Inspiring Older Readers

A New Book Year Ahead posted on 31 Dec 2025

I’m not the kind of person who makes New Year resolutions – I leave that stuff to people who think they’ll stick to them.

Pope and Dryden – don’t mess with the Mafia posted on 06 Oct 2024

In 1973 I was just entering my second year as an English Literature undergraduate at Bangor University

What Reading Means To Me posted on 13 Jun 2019

In a guest contribution, author, Kevin Cowdall writes about the endless possibilities a reading life provides...

Caring For The Careworn: Sad-Faced Boy posted on 04 Sep 2018

If you are a book collector or you are in the process of building up your own personal library, you may have looked for advice.....

Charlie Brown, Snoopy and all that crew posted on 11 Apr 2018

I’m a fan of the prickly, contentious, provocative Joe Queenan and I will often go to his columns to find an entertaining, dissenting voice

Cast adrift in a bookless wilderness posted on 12 Mar 2018

Weekends are special to me because they are the time I ring-fence for finding books and we try to get out as widely as we can..

Books Do Furnish A Room? posted on 04 Feb 2018

There are moments in life when looking after your books has to take priority over actually reading them.

Homeward Bound (without a book to read) posted on 23 Jan 2018

I usually have something to keep me busy when I am travelling by train but the other day I found myself at a loose end...

A Book-lover in Katmandu posted on 05 Jan 2018

This article originally appeared in the 2016 Letterpress Project publication 'Bookshop Memories Revisited'

The surprising Boris Vian posted on 18 Dec 2017

I recently did a review of James Campbell’s engagingly readable book, Paris Interzone which profiled the city as a literary hub for European and self-exile