Inspiring Older Readers
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It Can’t Happen Here posted on 10 Nov 2024
Published in 1935 this novel sat around in relative obscurity until late last year ...
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Music Outside posted on 06 Nov 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes a journey into the British Jazz scene in the 1960s and 70s.
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Shakespeare’s Tragic Art posted on 04 Nov 2024
Stepping into the already crowded arena of Shakespeare studies must be a daunting task.
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Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children - that aren’t for children posted on 30 Oct 2024
Hillaire Belloc (1870 – 1953) was a French-English dual national who was by turns a writer, politician, critic, soldier and poet.
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The Man Who Wasn’t There posted on 27 Oct 2024
This is a slim, even cryptic novel of life in post-war, black and white Britain. 12 year old Colin has no father......
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Someone Like You posted on 23 Oct 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads 'Someone Like You' by Roald Dahl and discovers that it's a 'good bad book'
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Whisky Galore posted on 21 Oct 2024
1949 was a tremendous year for fans of Ealing Studio movies because it saw the release of three films ...
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Woodcuts posted on 15 Oct 2024
I am particularly fond of woodcuts as a method of illustration – they’re dramatic, often superbly expressive and devilishly difficult to do well.
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The History of Mr Polly posted on 14 Oct 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds that this Edwardian classic novel was his perfect read for the mood he was in.
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England Made Me posted on 09 Oct 2024
This is, I suspect, one of Greene’s lesser known (and less read?) novels – originally published in 1935