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The Children Of Dynmouth by William Trevor. We're in the sleepy Dorset village of Dynmouth, where all seems nice and placid and normal....

Here's the first new addition to the photo gallery - some pictures I took when we went up the big three Brecon Beacons peaks (Pen y Fan...

I'm very pleased to be able to announce that the photo gallery is back up and fully operational . I haven't had time to add any more...

I had to go over to my local Tesco to get some petrol earlier so I was able to have another interesting random mid-morning Radio 4 programmi...

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Susie Salmon is 14. And has been for a while. Because she's dead! Raped and murdered by a near-neighb...

Just in case you're unable to find a suitable outlet to express your feelings about the election result, or indeed anything else, here...

Our Lady Of The Forest by David Guterson. Ann Holmes has had a problematic adolescence - repeatedly raped and eventually impregnated by her...

My ongoing whisky odyssey takes me to Islay, or in a more literal sense Waitrose , where I popped in on the way back from my Black Mountain...

It's been a giddying week: hot on the heels of Star Wars Day and Cinco De Mayo we now have the rather more sobering prospect of a gene...

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. There's a Gore Vidal quote on the back of my Vintage edition of this book which says: Of all tasks...

Johann Hari in The Independent with an excellent reminder of some of the actual scary policy nuts and bolts behind the weirdly smooth blem...

Obscure annoyance of the day: snooker. Not snooker in general; obviously I'm as snooker loopy as the next bloke, and I've been enjo...

The always diverting Strange Maps triggered my Ooh Ooh I've Been There alarm this morning with this post featuring a napkin from The ...

Much excellent hilarity to be had in the reactions to the complete non-story about some Friday afternoon e-mail prankery among junior civil...

My excellent and attentive web hosting provider assures me that my photo gallery will be back up and running literally Any Day Now. I'...

Anyone regularly leaving the M5 at junction 16 as I do will know that there is currently a certain amount of seemingly purposeless digging ...

Continuing my New Year's resolution to make it to more music gigs , we went to see Cerys Matthews in concert last week. I was never tha...

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Mikael Blomkvist is in a bit of a spot. He's just lost a libel case after publishing ...

Here's a bit of unexpected good news: the British Chiropractic Association have dropped their libel case against Simon Singh . This is...

More election-themed stuff to come soon, probably, but for the moment here's just a quick tip of the hat to the Independent 's John ...