Inspiring Older Readers
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Edgar Wallace and the case of the Four Just Men posted on 29 Apr 2021
I recently listened to a Radio Four Extra programme in which crime novelist Mark Billingham reviewed the life and career of the prolific pulp...
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Goodbye, Columbus posted on 26 Apr 2021
A novella rather than a novel, Goodbye, Columbus was first published in The Paris Review ...
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The World In The Evening posted on 22 Apr 2021
,I’ve always felt a bit sorry for poor old Christopher Isherwood. His name always seems to get linked to, and live in the shadow of, W.H. Auden...
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Here is New York: E.B. White’s most famous essay posted on 19 Apr 2021
Guest writer, Alun Severn considers the most famous work of 'one of the twentieth century’s greatest essayists'
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Tropic of Cancer posted on 15 Apr 2021
It’s been over thirty years since I first read this book. I was astonished by it then and I have been astonished again this time around.
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Adventures of Hiram Holliday posted on 12 Apr 2021
The author of this rather charming fantasy was often fondly dismissive of his creation...........
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Milton and the English Revolution posted on 09 Apr 2021
Christopher Hill died at the ripe old age of 91 back in 2003 and it’s quite remarkable just how influential this Marxist historian was and still is...
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David’s Bookshop, Letchworth Garden City posted on 06 Apr 2021
David’s Bookshop, Letchworth Garden City
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Deadlock posted on 05 Apr 2021
This 1984 novel is Paretsky’s second outing for her sharp-edged, independent investigator, V.I. Warshawski
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Who? posted on 02 Apr 2021
Born in 1931 in what was then East Prussia, Budrys’ father was the Consul General of Lithuania ...