to feel sorry for poor old John Wain. His reputation as a writer has metaphorically slipped down the back of the literary sofa..
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Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me posted on 22 May 2017
This is one of those unexpected week-end reads – a book I’d never heard of before that I picked up on a whim ...
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The Atmospheric Railway: new and selected stories posted on 19 May 2017
I suspect that Shena Mackay would be described as a writers writer...
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The Missing of the Somme posted on 19 May 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reviews a short book by 'one of the most deceptively hard-working slackers in literature'
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Neuromancer posted on 17 May 2017
Neuromancer by William Gibson Some books appear with a metaphorical puff of smoke and flash of lightening and go down to history as game-changers.
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Too Much: Art & Society in the Sixties 1960-75 posted on 14 May 2017
Guest reviewer Alun Severn reads volume three of Hewison’s The Arts in Britain Since 1939.
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The Last Poets posted on 09 May 2017
Dutch writer and music journalist Christine Otten is completely in thrall to the legend of The Last Poets...
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Memoirs of Hadrian posted on 07 May 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reviews 'Memoirs of Hadrian' and concludes that it is 'a Proustian triumph of imaginative historical writing'.
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The Slynx posted on 04 May 2017
The Slynx was published in 2003 in the US after its original release in Russia in 2000 and garnered almost universal praise...