Inspiring Older Readers
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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.
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Front Cover : Great Book Jacket and Cover Design posted on 17 May 2016
One of the great, unacknowledged art forms of the 20th century is the book jacket.
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Fabian posted on 16 May 2016
I suspect that Erich Kästner is best known in the UK as the author of the children’s classic Emile and the Detectives
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Why had I never heard of Francisco Amighetti? posted on 15 May 2016
I would consider that I have a more than average interest in all kinds of art – especially mid-twentieth century painting
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Spring Cleaning posted on 15 May 2016
Back in February the 'Clear Out Your Bookcase' campaign caught my eye but I was so deep in Winter gloom that I didn't really take too much notice
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man posted on 12 May 2016
A guest review from Alun Severn in which he reassesses Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - and finds he has some issues with it.
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Draycott Books, Chipping Camden posted on 09 May 2016
Draycott Books really feels like the archetypal traditional second-hand bookshop.
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The Dumas Club posted on 08 May 2016
I wonder how many people who are familiar with the Johnny Depp / Roman Polanski movie collaboration called The Ninth Gate...