Inspiring Older Readers
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Bullet Train posted on 16 Jun 2024
I think the rise and rise in popularity of young Japanese authors in translation has been one of the most remarkable features of the literary landscape
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Remembering radical bookselling in the 1980s posted on 12 Jun 2024
Regular guest contributor to the Letterpress Project, Alun Severn worked in radical bookselling in the mid-80s and has written a reminiscence of this time
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The Long Divorce posted on 09 Jun 2024
I’ve written extensively about the work of Bruce Montgomery (aka Edmund Crispin) elsewhere on this site
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The Times Authors Number 2: George Orwell posted on 05 Jun 2024
Back at the start of the 1970s when I was beginning to discover the excitement of reading and literature, I relied heavily on the Sunday broadsheets
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Paris Trout posted on 01 Jun 2024
Published in 1988, Pete Dexter's Paris Trout is most frequently described as a study of 1950s Deep South bigotry ...
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Henry’s War posted on 29 May 2024
Who, you might reasonably be asking, was/is Jeremy Brooks?
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A Girl in Winter posted on 26 May 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn re-evaluates Philip Larkin's 'A Girl in Winter' and finds his earlier opinions of the novel were too dismissive
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Regeneration posted on 22 May 2024
Published in 1991, Pat Barker’s Regeneration turned out to be the first instalment of what has become an eponymously named trilogy of novels
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Hercule Poirot's Silent Night: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery posted on 19 May 2024
I guess we’re all reluctant to give up on our favourite literary characters.
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Keeping On Keeping On: Revisiting Alan Bennett’s diaries and memoirs on his 90th birthday posted on 15 May 2024
Guest writer, Alun Severn pays tribute to Alan Bennett and considers the diaries that make him a modern-day Pepys.