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As either a belated Christmas present or an early joint birthday present (their birthdays are only a week apart) our girls recently acquired...

Here's another example (from the Daily Mail ) of a phenomenon you might call "subject slippage" or something similar - a bit ...

The Savage Wedding by Yann Queffélec. Nicole is the daughter of the village baker somewhere in provincial France. She's nearly fourt...

Another author who died recently - though not as a result of the Curse of Electric Halibut as none of his books have featured in this list ...

If there's one thing that unites the octogenarian and nonagenarian novelists of the world, it's grasping Electric Halibut beseeching...

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 ...