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Spiderweb by Penelope Lively. Stella Brentwood is a social anthropologist, so she's spent her whole professional life observing people, ...

When I saw Chris Ashton score his third try against Italy during the last round of Six Nations matches a couple of weeks ago, I thought to m...

My Ántonia by Willa Cather. Some novels grab you by the throat from the moment you read the blurb on the back cover. Hermaphrodite human-al...

Here's a few links that may be of interest from our weekend in Exmoor: we stayed at the Lorna Doone Hotel in Porlock, which in addition...

Never let it be said that I don't know how to show a lady a good time. Since the lovely Hazel is currently on a diet, and therefore the ...

Just a quick footnote to the last post : Russell Miller's 1987 Hubbard biography Bare-Faced Messiah is hard to get hold of in physical...

Further opportunities for chuckly fun at the expense of idiots and/or arseholes can be found in the current amusing spat between the New ...

The Fermata by Nicholson Baker. Arno Strine is a 35-year-old office temp. So he's not made as much of his life as he might have done, y...

Well, I've certainly been getting my gloats this week. It's been like a big steaming bowl of natural gloatmeal, or possibly a double...

Evidently there's a bit of rivalry going on between the various current affairs shows broadcast by the BBC, as illustrated by Jeremy Pax...

All this food and booze and books nonsense is all very well, you're saying, but what about the real issues? Like, for instance, what...

Until I Find You by John Irving. There are certain things you know you're going to get with a John Irving novel: one of them (usually ...

I took advantage of some free time yesterday to decant this year's fruity gin - I had some sloes and some damsons so I decided, rather t...

Just to illustrate the problem with the drugs "debate", here's a Daily Mail article from this week following the broadcast ...

It did of course go spectacularly tits up eventually , but I suppose you might say that the last government at least started off with the ...

A quick addition to the Christmas whisky post : I did also buy a bottle for myself, just as a reward to me , for being me , since it was one...

What better time to deliver on my implied promise/threat of another haggis recipe than on Burns Night ? Well, the morning after Burns Night...

I have had a bit of a pop at the current state of the venerable BBC science magazine Horizon in the past , and I stand by most of that, bu...

It's old news now, as it apparently happened back in July 2010, but is anyone else mildly alarmed at the news that former US Vice-Presid...

Here's a couple of crash blossoms for you, carefully harvested from today's news headlines: So.....the kid is so pissed off after b...