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I caught an episode of Danny Baker's Rockin' Decades a week or two ago on BBC4, always a good place for the occasional unexpected i...

One of the many fascinating things about Riddley Walker is the little map at the front of the book which makes sense of some of the corrupt...

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. It's 2000-2500 years after some unspecified nuclear disaster occurred in the vicinity of Canterbur...

You might recall my post about lifts from a few years back, and the embedded link to this fascinating New Yorker article on the same subj...

A Sport And A Pastime by James Salter. It's the mid-1960s, and there's not much for young American men to do while mooching aro...

So it's RIP Pete Seeger , folk pioneer, political campaigner, environmental activist and the late Kirsty MacColl 's step-half-uncle....

It was Burns Night again last night, so I concocted another haggis-based recipe . Why not just go for the traditional haggis, bashed neep...

Remember my local barber? The one just down the road bearing the punningly chucklesome name of Herr Kutz? Well, despite my fears for its co...

Waiting For Sunrise by William Boyd. It's 1913, and young actor Lysander Rief is, along with a whole host of other famous or soon-...

Just a quick follow-up to the Kallis post - I'll try and keep it brief, as the fraction of my already minuscule blog readership that ha...

As predicted, the accuracy and relevance of my statistical data-mining in the last cricket-related post have been rapidly overtaken by even...

Hot on the heels of the revelations of my distant claim to the Stapledon millions comes even more exciting news: following an exchange of e...

Here, then, extremely belatedly, is the promised second footnote to the Last And First Men book review. This one is about Olaf Stapledon h...

Actress and star (along with Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal) of 1987 film Throw Momma From The Train Anne Ramsey, and crime author (of The ...

So here's another annual tradition - the post-Christmas whisky round-up. I'm pleased to say that my relatives and in-laws have now...

Here's the obligatory (and yet strangely unnecessary) annual statistical micro-analysis of my reading and blogging habits. General blog...

I took my father out for a post-Christmas walk earlier today to clear a bit of the tryptophan and saturated fat from the artery walls. Noth...

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf. It's the mid-19th century, and we're in north-eastern Australia. Lachlan Beattie and his t...