Inspiring Older Readers
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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.
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Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture posted on 12 May 2024
Like many people who went through the British education system, I was never given any systematic or useful introduction ...
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Everyday Jazz Lives: Encounters with the Birmingham Scene posted on 08 May 2024
There is something magnetic about the relationship between jazz, jazz musicians and photography.