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Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne. Phileas Fogg is having trouble with the domestic staff at his house. It's not, as y...

You might recall this fun bit of face-recognition software from a couple of years back that purported to tell you how old you looked. I was...

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 ...