Inspiring Older Readers
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Goodbye To All That posted on 03 Apr 2018
I should say from the outset that this is a review of the revised second edition of Graves’ autobiography that was released in 1957
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol posted on 02 Apr 2018
Arthur Wragg, Christian Socialist, pacifist, political campaigner and artist, provided the introduction to this copy of Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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The Flood posted on 31 Mar 2018
This is the first Maggie Gee novel I’ve read and it’s quite an experience – not, I confess, one without its problems.
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Can great novels ever survive the transition to a graphic format? posted on 29 Mar 2018
A little while ago I thought I should try to come to some kind of accommodation with the genre usually described as graphic novels.
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Hay Festival 2018 programme posted on 27 Mar 2018
The full programme for this year's Hay festival has now been published ...
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The 32 Stops posted on 27 Mar 2018
As a university lecturer I seem to spend a lot of time thinking how best to bring the issues of social and economic inequality to life for students.
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Ida Kar, Bohemian Photographer posted on 26 Mar 2018
Ida Kar (1908 – 1974) has come to be acknowledged as one of the true pioneers of photography as an art form..
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English Urbane and Irish Fizz at the Oxford Literary Festival posted on 24 Mar 2018
Our only trip to this year’s Oxford Literary festival was to see two literary heavyweights in rapid succession.
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The Aeneid of Virgil posted on 24 Mar 2018
I am pitifully ignorant when it comes to some of the major texts of the Classical world
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Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading posted on 22 Mar 2018
I've always enjoyed reading this author’s witty pieces in The Guardian and elsewhere but really became a fan when I discovered that she was an avid childre