Inspiring Older Readers
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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.
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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