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My younger daughter Alys' cuddly pig, which she calls Piggy but I call Alf, for reasons which are entirely mysterious to her (and may be...

The guy from Grant Wood's iconic painting American Gothic , who is supposed to represent some sort of archetypal Iowan farming type but ...

Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick. I dunno, you wait ages for a planet-scouring apocalypse and then two come along in successive book rev...

It's noodle-ordering time again, and I notice on a quick trawl back through noodle-related posts that I did a table a while back detai...

The Pesthouse by Jim Crace. We're in North America, probably a few hundred years in the future. Seasoned speculative fiction reader...

A quick follow-up to my last post in which I controversially claim that vast swathes of Eastern England do not exist - here is a very unsci...

I went to Northampton the day before New Year's Eve. Nothing so very remarkable about that, you might say, but you'd be wrong, for a...

The Folks That Live On The Hill by Kingsley Amis. Harry Caldecote has basically done all right for himself, in a low-key sort of way. A...

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck. O-OOOOOOH-KLAHOMA where the wind comes sweeping down the plain Where the wavin' wheat can ...

I spotted this on Twitter earlier today: This turns out to be from 2014, but I imagine the principal protagonist (who is from Taipei...

Well, it looks like the honeymoon period is over for our kitchen light bulbs. Hot (or rather non-incandescently cool) on the heels of bulb n...

I'm not sure what jogged my memory here, possibly Emma's recent post about last year 's Lakes trip , but it occurred to me that...

Bear Island by Alistair MacLean. The Morning Rose , a somewhat geriatric converted trawler, is steaming off into the Arctic Ocean with a...

In hindsight, one of the genuine high-water-marks of this blog in terms of excitement and red-hot bleeding-edge consumer affairs relevance w...

The husband of newly-installed White House religious advisor (and, it hardly needs to be said, frothing batshit lunatic ) Paula White, and ...

The Circle by Dave Eggers. Whoa , dude, Mae Holland is pretty stoked. She's just landed the job of her dreams at the Circle, an all...