Inspiring Older Readers
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Among The Bohemians: Experiments in living 1900 - 1939 posted on 20 Aug 2016
This must be one of the most disappointing books I’ve read for some time.
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Ragged Banners posted on 18 Aug 2016
This novel was published in 1931 and could only really have been written in the friable atmosphere of those inter-war years.
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What makes a good author interview? posted on 18 Aug 2016
I’ve just come back from Edinburgh where I was privileged to be at one of the literature festival’s first author interviews
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I went to the corner shop for some butter posted on 15 Aug 2016
Novelist, Alan Gibbons, discovers that sometimes it's just the little things that can drive you to distraction
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Dispatches posted on 14 Aug 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads Michael Herr's 'Dispatches' - a classic of war reportage.
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An Interview With Kevin Cowdall posted on 11 Aug 2016
An Interview With Kevin Cowdall
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The Black Cloud posted on 11 Aug 2016
Just imagine that it's a cold, wet Sunday afternoon in January and all you want is something on television to settle down and watch.
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Confessions of an Eavesdropper posted on 11 Aug 2016
As you might imagine, I spend a lot of my time looking at books in the children's sections of bookshops ...
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Rolling Stone: Images of Rock and Roll posted on 10 Aug 2016
Rolling Stone is something of an American institution ....
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Love Letters On Blue Paper posted on 09 Aug 2016
The great Arnold Wesker died in April of this year and future readers will almost certainly get to know his work as a dramatist