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Singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright and comic actress Sally Phillips. Pictures carefully chosen as they only really look alike when they...

Our Kind Of Traitor by John le Carré. Perry Makepeace and Gail Perkins have got precious little to complain about, on the face of it. H...

Quick follow-up on a couple of earlier posts: I should have mentioned during the Pride And Prejudice review that this is another book tha...

A couple of photo galleries to catch up on from various recent travels: Firstly, we went to an owl sanctuary for my Dad's birthday. N...

It seems like BBC presenters are queuing up to bombard viewers with a fusillade of c-bombs at the moment. Hot on the heels of John Inverdale...

Never mind all that stuff about books and golf , you'll be saying, we haven't had a shoes news update for a while. And you're ...

In the wake of the thrilling climax to The Open Championship, here's a short list of reasons why we should cherish 2015 champion Zach ...

Solaris by Stanisław Lem. Kris Kelvin, a psychologist, has been assigned an unusual mission: travel through the vastness of space to th...

Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen. Well, this is awkward. You'll recall my listing a whole catalogue of 19th-century classics tha...

Yet another appearance for Led Zeppelin's Good Times Bad Times , this time at the start of a montage of trickery in Dynamo: Magician I...

My excuse for largely ignoring Father's Day up to now has been: well, its falling on the third Sunday in June means it's never more...

Here's a Headline Of The Day for you, on the face of it an utterly inconsequential showbiz story about two people who may once have bee...

You'll have been wondering, after the last post documenting the senseless slaughter of another author, how potent the juju I evidently ...

I caught most of episode 3 (of 3 - episodes 1 and 2 are here and here ) of How To Be Bohemian on BBC Four last night, presented by the lov...

The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban. Herman Orff is a writer. Of novels, in theory, but having published two to very little in the wa...

It is now increasingly obvious that having one of your books featured in what I obviously should have been calling The Electric Halibrary f...

My recollection of my drinking exploits on my own wedding day are mainly of being bought a succession of pints - mainly of the excellent Kin...

I'll tell you what really grinds my gears : yeah, that's right, potato waffles. I know they may be waffly versatile and all, and mo...

A couple of loosely-coupled trains of thought: I caught a bit of the discussion on Radio 4's Start The Week this morning, another of th...

Not That Sort Of Girl by Mary Wesley. Rose Peel has made a good, sensible marriage to Ned, a man with money, land, prospects, all that ...