Inspiring Older Readers
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An Interview with Rachel Finch posted on 14 Jul 2018
An Interview with Rachel Finch
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The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted posted on 13 Jul 2018
I must confess that I take as axiomatic that I'm likely to disagree with anything Donald Rumsfeld has to say.
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Classic Covers: Lord of the Flies posted on 12 Jul 2018
Classic Covers is an occasional appreciation of first edition book jackets from our own collection.
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Burning the Days posted on 12 Jul 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes on James Salter's memoir and finds himself haunted by the ghost of Ernest Hemingway
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An Interview with Alistair Moore posted on 11 Jul 2018
An Interview with Alastair Moore
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Meeting the celebrities down at the bookshop posted on 10 Jul 2018
The other day when I was searching a second hand book market site online looking for Luke Reinhart’s The Dice Man
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My First Seven Years (plus a few more) posted on 09 Jul 2018
The work of Dario Fo (1926 – 2016), Italian playwright, musician, left-wing political activist, artist and stage designer, is probably less well known than
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My Purple Scented Novel posted on 06 Jul 2018
Ian McEwan's sort story, My Purple Scented Novel, was originally published in The New Yorker in 2016 and has now been reprinted in a charming and arresting
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Uncommon Type posted on 05 Jul 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds that this collection of short stories by Tom Hanks is much more than a vanity project
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination posted on 02 Jul 2018
It’s almost impossible to imagine how any artist could accept a commission to illustrate the works of Edgar Allen Poe and not be influenced