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The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting by Milan Kundera. Before we go any further here, one should pause to ask: what exactly is a novel? ...

Nice to see that in addition to the Daily Mail the list of people monitoring this blog for ideas includes BBC Four, who evidently decided t...

Your very own Won't Get Fooled Again in the early stages of Channel 5's  The Best of Bad TV: The 70s . You can pretty much imagine ...

A couple of religion-related stories in the news around Easter (so a few weeks ago now, but y'know, sue me, I've been busy), occupyi...

As a further tribute to Prince , here's a two-item music list for you: songs which start, do the basic tune for a bit, then have a sort ...

As I said at the time of the deaths of David Bowie and Glenn Frey earlier in 2016 (a year which statistically is exceptionally celebrity-d...

Ragtime by EL Doctorow. It's New York City (and its environs) in the first decade-and-a-half of the 20th century - so if there were ...

Here's a curious coincidence: no sooner do I speculate on the relative merits of furious spin-bike training and furious self-abuse tha...

It's time to address the sensitive subject of my weight. No, no, don't try to fob me off with all that "weight? are you mad?...

It was Nia's birthday today, so we went to Bristol Zoo for a day out. All good fun and Nia had a fine time including getting her face p...

The day in question being yesterday, actually, but I'm a busy man and I can't always leap into blogging action at the drop of a dang...

A couple of follow-up thoughts after the last book review , mostly relating to my battered old Penguin paperback copy of Under The Volcano ...

Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. Geoffrey Firmin, British ex-consul of a town in Mexico, is in one of its bars at 7am on the Day Of ...

Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble, kill off writers at the double. Hot on the heels (and upturned toes) of Umberto Eco , the latest (and, unl...

Here's a rather magnificent addition to the dubbed-for-TV swearing files as previously noted here and expertly satirised here - this i...

Bear with me once again as I indulge my fondness for map-related trivia. Here's an interesting little website that uses data from the ...

I got the train and bus into work this morning, something I used to do every day but now only do when there's a specific reason to. That...

Recoil in horror, readers, as the Electric Halibut LIIIIIIBRARY OF DEEEEEEAAAAATH claims another victim. This time it's Italian polymath...