Inspiring Older Readers
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The Heart in Winter posted on 12 Feb 2025
Every now and then a book comes along that stops you in your tracks ...
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I Am Legend posted on 08 Feb 2025
Richard Matheson’s sci-fi / horror hybrid has become something of a classic and is cited by many authors – Stephen King included....
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On Elizabeth Bishop posted on 05 Feb 2025
If, like me you’ve had the chance to see and hear Colm Tóibín talk about his writing and those writers he admires...
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying posted on 02 Feb 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn returns to George Orwell's 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' - novel the author himself disliked.
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Three Assassins posted on 29 Jan 2025
Back in the summer months of 2024, I read and reviewed Isaka’s Bullet Train and I found it a heady, helter-skelter ride
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The Study: The inner life of Renaissance Libraries posted on 27 Jan 2025
For those of you coming to this review and perhaps wondering what Andrew Hui’s book is about, I can’t do better than quote the author himself
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A Thousand Feasts posted on 23 Jan 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn is beguiled by the occasional writing of Nigel Slater
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George Orwell writing "Nineteen Eighty-Four" on the island of Jura posted on 20 Jan 2025
The 25th January 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the death of George Orwell.
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Hokusai: A Life in Drawing posted on 16 Jan 2025
Katsushika Hokusai (1760 – 1849) has become one of the few instantly recognised Japanese artists here in the West...
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Thomas Kyd: A Dramatist Restored posted on 12 Jan 2025
This is a book full of passion, scholarship and controversy - controversy both confronted and generated by the author