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Allow me to introduce my Great Kitchen Light Bulb Experiment. Our kitchen is lit by, among other things, twelve recessed spotlights in the c...

I must just publicly chastise myself here for forgetting the pretty significant name of Iain Banks from the list of deceased authors in my ...

Stoner by John Williams. So, just to manage your expectations here, this is not the story of some guy who stumbles round California in t...

Chalk up one more victim for my list of novelists who have been LITERALLY KILLED by my interest in their literary oeuvre -  Gabriel García ...

A three-way today: current Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy , my beardy friend Phil , and Fred the busker from the Julia Donaldson/Axel...

Don't Worry About The Government by Talking Heads in episode 2 of Zeitgeisters on Radio 4 on Saturday. The programme's subject, R...

O-Zone by Paul Theroux. There's been an apocalypse! Yeah , another one . This one seems to have been caused by the US government tr...

Here's a couple of good ones off the BBC website today. The first is a sort of crash blossom as previously featured here , here and her...

Couple of footnotes to the rather long Noah post : Ray Comfort's complaining about the film (among all the shameless promotion of hi...

Tricky times for Christian fundamentalists at the moment: what to make of the new Biblical epic Noah ? You might naïvely think that it woul...

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...