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Just a couple of further cricketing nuggets: it is of course true that the India team England have just brutally trampled into submission ...

You'll all have your own opinions on Bellgate™ , I'm sure; for what it's worth I think sanity and what you might call natural ju...

It's just a small, footling and frankly petty and small-minded gripe, but it bothered me at the time, so in the spirit of full disclosur...

Do you own a rucksack? I know you do ; everyone does. I myself probably own half a dozen or so, of varying shapes and sizes and with a varyi...

I've noticed a bit of a flurry of sea monster stories in the Daily Mail recently, and by "a flurry" I mean "two": t...

Still a few whisky matters to take care of, so here's an idea: let's have a sort of Celebrity Death Match and do two at once. Here...

I suppose it is a bit like harpooning a walrus in a bathtub , spearing an elephant seal in a wash-basin, torpedoing a manatee in a paddling ...

It's amusing translation manglings day here at Halibut Towers - firstly here's an e-mail I got the other day. Similar to a lot of th...

Much hilarity is to be found in the story of Niko Alm , the Austrian atheist who has won the right to be pictured on his driving licence wit...

A Case Of Lone Star by Kinky Friedman. The old Elmore Leonard/box of chocolates metaphor works just as well with the Kinkster 's oeuvr...

You'll remember my attempts to wrestle the garden at our old house from an impenetrable jungle with pterodactyls nesting in it into a ...

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson. So, here we are again , erm, again . At the end of The Girl Who Played With Fir...

The Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle. Or T. Coraghessan Boyle, as he was still calling himself when this was published in 1995 (before the othe...

Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner. Edith Hope, writer of romantic fiction "under a more thrusting name", has come to the eponymous l...

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. Harriet Dufresnes is just like any other normal twelve-year-old growing up in a small Mississippi town. W...

In these changing and uncertain times, it's good to know that there are certain things that are constant, unchanging and reliable. Like ...

Another music-related public service announcement , offered in the hope that it may be of use: you may, one day, find yourself in the positi...

Having scoffingly questioned Brian Haw 's commitment to the cause when I visited Parliament Square the other week and found him conspic...