Inspiring Older Readers
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Bookish: How reading shapes our lives posted on 09 Apr 2025
I can’t give an exact date for when books - reading them, collecting them, hunting them down - first came into my life
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The first time I’ve read……. Alistair MacLean posted on 06 Apr 2025
I recently resolved to (occasionally) read authors who are astonishingly popular
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Billy Bathgate posted on 31 Mar 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow Doctorow and serves to remind us of what an extraordinary craftsman was.
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A Visit to Grandpa’s and other stories posted on 27 Mar 2025
I always think it’s a shame that the short stories Dylan Thomas wrote are so often eclipsed by his dazzling poetry
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Destination Unknown posted on 23 Mar 2025
Christie’s name has become so indelibly associated with the ‘cosy crime’ genre she virtually defined ...
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The Path to the Spiders’ Nests posted on 19 Mar 2025
Writer, journalist and literary critic, Italo Calvino (1923 – 1985) is perhaps most associated with that generation of post-war European public intellectua
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Who Killed My Father posted on 17 Mar 2025
When I picked up this slim book, I have to be honest and confess that the young French author, Édouard Louis was a new name to me,
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Up the Junction posted on 13 Mar 2025
Just as with Dunn’s first full-length novel, Poor Cow, Up the Junction, which came along four years earlier in 1963...
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Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul posted on 10 Mar 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn enjoys H.G. Wells' social satire of Edwardian lower-middle-class aspiration
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Prater Violet posted on 04 Mar 2025
This novella ( it’s only a touch over a hundred pages long) packs a deceptive amount between its covers.