Inspiring Older Readers
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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
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Pope and Dryden – don’t mess with the Mafia posted on 06 Oct 2024
In 1973 I was just entering my second year as an English Literature undergraduate at Bangor University
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The Strange Library posted on 01 Oct 2024
So another year slips past and once again, much to the chagrin and puzzlement of his fans, Haruki Murakami doesn’t get the Nobel prize for literature.
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Babbitt posted on 30 Sep 2024
Comparatively few novelists create a protagonist whose characteristics chime so perfectly with a social or economic phenomenon that the name enters ...
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The happy accidents of reading: Richard Ford, Saul Bellow, Martin Amis posted on 25 Sep 2024
Guest writer, Alun Severn gives us a privileged glimpse into what has shaped his reading over recent weeks.
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One for the collectors: Ulysses by James Joyce posted on 23 Sep 2024
I’m a huge admirer of James Joyce’s great novel, Ulysses and, because I was long ago incurably bitten by the collectors’ bug, I go out of my way ...