Inspiring Older Readers
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Spike Island posted on 25 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads Philip Hoare's history of 'the extraordinary quarter-mile long neo-gothic Royal Victoria Military Hospital'
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An Interview With Kerry Hadley-Pryce posted on 24 Feb 2017
An Interview With Kerry Hadley-Pryce
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We All Sleep Under The Same Stars posted on 24 Feb 2017
This booklet, produced by The Letterpress Project includes poems and illustrations produced by Year 6 Pupils and responses to the poems..
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Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt and other poems posted on 23 Feb 2017
My time spent in punk music venues in the second half of the 1970s produced a number of moments I'll never forget.
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Wouldn't you like to be a librarian? posted on 22 Feb 2017
I've lost count of the number of people who have asked me this over the years.
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To Exercise Our Talents : The democratization of writing in Britain posted on 21 Feb 2017
This is one of those very rare things – a book that is both a remarkable piece of literary research and an accessible and enjoyable read.
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The Book of Tea posted on 19 Feb 2017
When I was a child in the late 1950s and early 1960s one of the few things we thought we knew about the mysterious East ..
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Hospice Journeys posted on 19 Feb 2017
I always enjoy talking about books with patients and staff at St Richards Hospice in Worcester.
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Beast posted on 17 Feb 2017
For a slim book of only 160 pages this is a physically and emotionally exhausting read.
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Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud posted on 15 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads about what it's like sitting for a legend of twentieth century painting