Frostquake
Juliet Nicolson, the granddaughter of the famous literary critic, Harold Nicolson and daughter of Nigel Nicholson, the publisher…
Category: Inspiring Older Readers
Thinking Through Shakespeare
There can be no other area of literary study that is richer and more copiously stocked than the body of of critical appreciation …
A Wreath for Udomo
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads A Wreath for Udomo by Peter Abrahams, a writer and a lifelong activist against apartheid and colonial oppression
No Jacket Required
Collectors can be a funny (peculiar) bunch of people.
Booked To Die
In my experience as a reader, putting together a convincing detective yarn that incorporates books and bibliophiles is not an easy task…
Bog People
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn explores the world of folk horror in ‘Bog People’ edited by Hollie Starling
Writing Timbuktu: The book in West African history
As a young boy growing up in the UK during the Fifties and Sixties, the idea of a place called Timbuktu was both exotic and mysterious.
Points and Lines
I’ve written before about my admiration for the detective fiction of Seichō Matsumoto
Working the Room
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn tries to work out why the enigmatic Geoff Dyer can be so appealing
Dante Called You Beatrice
It’s hard to come to any other conclusion than that the life of the minor poet, Paul Potts (1911 – 1990) was rather a sad one.