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As I've said before , I'm not big on desserts, but this was recommended to me by the wife of a good friend of mine who makes cakes ...

Here's a little insight into what I'm shortly to present to the Nobel committee as supporting evidence for my bid for the Nobel Pri...

Here's a list in similar vein to a couple of previous ones: basically a list of some interesting stuff that popped up during a random ...

The Birthday Boys  by Beryl Bainbridge. I say, you fellows, here's a ripping idea I've just had: let's go and conquer the So...

I caught a bit on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning about the possible health dangers posed by the quaint habit train companies ...

Jefferson Airplane 's 1967 single White Rabbit , one of the most perfect little psychedelic pop/rock nuggets ever recorded, advertising ...

This is a bit late, but, well, it's been Christmas and New Year and I've been a bit busy with various festive shenanigans, as I expe...

Just a quick ugly ill-thought-out splurge to express my revulsion and outrage at the Charlie Hebdo massacre earlier today . I really just h...

Two things occurred to me on reading this Independent article about French novelist Michel Houellebecq 's latest successful trolling of...

Inverted World by Christopher Priest. Helward Mann, is, well, a man. A man who lives in a city. Nothing so very unusual about that, you...

Happy New Year, everyone. Let's kick off 2015 in style with some kitchen light bulb updates. You'll recall that after the last round...

Turbulence by Giles Foden. Henry Meadows is a meteorologist, and in the brief sections of the book set in the "present", he...

The Book Of Ebenezer Le Page by GB Edwards. Ebenezer Le Page is an irascible old codger, as he himself tells us in the opening couple of ...

Nuclear-powered immaculately coiffured weirdly unlined futuristic sexbot Gigolo Joe , as played by Jude Law in A.I. Artificial Intelligence ...

The recent publication of the CIA torture report and the accompanying media brouhaha is extremely interesting in itself; almost more inter...

As with at least one earlier post , this is intended as much as a point of future reference for me as a source of great interest or exciteme...

We love a book list here at Electric Halibut, as you'll know from previous posts on the subject, so here's a couple that have come ...

I was inspired by the children's TV theme the other day to remember the post that I'd meant to do in the wake of this one a few mo...

It's not all your high-falutin' gender politics, post-modernism, literary criticism and improvised contemporary dance round here; I...