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The End Of Vandalism by Tom Drury. We're in some loosely-identified mid-west location (generally accepted to be Iowa , though I don...

There was nothing more inevitable than Jeremy Hunt's throwing his hat into the ring at the Tory leadership election resulting in yet mo...

A couple of thoughts on the death of Judith Kerr , venerable (she was 95) and celebrated children's author and illustrator: If you had...

Beloved by Toni Morrison. Sethe has had a tough life, as pretty much anyone in her circumstances - poor, black, female - would have don...

We went on another week-long holiday to the Lake District last week, of a very similar format to the one we took around the same time last y...

Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami. Our un-named narrator is a writer, though seemingly unburdened by the need to find regular work t...

Belatedly, here's the post-Christmas whisky round-up. And a bumper year it was too, featuring some of the old favourites like Jura , Hig...

I'm not sure how I ended up watching this hour-long compilation of Welsh tries - possibly residual enthusiasm after our glorious comple...

It's a cliché, of course, but now that the vast majority of the time my work doesn't require me to dress up like an utter nincompoop...

We've expanded the scope of the lookeylikey posts lately to include things like islands and tubes of effervescent  tablets , so it wa...

The Glittering Prizes by Frederic Raphael. University, eh? Well, we've all been there. Well, not literally all of us, though number...

This is a bit of an echo of a long-ago lookeylikey post about bald people; I want to make it clear that I'm trying to do something a bi...

One of the reasons I don't do as much blogging as I used to, in addition to the various reasons already mentioned elsewhere, is that t...

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...