Inspiring Older Readers
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Remember the journey to School Integration posted on 07 Aug 2017
On 17th May 1954 the Supreme Court heard the case of Brown v Board of Education in Topeka ....
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Direct Red posted on 05 Aug 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn puts on his scrubs, washes his hands and dips into Gabriel Weston's memoir of life as a surgeon.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray posted on 04 Aug 2017
I have always felt that one of the best things about Wilde’s only novel was the intemperate, frothing outrage it caused among contemporary book reviewers
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Taking a trip to the Invisible Library posted on 02 Aug 2017
The other day when I had way too much time on my hands I was grazing on some book-related websites ...
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S is for Space posted on 01 Aug 2017
Ray Bradbury who died at the ripe old age of 91 in 2012 was American literary aristocracy.
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57th Street Books, Hyde Park, Chicago posted on 01 Aug 2017
This beautiful red-brick independent bookstore is a real Tardis of a shop ...
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Powell’s Bookshop, Hyde Park, Chicago posted on 31 Jul 2017
Half an hour on the Metra south from Millennium Park station in central Chicago takes you to the Hyde Park district
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One For The Books posted on 29 Jul 2017
I remember reading and thoroughly enjoying Joe Queenan's newspaper columns back when big Sunday broadsheet newspapers seemed the height of sophistication.
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Larry McMurtry: ‘book rancher’ posted on 27 Jul 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Larry McMurtry's autobiographical reflections on his life in books.
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Dying without a strategic plan posted on 23 Jul 2017
I read a lot of books about books, book collecting and the people who collect or sell books – it’s become a bit of a nerdy obsession.