Inspiring Older Readers
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The Trick To Time posted on 17 May 2018
This Birmingham based author wove the Handsworth riots into the landscape of her first novel, My Name Is Leon......
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We are all Palestinians posted on 17 May 2018
We are pleased to present a new poem from Alan Gibbons
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George Orwell’s 1984 has been ‘pulped’ posted on 16 May 2018
I have to confess to a weakness I seem unable to overcome.
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Ingenious Pursuits posted on 15 May 2018
Could there be anyone better placed or more capable of writing a book that has as its core premise a challenge to the artificial division .....
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Rashomon and Other Stories posted on 10 May 2018
I suspect that for most people in the West, Rashomon is better known as a film directed by the hugely talented Akira Kurosawa...
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark posted on 09 May 2018
At first sight the book I have in front of me as I type this article looks unremarkable.
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Reason in Revolt posted on 07 May 2018
You have to admire the commitment and sheer chutzpah of Alan Gibbons.....
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The Naked Civil Servant posted on 06 May 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Quentin Crisp's controversial autobiography and finds it still challenges conventional attitudes
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Baby Lies posted on 05 May 2018
This is the fourth book in the successful Detective Tom Mariner series, a couple of which we have already reviewed ...
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The Nature of Passion posted on 04 May 2018
Jhabvala is probably best known for her Booker prize-winning novel, Heat and Dust, which explores the parallels between modern and colonial India...