Inspiring Older Readers
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Ulysses by James Joyce published by Folio Society Books and illustrated by Palladino posted on 11 May 2017
For many years now I have had a ready answer for that parlour game where you are required to name the single book you’d choose to have with you ..
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The Last Poets posted on 09 May 2017
Dutch writer and music journalist Christine Otten is completely in thrall to the legend of The Last Poets...
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Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson @ Malvern Cube 5th May 2017 posted on 08 May 2017
Getting the current Poet Laureate along to mark the first collaboration between the Malvern Cub and the Malvern Book Co-Operative was quite a coup and this
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Memoirs of Hadrian posted on 07 May 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reviews 'Memoirs of Hadrian' and concludes that it is 'a Proustian triumph of imaginative historical writing'.
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Print them cheap and pile them high posted on 06 May 2017
When I first started buying books...
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Westbourne Bookshop, Bournemouth, Dorset posted on 05 May 2017
The Westbourne area of Bournemouth is a rather lovely part of town with a distinctive atmosphere ...
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The Slynx posted on 04 May 2017
The Slynx was published in 2003 in the US after its original release in Russia in 2000 and garnered almost universal praise...
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Dear Ijeawele posted on 03 May 2017
This is a little jewel of a book by the very readable award winning Nigerian author,
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The Crooked Book, Boscombe, Dorset posted on 02 May 2017
Located on the Christchurch Road in Boscombe – a long, long shopping street – Crooked Books is an entertaining mix of vintage shopping, café cum restaurant
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Communing with radical spirits posted on 01 May 2017
In the two or three days after Easter I was lucky enough to spend time in Bournemouth when spring was springing...