Category: Inspiring Older Readers

The Other Side

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The Other Side was Austrian artist, Alfred Kubin’s (1877 – 1959) only novel.

The Poison Belt

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Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) is now so closely associated with his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes ….

The Collected Dorothy Parker

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Guest reviewer, Alun Severn tries to understand the fluctuating reputation of Dorothy Parker

Elephant and other stories

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Over my long years as a compulsive reader, one genre that I’ve always struggled to fully appreciate is the short story

Two novels by Jacques Chessex

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Alun Severn reads two short novels by the Swiss novelist Jacques Chessex is another of the writers The Vampire of Ropraz, and A Jew Must Die

The Surprising Story of Penguin Illustrated Classics

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I’ve grown up as a reader with the presence of Penguin Books as a constant, even reassuring, backdrop.

The Master of Go

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In 1938, Kawabata was commissioned by the Mainichi newspaper corporation to cover what turned out to be a marathon game of Go

Veilchenfeld

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Guest reviewer, Alun Severn makes the case for Gert Hofmann’s 1986 novel Veilchenfeld to be considered a key piece of Holocaust literature

Mrs. Bridge

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I can’t help but think of Evan Connell Jnr. (1924 – 2013) as a rather unfortunate writer

Stoner

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How does a novel become a ‘hidden gem’ or ‘cult classic’? It’s a status that can probably be endlessly debated …