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Earthlight by Arthur C Clarke. It's two hundred or so years in the future and Earth is getting a bit crowded and, in any case, livin...

A Landing On The Sun by Michael Frayn. Jessel (no, not that one ) is a mid-ranking civil servant in some anonymous government departmen...

The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks. It's all ill wind, as they say, that blows nobody any good. Disasters in foreign countries, v...

Marathon Man by William Goldman. Thomas "Babe" Levy is a history student at Columbia University and an aspiring marathon runn...

In a sad echo of the fate of many polar explorers throughout history, the Shackleton has failed to survive the winter - or, to be strictl...

The Go-Between by LP Hartley. No, it's the old stripy orange Penguin version. Yes, that's right, went for three-and-a-half bob ...

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Ah, the Tudors . *tootly oboe music plays, jester prances around* We all think we know them, especially He...

Ronald Reagan once said that the most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to ...

I can't quite remember what got me into watching rock-climbing videos on YouTube - I suspect I might have followed a few links after inv...

So, Halloween, then. Source of much annoyance, some of it caused by pedants who insist that the word should have an apostrophe between the t...

We went on holiday to France back in July; our first proper trip abroad with the kids. We decided on France because it meant that we didn...

One of the slightly irritating features of Twitter is the tweets that pop up in your timeline flagged (in small type below) as "Promote...

The Ministry Of Fear by Graham Greene. Arthur Rowe has got a lot on. Despite being a man of seemingly modest but comfortable means (sus...