Inspiring Older Readers
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Destination Unknown posted on 23 Mar 2025
Christie’s name has become so indelibly associated with the ‘cosy crime’ genre she virtually defined ...
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The Path to the Spiders’ Nests posted on 19 Mar 2025
Writer, journalist and literary critic, Italo Calvino (1923 – 1985) is perhaps most associated with that generation of post-war European public intellectua
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Who Killed My Father posted on 17 Mar 2025
When I picked up this slim book, I have to be honest and confess that the young French author, Édouard Louis was a new name to me,
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Up the Junction posted on 13 Mar 2025
Just as with Dunn’s first full-length novel, Poor Cow, Up the Junction, which came along four years earlier in 1963...
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Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul posted on 10 Mar 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn enjoys H.G. Wells' social satire of Edwardian lower-middle-class aspiration
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Prater Violet posted on 04 Mar 2025
This novella ( it’s only a touch over a hundred pages long) packs a deceptive amount between its covers.
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Pity posted on 02 Mar 2025
Pity is poet Andrew McMillan’s first novel and, like his poetry collections, it puts sexuality and identity in post-industrial Northern England icentre-sta
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The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell posted on 25 Feb 2025
Guest writer, Alun Severn reads The Crystal Spirit, a biography of George Orwell written by one of his closer friends
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Orbital posted on 19 Feb 2025
I’ve rather got out of the habit of automatically reading the Booker Prize winner every year
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Rereading Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost posted on 17 Feb 2025
Guest writer, Alun Severn reassesses Philip Roth's 'Exit Ghost' and suggests this difficult book shouldn't deter admirers of his other later work