Inspiring Older Readers
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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
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Bad ‘bad books’ posted on 05 Jan 2025
Many people will be familiar with G.K. Chesterton’s notion of a ‘good bad book’ which George Orwell spun into a wonderful essay
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The Divine Comedy posted on 01 Jan 2025
If you are thinking that 2025 might be the year in which you finally take on some of those great pieces of literature ...
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Time Come: Selected Prose posted on 18 Dec 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads journalism, essays and talks by a great dub-lyricist, cultural and political activist and reggae musician
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Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich posted on 15 Dec 2024
I’d be willing to bet that even the vast majority of those who profess never to read will have heard of Penguin Books as a brand.
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Down and Out in Paris and London posted on 11 Dec 2024
In 1933, Down and Out in Paris and London was Orwell’s first full-length book
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Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography posted on 08 Dec 2024
I think you’d be hard-pushed to think of a literary classic whose reputation has taken such a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs...
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A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time posted on 04 Dec 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reviews the reissue of two memoirs by Richard Kennedy
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Thatcher Stole My Trousers posted on 01 Dec 2024
There’s plenty to choose from when it comes to naming things that are emblematic of the dismal state of popular culture in the first half of the 1970s