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Today's theory, which is not about the brontosaurus , starts now and proceeds thusly: devoid of context it is almost impossible to dist...

The Curse Of Electric Halibut strikes again! (DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL STAB, MASSIVE RUMBLE OF THUNDER, ECHOEY MANIACAL CACKLING) This time it...

Here's one for the file of What Does Any Of This Even Mean headline-parsing challenges : In order to have any chance of understa...

Transition by Iain Banks. Imagine a world where every toss of a coin, every tiny variation in some seemingly insignificant system, res...

Here's one in commemoration of the Ashes series which kicked off yesterday: England opener Rory Burns and his (I think) relatively newly...

You'll recall my celebration of the atavistic urge to draw cocks (preferably with all spunk coming out the end) on things: walls, hill...

Here's another one for the Slightly Sinister Weird Shit Concealed By Seemingly Innocuous Labelling Practices files. I buy quite a lot o...

Another quick follow-up to a previous post: Nutshell brings to six the number of Ian McEwan books I've read and reviewed for this blog...

One final  Lake District holiday -related anecdote: during the trip we did a certain amount of sitting around drinking wine, as you'd e...

Nutshell by Ian McEwan. They did a bad, bad thing . Well, strictly speaking they haven't done it yet, but plans are afoot for Trudy ...

Just a quick round-up of a few other bits relating to our Lake District holiday a couple of months ago; a belated follow-up, to put it anoth...

A quick follow-up to the last book post: The End Of Vandalism is, I think, the first book I've read since this book-slash-map-related p...

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...