Inspiring Older Readers
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The Eastgate Bookshop, Warwick posted on 10 Jan 2016
I'm very fond of this shop in Smith Street and I've been visiting it on a regular basis for a number of years now.
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A Place Called Winter posted on 08 Jan 2016
Warning: it’s really difficult to review this book without detail that some people might construe as a ‘spoiler’.
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A Clergyman's Daughter posted on 05 Jan 2016
Quite a lot of critics are pretty sniffy about Orwell’s skills as a novelist. I can understand why...
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A New Book Year Ahead posted on 04 Jan 2016
I’m not the kind of person who makes New Year resolutions – I leave that stuff to people who think they’ll stick to them.
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Oxford Literary Festival 2016 posted on 04 Jan 2016
The initial line-up for the 20th Oxford Literary Festival has been announced - but expect it to be added to in the coming months
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Penguin Designer Classics posted on 03 Jan 2016
Back in 2006 Penguin Books commissioned five leading contemporary designers to produce new covers for classic titles.
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The British Heart Foundation Books and Music Shop, Cheltenham posted on 03 Jan 2016
This smallish shop can be found in Winchcombe Street in Cheltenham, just off the main shopping drag.
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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...