Category: Inspiring Older Readers

Orwell: The Life

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Guest writer, Alun Severn considers the strengths and weaknesses of the multiple biographies of George Orwell – using D.J. Taylor’s Orwell: The Life

Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime Story

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I’ve recently been reading a number of crime stories reissued in the British Library Crime Classics series

If Cats Disappeared From The World

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The emergence of a younger generation of Japanese novelists who are now having their work translated into English has become a real feature

Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico & Cuba

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I want to start this brief review with a word of praise for Princeton University Press who have done us all a huge favour by finally publishing this collection

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

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Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads ‘I Never Promised You a Rose Garden’ by Joanne Greenberg, a novel of mental illness, of schizophrenia and psychosis

The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading

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A 600 page book about the ‘history of childhood reading’ might strike you as a pretty daunting thing to take on.

The Quarry

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I’ve previously reviewed two of the Swiss author’s novels and I came to The Quarry knowing that I should expect

The Lisbon Earthquake

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I must admit that I have had a very odd perspective on the terrible earthquake that all but destroyed Lisbon

The Lowlife

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Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads The Lowlife by Alexander Baron, a novel largely lost and forgotten until its recent reprint.

Used and Rare: Travels In The Book World

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I approached this book with the same mixture of fascination and trepidation I imagine a moth would have…….