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Here's a few plot spoilers to ruin the viewing experience for you should you decide to go and see the new film of The Girl With The Dra...

Old School by Tobias Wolff. Our unnamned narrator is a student at a prestigious American public school - or, rather, what the Americans wou...

Come Dance With Me by Russell Hoban. Christabel Alderton, 54, is the singer with aging goth-rock stalwarts Mobile Mortuary. Elias Newman, 6...

I'm sure you recall with as much nostalgic affection as I do the old days of bartering, where you'd build a dry-stone wall for someo...

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. David and Harriet Lovatt aren't one of your groovy modern couples. They're a bit staid, a bit old...

And now the mystery object round. So, mother and youngest child only : what's this? I ask because I found it in my loft while I was cle...

You know that thing that some people have whereby they take a kind of perverse pride in not reading novels? There's a bit in Sideways ...

The Gathering by Anne Enright. Ah, bejaysus. It's not all Guinness and hurling over in Ireland, you know - there's a dark side to a...

More whisky now, as I've acquired a couple more bottles since last time . Firstly, here's the AnCnoc 12-year old, which I bought a ...

Here's a couple more gems from my inbox, of varying degrees of length, generosity and bewilderingness. Firstly this one: I offer you the...

Well, I don't know, you do your best to make your little corner of the blogosphere a brighter place, and this is the thanks you get: Act...

My brief dalliance with mid-20th century African history and politics in the last book post , as well as the interesting old bits of paper p...

Much upheaval at Halibut Towers over the last few weeks, some planned, some not. More of that at tedious and unnecessary length later, but f...

There was an interesting article on the BBC website the other day about David Duval, one of my favourite golfers and a man whose recent tri...

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I've seen this little quote in various places, mostly unattributed - this link attributes ...

A couple of brief supplementary bits after the last post : We went to a few pubs in Edinburgh, most notably the excellent Abbotsford on Ros...

Here's a few links to some recent batches of photos that may or may not be of interest: Firstly, and rather belatedly, some photos from ...

Any form of social change which proceeds by little baby steps (as most of them do) will tend to be largely invisible to those participating ...

We went to the Cowbridge Food Festival today, always a reliable source of tempting yet expensive gourmet items. Today's haul (pictured...

The Very Model Of A Man by Howard Jacobson. A good story has a beginning, a middle and an end, they say. And this one has a beginning, all ...