Inspiring Older Readers
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My Name Is Leon posted on 22 Oct 2016
This is one of those books that is clearly based on real experience because the characters and the circumstances ring true ...
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Considering Ian McEwan’s The Children Act…again posted on 21 Oct 2016
Guest reviewer Alun Severn reads Ian McEwan's 'The Children Act' and finds much to admire.
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The Pigeon Tunnel posted on 19 Oct 2016
I’ve always felt conflicted about John Le Carré as an author – some of his books I really love and some don’t speak
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Red Shelley posted on 11 Oct 2016
Paul Foot died at the comparatively early age of 66 in 2004 ....
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Hitler's Children posted on 07 Oct 2016
Guest reviewer Alun Severn goes in search of some historical background on terrorism and pulls up a dud.......
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Boy In Darkness posted on 05 Oct 2016
Back in the late Sixties when I was still a teenager, I desperately wanted to be associated with the ideas and lifestyle of the counter-cultural....
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The Tooth Fairy posted on 03 Oct 2016
I have to admit that this isn’t the kind of novel I’d normally pick up and certainly not one I’d expect to enjoy.
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Darkness At Noon posted on 29 Sep 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, rereads Arthur Koestler's anti-totalitarian masterpiece.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps posted on 25 Sep 2016
Buchan wrote his first thriller (or ‘shocker’ as he called them) in 1914 in something of a rush before the start of the Great War
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The Man With The Golden Arm posted on 21 Sep 2016
American novelist Nelson Algren is often referred to as the chronicler of underworld urban America..