Category: Inspiring Older Readers

Ravilious: Submarine

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Guest reviewer, Alun Severn discovers the wider context that would lead to Ravilious’s astonishing portfolio of prints simply called Submarine

Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction

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I love it when a book comes along about a topic I’m already fascinated by but which then gives me a new perspective on it

The Yellow Wall Paper

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935) will almost certainly be a name more immediately recognised in her native USA than over here

Clayhanger

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Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads Arnold Bennett’s Clayhanger, a novel that rescues a small slice of Potteries society from the oblivion of history

Shakespeare’s Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts

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This is not a long book (130 pages or so) and despite its somewhat forbidding title, it’s written in a very accessible style

Who is that book for?

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I recently picked up my copy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, Treasure Island in the rather splendid Folio Society edition

Did It Happen?

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I’m not sure if everyone who spends an inordinate amount of time scouring second hand, charity and junk shops ….

Short Stories from the ‘Strand’

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It wasn’t until I picked up this rather elegantly produced collection of short stories culled from the pages of the periodical magazine

Blood & Guts: A short history of medicine

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I have written before on this site of my admiration for the writings of Roy Porter

James Joyce: a Political Life by Frank Callanan – an invitation to a reading project

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This article is something of a departure from the way we try and review new books here on the Letterpress site.