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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy. Binx Bolling is doing all right. Successful in his stockbroking business, nice little house in the New O...

This (via Pharyngula ) is absolutely tremendous: a new film (called, in slightly oh-what-a-giveaway style,  Let There Be Light   and starrin...

I know there's much speculation about the composition of the squad for the upcoming Ashes series in Australia, and England have a few he...

Last one on this topic, honest. The other thing worthy of mention in the box of old books was this one: Amazon Adventure by Willard Price...

Here's part two as promised. Another multi-part book series that I was well into in my formative years was Malcolm Saville 's Lone ...

Great excitement here at Halibut Towers this week as a trip to the loft to retrieve some supplies for the boy yielded the unexpected bonus ...

A few things that caught my eye in the last couple of weeks because they put me in mind of previous blog posts. Basically where Electric Hal...

Boneland by Alan Garner. Colin Whisterfield is a bit of a rum cove. Actually, that's Professor Colin Whisterfield to you, brilliant ...

Sweet Caress by William Boyd. Amory Clay has had a decent enough start in life, born into a pretty privileged upper-class family a few ...

We went on a brief holiday to Pembrokeshire a couple of weeks ago - a week in a cottage that I see from this post we'd previously stay...

Well, it had to happen sometime, and sure enough it eventually did on the Saturday of the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale when Brande...

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer. Mehring (we never find out his first name, as far as I know) is a middle-aged South African ind...

A coincidental (or IS IT ?) follow-up to the second half of the last post : my wife, who knows my penchant for chilli products well, bought...

I'm just about keeping my head above water blog-wise with the book reviews and the noting of notable things in the worlds of golf ,  lit...

Another major golf championship completed, and another round of 63 to report on. This one was at the US Open and was posted by Justin Thom...