Inspiring Older Readers
-
The House of Doors posted on 28 Jan 2024
This is a novel that is complex, literary, multi-layered and magnetically readable.
-
The Midnight Washerwoman and other tales of Lower Brittany posted on 24 Jan 2024
For most us, stories come in formats that allow us to constantly revisit them in the medium in which they were originally created.
-
Cherrywood Cannon posted on 21 Jan 2024
It is remarkable how few illustrated books in recent times – picture books if you will – are produced for an adult readership.
-
Le Grande Meaulnes posted on 17 Jan 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds that Le Grand Meaulnes may be flawed but the mounting sense of tragic loss that pervades it is beautifully realised.
-
The Stepford Wives posted on 14 Jan 2024
It’s a tribute to both Ira Levin’s novel and to the ubiquitous popularity of the 1975 movie adaptation directed by Brian Forbes...
-
Sexing the Cherry posted on 10 Jan 2024
I have a vivid memory of buying this novel from Waterstones in Birmingham when it was first released in 1989...
-
Running aground with The Essex Serpent posted on 04 Jan 2024
If, like me, you are a ‘chain-reader' moving seamlessly from book at book, you’ll be aware of the distress that comes with the failure to find the ‘right’
-
Reflections from a Bookshop Window posted on 03 Jan 2024
Published in 1994, Clive Linklater’s Reflections from a Bookshop Window feels like the precursor of what has become a somewhat cliched format ..
-
The Woman in Black posted on 01 Jan 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn returns to discover Susan Hill's classic ghost story is a Christmas cracker
-
The Deductions of Col. Gore posted on 20 Dec 2023
As I noted in my previously published review of his novel, Nightmare, Lynn Brock was the pseudonym of Irish playwright, Alexander Patrick McAllister.