Inspiring Older Readers
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Voices on the Green posted on 22 Jan 2021
In 1944 as the Second World War was still raging, the editors of this anthology decided the time was ripe for a fund-raising project...
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Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & the London Painters posted on 18 Jan 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Martin Gayford's masterly assessment of the London art scene of the 20th century.
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The Broken Root posted on 15 Jan 2021
Spanish journalist, Arturo Barea was a Republican sympathiser who found himself in self-imposed exile after the Franco regime seized power..
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The Madman’s Library posted on 12 Jan 2021
Brooke-Hitching is a rare book collector and the son of an antiquarian book dealer but he also writes for the television programme, QI ....
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The Voice posted on 08 Jan 2021
When Gabriel Okara died in 2019, his obituaries talked of him in terms of being the single most important writer on the modern Nigerian literary scene
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Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley Books posted on 04 Jan 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn immerses himself in Patricia Highsmith's 'Ripliad' and especially enjoys 'Ripley's Game'.
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Inferno by Dante, illustrated by William Blake posted on 03 Jan 2021
I was intrigued the other day to see that the Sky Arts television channel was running a programme entitled ‘Dante’s Creation of Hell’.
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Bookshop Tours of Britain posted on 22 Dec 2020
My personal fantasy is to organise a tour of the USA, hopping from bookshop to bookshop...
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A Private Cathedral posted on 21 Dec 2020
Despite the author’s advancing age and rumours that each novel will be his last, there actually seems to be no sign that his creative juices are drying up
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Desert Island Books posted on 19 Dec 2020
During the various lockdowns of 2020 I’ve found myself listening to (far too much) Radio 4 Extra ...