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I had those Jehovah's Witnesses round the house again a couple of days ago, a scant six years after their last visit . This particular ...

The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies. So here we are at the college of St. John and the Holy Ghost, affectionately known by its deniz...

As I'm sure most of you know, Twitter, in addition to being a hive of scum and villainy, has its own little unwritten rules and points o...

I don't do many of these Goddy posts any more (a paltry four in the whole of 2016, though to be fair there weren't that many posts ...

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. Our unnamed protagonist ( again !) is a young woman working as an illustrator in the city who returns to h...

Leader of the Labour Party and thereby Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition Jeremy Corbyn, and the Wise Old Elf from the splen...

Brief upfollowage on a couple of recent (and not so recent) blog items: my linking to the Not The Nine O'Clock News That's Life ...

Well, so there I was, chortling to myself at how Richard Adams' death had nothing to do with me when the Grim Reaper decided to issue ...

I feel as if I should write something brief to mark the death (at a pretty respectable 96) of Richard Adams , if only to exonerate my own b...

Pilgermann by Russell Hoban. There have, regrettably, been quite a few times during human history when it's been tricky and/or downr...

Here's another one for the slightly esoteric category People Who You Would Have Been Mildly Surprised To Discover Were Still Alive Had ...

Attempt, if you will, to parse this gem from the BBC News website today: Corpse sex kill threat man gets 45 years . So who was making the ...

Smashing Pumpkins' Bullet With Butterfly Wings on the new trailer for WWI-themed first-person massacre-fest Battlefield 1 . Previous t...

Almost exactly thirteen months after complaining that it'd been almost exactly thirteen months since the last whisky post, here's an...

Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo. Zeno Cosini is a middle-aged businessman from Trieste attending a psychoanalyst in order to give ...

Hunky square-jawed hero Eric's manservant (no, stop it ) from Disney's The Little Mermaid , the Ladybird tie-in book of which is one...

So, farewell, then, William Trevor . Alas, we hardly knew ye, cut down in the prime of life at a mere 88 years old by this blog's conti...

Here's a sort of global version of the UK-only surname distribution tool - stick your surname in here and you'll get some indicati...