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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. Larry Cook is an Iowa farmer, who's built up and expanded the farm he inherited from his father an...

More Sigur Rós, this time during the opening moments of  The Living Mountain: A Cairngorms Journey on BBC Four earlier this evening. Remark...

Not much to add to this , really: - except to commend the nice deadpan tone of the article in Wigan Today describing the original inci...

Tonight's randomly-inspired music list of the day goes a little bit like this: the CD format gives recording companies a nice round blan...

The Redeemer by Jo Nesbø. Stop me if you've heard this one before , but: Harry Hole is an uncompromising maverick Norwegian cop. ...

I'm a sucker for a book list, as you know, so when I came across this list of foreign novels YOU MUST READ in the Independent this wee...

As anyone who knows me will be tired of hearing by now, my daughter is utterly amazing and captivating and a joy to spend time with, not to...

How many of you have browsed my Twitter timeline and thought to yourselves: hey, this is a bit like bloody poetry or something? That's ...

A couple of follow-up notes about that last book review: firstly I should point out the odd coincidence whereby the narratives of both Birds...

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Stephen Wraysford is a bit of a typical English cold fish, but he's been given an ideal opportunity to...

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...