Inspiring Older Readers
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Books posted on 01 Jan 2016
I suspect that most people will only know Larry McMurtry as a novelist and screen-writer. His early novel, Horseman, Pass By,
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The Rock Pack posted on 30 Dec 2015
Pop-up books are just for kids - right? Wrong.
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Walking Away posted on 28 Dec 2015
We saw Armitage talking about and reading extracts from this book at a Ledbury Poetry festival event earlier this year...
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The Wonder Boys posted on 28 Dec 2015
This is an out-of-control, bob-sleigh ride of a book that’s a blast from beginning to end.
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The Book Cover In The Weimar Republic posted on 27 Dec 2015
This is a BIG book - both it's physical size and it's scope is pretty daunting....
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My Family and Other Animals posted on 27 Dec 2015
When I was about 15, I was given a copy of The Harrap Book of Humorous Prose ...
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Comics helped to make me the man I am ( I think that’s a good thing....?) posted on 25 Dec 2015
When I think back to the Christmases of my childhood – actually into my very early teens – comic annuals are an ever-present and indispensible feature
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The Tender Hours of Twilight posted on 24 Dec 2015
Richard Seaver is a legend in the publishing and book editing world.
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Notes From The Sofa posted on 22 Dec 2015
This is Raymond Brigg's first new book for a decade - and it's not a children's book.
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Bedsit Disco Queen posted on 21 Dec 2015
The emergence of punk in 1976 changed the world for lots of unlikely people.