Inspiring Older Readers
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Art Matters posted on 26 Sep 2022
For a cohort of teenagers and those in their early twenties, Neil Gaiman is something of a guru ...
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Quentin Blake: A Year of Drawings posted on 19 Sep 2022
At the time of peak lockdown in 2020 being effectively under Covid house-arrest, people found themselves doing uncharacteristically obsessive things
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Nosing around other people’s bookshelves posted on 05 Sep 2022
If you are foolish enough to invite me into your house be prepared for me to make a beeline for your bookshelves,
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Vintage Everyman Paperbacks posted on 01 Sep 2022
The Everyman library of book titles must be one of the better known book imprints ...
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Gothic posted on 21 Jul 2022
This overview of all things Gothic by Richard Davenport-Hines starts from quite a simple proposition ...
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Something Wicked from Japan posted on 02 Jun 2022
This extraordinary book, in both English and Japanese, is a superb introduction to ‘Ghosts, demons & Yokai in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces’ as the subtitle
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Birmingham #2 1970s & 80s posted on 05 May 2022
This second instalment of Brian Homer’s Photozine series sees the photographer and designer continue to open his extensive archive of images
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Jane Eyre posted on 10 Apr 2022
In her introduction to this Enitharmon Edition of Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego’s illustrations for Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre....
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The Pilgrim’s Progress posted on 27 Mar 2022
"The Pilgrim’s Progress: from this world to that which is to come delivered under the similitude of a dream" by John Bunyan has never been out-of-print
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Saltley, Birmingham 1978 & WELD Carnival Handsworth 1979 posted on 02 Mar 2022
In January of this year I was delighted to get the chance to review a new photozine from the Birmingham-based photographer and designer, Brian Homer.