Inspiring Older Readers
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Goat Music posted on 31 Jan 2017
The stories and myths of the Classical World remain an enduring source of inspiration to contemporary authors....
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Mockingbird posted on 26 Jan 2017
Published in 1980 and nominated in that year for the Nebula Award, Walter Tevis’s dystopian novel which is set at some undefined time in the future ..
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Memoir posted on 25 Jan 2017
Guest writer and reviewer, Alun Severn, reads John McGahern's beautiful memoir.
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A Good Death posted on 23 Jan 2017
I always look forward to the next gripping instalment in this Birmingham based detective series and this was another page turner ...
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The Woman From Sarajevo by Ivo Andric posted on 20 Jan 2017
Ivo who? That’s certainly what I thought when I came across this book in a charity shop not too long ago.
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Novel On Yellow Paper posted on 17 Jan 2017
In a rather lazy way I’ve always thought of Stevie Smith as a kind of British Dorothy Parker
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The Crossing posted on 15 Jan 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn, moves on to read the second part of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy - and he's disappointed.
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A.E. Coppard Selected Stories posted on 13 Jan 2017
I have never been a huge fan of the short story form.
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Hide & Seek posted on 07 Jan 2017
Go into any bookshop and you’ll almost certainly find that they have a section of the shelving dedicated to ‘crime’
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All The Pretty Horses posted on 05 Jan 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn considers what is possibly the finest novel by one of America's greatest living authors.