Inspiring Older Readers
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Orbital posted on 19 Feb 2025
I’ve rather got out of the habit of automatically reading the Booker Prize winner every year
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Rereading Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost posted on 17 Feb 2025
Guest writer, Alun Severn reassesses Philip Roth's 'Exit Ghost' and suggests this difficult book shouldn't deter admirers of his other later work
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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.