Inspiring Older Readers
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When ‘now’ books become ‘yesterday’s’ books posted on 28 Nov 2017
At some point in most academic semesters I begin to trawl through the books on my office shelves to weed out the stuff I’m unlikely to ever read again
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Reading Bernard MacLaverty posted on 26 Nov 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn takes a look at the work of Belfast-born, Glasgow-based novelist and acclaimed short story writer Bernard MacLaverty
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The Electric Michelangelo posted on 24 Nov 2017
I remember Sarah Hall’s book being published in 2004 to significant acclaim and although I bought a copy I somehow never got around to reading it.
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The Borrower posted on 22 Nov 2017
As I am an avid reader and also a lover of mysteries, this first novel by Rebecca Makkai promised to be right up my street.
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Fond Memories of a Small Prairie Bookshop posted on 21 Nov 2017
This article first appeared in the Letterpress Project publication, Bookshop Memories Revisited
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Norse Myths : Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki posted on 19 Nov 2017
Kevin Crossley-Holland is a master storyteller who over the years has been the definitive re-interpreter of myth from many lands
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The Harrap Book of Humorous Prose posted on 19 Nov 2017
I suspect that all of us have our bookish equivalents of the famous Proustian Madeleine...
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The Moor posted on 17 Nov 2017
I’m not an outdoors type. I really don’t like walking in nature and I would much rather spend my time in the labyrinths of a city......
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Black Fire! New Spirits! posted on 16 Nov 2017
Let’s suppose you know nothing of the history of the Black civil rights movement in the USA during the 1960s and 1970s.
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An Interview With John Vernon Lord posted on 15 Nov 2017
An Interview With John Vernon Lord