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I'm always up for a bit of pedantry about grammar and word usage, and like everyone else I have my own personal line in the sand regar...

Couple of follow-up thoughts after the Free Fall review the other day: Among the gazillion other awards given to Lord Of The Flies , it a...

Free Fall by William Golding. Samuel Mountjoy is a respected and established artist, but, well, it's not all been glamorous exhibit...

I suppose you might argue that if you voluntarily submit yourself to the hive of scum and villainy that is Matalan , you deserve everything...

Here's an interesting article listing 75 great Welsh pubs . Inevitably this prompts a bit of trainspottery box-ticking in the mind of so...

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...