What the Grown-Ups Were Doing by Michele Hanson – review
Michele Hanson's good-humoured memoir sheds light on life for a nice Jewish girl in the 1950sAnyone who can make us laugh at old age is bound to be good company. Michele Hanson's weekly Guardian column, "A Certain Age", keeps us smiling wryly at her li...
Favourite book festival moments: Joan Bakewell
In the latest of our regular series of guest posts by writers and critics, Joan Bakewell reflects on the urgency of big ideasDebate is always popular and so it proved. But no one could have anticipated such variety of style and ideas. Having been asked...
Crazy Age by Jane Miller | Book review
Joan Bakewell salutes a warm-hearted look at the pleasures of old ageThe old are increasingly coming under attack. As if it weren't enough to be threatened by the grim reaper, we have to suffer the assaults of David Willetts, whose book The Pinch accus...
