Inspiring Older Readers
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No Country for Old Men posted on 23 Apr 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reappraises a Cormac McCarthy novel that leaves him feeling "that the book doesn’t quite work"
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Appointment in Samarra posted on 20 Apr 2019
O’Hara is another example of an author whose identity and reputation has gradually slipped off the front page...
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After the Fire posted on 19 Apr 2019
Frederic Welin is a seventy year old retired doctor who lives alone on an island in the Swedish archipelago.
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Nightmare Abbey posted on 17 Apr 2019
I think that any list of once popular but now almost completely neglected authors would require the inclusion of Thomas Love Peacock.
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Rereading Don DeLillo’s Underworld posted on 15 Apr 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn tackles a contender for the title of 'The Great American Novel'
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Classic Covers: The Wall by John Hersey posted on 12 Apr 2019
I don’t think I’d lose too much money on betting that most readers of this article wont have read John Hersey’s 1950 novel, The Wall.
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Tolkien’s Gown & Other Stories of Great and Rare Books posted on 10 Apr 2019
For book collectors or anyone interested in second hand and antiquarian books, Rick Gekoski probably needs no introduction.
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Bridport Old Books posted on 09 Apr 2019
Bridport Old Books I was delighted to visit this long established second hand and antiquarian bookshop which opens six days of every week.
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High Street posted on 08 Apr 2019
Guest writer, Alun Severn considers the exquisite charm of the pre-chain store High Street as imagined by Richards and Ravilious
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142 Strand posted on 07 Apr 2019
One of my favourite poems of all time is Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach. It’s a deeply moving and elegiac contemplation...