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The opening bars of White Room by Cream over the opening moments of the Radio 4 adaptation of Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Ele...

Metroland by Julian Barnes. Chris and Toni are a couple of 16-year-old schoolboys in suburban early-1960s London. In addition to the usu...

Inspired by this quiz in the Guardian last week - which you should go and do first; I got a distinctly average 7/10, and that was aided by ...

Right, you know the drill by now, so no frills, here's the low-down: latest bulb to expire was bulb number 11, which went a week ago on...

Just a follow-up to the last post , with reference to the 1970s Bible-stories book in particular - you might say, well, as long as you set u...

I suppose there's an argument that Richard Dawkins provides a vital service for the rationalist community by acting as a sort of lightni...

Anyone reading the extraordinary weather predictions being made by the Daily Express late last week could have been forgiven for thinking ...

Fanny Hill or Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure by John Cleland. What is a bright, ambitious and, as it happens, comely and buxom young gi...

We've been on a couple of trips lately that have generated some photos, so this is mainly just somewhere to hang the links from. A few e...

More exciting developments with the kitchen lighting, so I hope you've got your Bulbsplosion Bingo cards handy. First to expire was bul...

The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine. Martin Nanther is a writer and, as Lord Nanther, a hereditary peer entitled to sit in the House of Lo...

We've been away for a week, and it appears that another few bulbs took this as their opportunity to say "goodbye, cruel world...

Great things are afoot - the first two bulbs from the sample group as featured in this post have gone phut and, indeed, kablooie. And alrea...

Those of you who have been keeping an eye on developments with the possible imminent exploding whale situation in Newfoundland should be ad...

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis. Elizabeth Harmon is just eight years old when both her parents are messily killed in a car cras...

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...