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It seems like an age ago that David Bowie , Glenn Frey and Prince died in fairly quick succession, although it was in fact just under thre...

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The Reverend John Ames is in his mid-seventies and nearing the end of his life (he has some unspecified he...

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima. Noboru is a pretty normal thirteen-year-old boy. Well, it's a difficu...

I'm very conscious that we've done a run of pretty much exclusively book -related posts for a while now, and that this one is no dif...

The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. What ho, Jeeves! Hardest game in the world , the old butlering game. Having to be on top of ...

I caught an episode of Open Book on Radio 4 in the car the other day, featuring the lovely Mariella Frostrup and including (at about 7:40 i...

Just trawling through a couple of book-related end-of-year round-ups and I see that I missed a couple of victims of the ongoing Curse Of E...

They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell. We're somewhere in Illinois in early 1918. We're also, in the first section of the ...

It occurs to me that I didn't do a Christmas-related post in 2018, so in the spirit of this music-related one from 2015 (but at conside...

Three in pretty quick succession earlier today which seemed like a blog-worthy thing. And they are: The Funeral by Band Of Horses in the ...

Orphans Of The Sky by Robert A Heinlein. Hugh Hoyland and his chums lead a decent enough life: enough to eat, a bit of light-hearted kn...

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...