Inspiring Older Readers
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Three Banners of China posted on 31 May 2016
French photographer, Marc Riboud, is approaching 93 years of age and he can look back on a photographic career ...
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Edna O'Brien @ Hay Literary Festival posted on 31 May 2016
30th May 2016 was a lovely hot day and the Letterpress Project was in Hay to see the great Edna O'Brien.
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Play Dead posted on 30 May 2016
A guest post by Newman University student, Aaminah Rauf
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Utz posted on 29 May 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, introduces us to Bruce Chatwin's " tiny, fiercely imagined tragic masterpiece.".
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Stroud Bookshop, Stroud posted on 29 May 2016
Situated on the main High Street in Stroud, this is a small, independent bookshop that uses its limited space very well.
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The archaeology of working class writing : Part Three – Ralph Bates posted on 28 May 2016
Here’s a quiz question for you – name three famous people from Swindon.
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Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet posted on 25 May 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, enjoys a book about the Takacs String Quartet and its interpretation of Beethoven's music
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Cheltenham Rare Books : Revisited posted on 21 May 2016
We first visited Cheltenham Rare Books back in November 2015 when they were just setting up their business and we promised we would go back
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High Fidelity posted on 21 May 2016
Hornby’s book was first published in 1995 and there were plenty of lazy critics at the time who said its popularity was down to the fact that it...
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Paris Mon Amour posted on 19 May 2016
The romance of Paris rather passed me by on the one occasion I visited it.