Inspiring Older Readers
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Hide & Seek posted on 07 Jan 2017
Go into any bookshop and you’ll almost certainly find that they have a section of the shelving dedicated to ‘crime’
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All The Pretty Horses posted on 05 Jan 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn considers what is possibly the finest novel by one of America's greatest living authors.
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Fossgate Books, York posted on 04 Jan 2017
Fossgate used to be a thriving bookshop community until market forces and floods combined to slim down their numbers.
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Charles Dickens 1812-1870 : A biography, with examples of the work his finest illustrators posted on 01 Jan 2017
This is a genuinely curious and fascinating book produced in 1962
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Titus Groan posted on 01 Jan 2017
Writing in an article carried by The Guardian newspaper in 2014, novelist Marcus Sedgwick waxed lyrical about his love for Mervyn Peake
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Ken Spelman Books, York posted on 30 Dec 2016
You'll find Ken Spelman Booksellers in Micklegate which I think must be a pretty trendy part of York ...
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From Roald Dahl to Alan Garner posted on 30 Dec 2016
Yesterday evening I spent time with Michael Peach, an elderly retired architect who lives in a splendid Hobbit- like house ...
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Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart posted on 29 Dec 2016
I guess that all obsessives have their iconic destinations
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Whit posted on 28 Dec 2016
Prior to his untimely death from an aggressive cancer in 2013, I would make a point of trying to read any new releases by Iain Banks ..
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Foot Loose and Fancy Free posted on 27 Dec 2016
There can’t be many people who don’t allow themselves the occasional fantasy about what they would do if time and money was no object.