Inspiring Older Readers
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The Plague (Le Peste) posted on 24 Jun 2016
When the rats start to leave the cellars and sewers and drop dead, the population of Oran in Algeria is puzzled but not unduly upset
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An Interview With Chris Collett posted on 23 Jun 2016
An interview with Chris Collett
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It's all writ out for you: the art of Scottie Wilson posted on 22 Jun 2016
There's nothing I love more than stumbling across a book I didn't know existed
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Fear in the classroom: reading Lord of the Flies posted on 21 Jun 2016
Another in the series of occasional pieces about books that have had an important part in creating my reading identity.
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The Hare With Amber Eyes posted on 20 Jun 2016
Alun Severn has been rereading Edmund de Waal’s remarkable book, The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
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Letterpress @ Exeter College, Exeter posted on 19 Jun 2016
Karen Argent, the Letterpress Project Director, took a wide selection of picture books to show to students
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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold posted on 18 Jun 2016
I remember quite clearly the first time I read this book when I was at university in Bangor, North Wales
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But You Did Not Come Back posted on 17 Jun 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, examines a short but compelling Holocaust memoir
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The Berlin of George Grosz : Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1912 - 1930 posted on 17 Jun 2016
Troubled times breed troubled and troubling artists.
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On Rereading posted on 13 Jun 2016
Guest writer, Alun Severn, considers the pleasures of returning to books read in his youth....