Inspiring Older Readers
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The Gate & River of Time posted on 03 Mar 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads two different takes on the horrifying events of the Cambodian civil war of the early 1970s.
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Spike Island posted on 25 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads Philip Hoare's history of 'the extraordinary quarter-mile long neo-gothic Royal Victoria Military Hospital'
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Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt and other poems posted on 23 Feb 2017
My time spent in punk music venues in the second half of the 1970s produced a number of moments I'll never forget.
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To Exercise Our Talents : The democratization of writing in Britain posted on 21 Feb 2017
This is one of those very rare things – a book that is both a remarkable piece of literary research and an accessible and enjoyable read.
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Beast posted on 17 Feb 2017
For a slim book of only 160 pages this is a physically and emotionally exhausting read.
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Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud posted on 15 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads about what it's like sitting for a legend of twentieth century painting
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Pincher Martin posted on 12 Feb 2017
When I'm doing book reviews for use on the Letterpress site I try and make it a rule ...
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The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez posted on 10 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads the remarkable story of the great painter Velazquez and the largely unknown printer and bookseller, John Snare.
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The Grass Beneath The Wire posted on 07 Feb 2017
I make a point of trying to collect and read books by authors who come from what we might call in the current jargon 'outsider groups'
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Dadland posted on 07 Feb 2017
This is the special and very ambitious biography of Tom Carew, who was described by The Times of India as ‘Lawrence of Burma’