Inspiring Older Readers
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam posted on 01 Oct 2016
I know there are plenty of scholars who blanch at the mention of Edward FitzGerald’s ‘translation’ of the great Omar Khayyam
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Darkness At Noon posted on 29 Sep 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, rereads Arthur Koestler's anti-totalitarian masterpiece.
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The Graphic Language of Neville Brody posted on 28 Sep 2016
Born in 1957, Neville Brody can legitimately claim to have been one of the defining sensibilities of the 1980s cultural scene.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps posted on 25 Sep 2016
Buchan wrote his first thriller (or ‘shocker’ as he called them) in 1914 in something of a rush before the start of the Great War
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Echoes Of A Death posted on 24 Sep 2016
I never tire of reading Helene Hanff’s love letters to the booksellers of Marks & Co in her slim volume, 84 Charing Cross Road.
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Main Point Books, Edinburgh posted on 23 Sep 2016
Another book shop on West Point but for me the lesser of the clutch we visited.
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The Man With The Golden Arm posted on 21 Sep 2016
American novelist Nelson Algren is often referred to as the chronicler of underworld urban America..
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The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow posted on 20 Sep 2016
The adjective ‘breathtaking’ is sometimes over used to describe an art book
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An Interview With Moira McPartlin posted on 19 Sep 2016
An Interview With Moira McPartlin
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The Day the Music Died: A life lived behind the lens posted on 18 Sep 2016
I now realise just how much I took for granted in my late teens.