Inspiring Older Readers
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The Flanders Panel posted on 15 Jun 2020
Sandwiched between the truly excellent, Fencing Master in 1988 and his most famous novel, The Club Dumas of 1993....
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The Lost Books of Jane Austen posted on 12 Jun 2020
OK. Full disclosure. I can’t abide the novels of Jane Austen.
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The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress posted on 09 Jun 2020
Beryl’s last novel, unfinished at her death in 2010 but tidied-up for posthumous publication by her editor, is still vintage Bainbridge.
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The Radetzky March posted on 05 Jun 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds The Radetzky March is "a bleak but beautiful book whose real subjects..are dissolution and mortality".
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The Child posted on 02 Jun 2020
Guest reviewer, Yushra Fatima finds herself riveted by the chilling tale of a child serial-killer...
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A Room Full of Toys posted on 31 May 2020
I think if I tried to compile a league table of the downright weirdest books I own......
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Death in Venice posted on 28 May 2020
As the Covid-19 virus rampages around the world and we’re effectively confined to our houses...
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Reading in strange times: Oxfordshire, Shetland or Bloomsbury? posted on 25 May 2020
You might wonder what the connection is between these three very different settings for novels.
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Rereading Atonement (and more) posted on 22 May 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn rereads what is possibly Ian McEwan's most famous novel
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Terrible Honesty posted on 18 May 2020
Ann Douglas is Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and Special Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia ...