Inspiring Older Readers
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The Great Fire posted on 10 Feb 2020
It’s a bit of a cliché to call an author ‘a writers writer’ but in the case of Australian novelist, Shirley Hazzard, it’s a phrase I think is fully
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Breakfast with Lucian: A Portrait of the Artist posted on 07 Feb 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds himself both fascinated and a little repelled by an intimate glimpse into the life of Lucian Freud.
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The Graduate posted on 03 Feb 2020
Benjamin Braddock is 21, he’s a brilliant student, he’s just graduated and he finds himself unable to come to terms with the seeming hollowness ...
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The Truth about Murder posted on 31 Jan 2020
It is always a treat to find a captivating crime novel to devour over a couple of lazy days.
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A Walk On The Wild Side posted on 28 Jan 2020
Nelson Algren (1909 – 1981) is probably best known as a novelist of the world of the outsider...
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Orlando posted on 25 Jan 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Virginia Woolf's experimental novel which meditates on the nature of identity and passion
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Lie With Me posted on 23 Jan 2020
Philippe Besson is big news in France and has a quite prolific twenty or so books to his name.
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality posted on 20 Jan 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Peter Pomerantsev's latest exposé of the impact of new technologies on the old-fashioned art of propaganda
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre posted on 17 Jan 2020
The real identity of the author who wrote under the pen name of B. Traven is one of literature’s great mysteries.
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Grieder meets the Maharajah posted on 14 Jan 2020
We found this 1969 publication in a charity shop and we took it away partly because of the striking illustrations ...