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What's Bred In The Bone by Robertson Davies. We are back in the company of most of the principal protagonists of The Rebel Angels , ind...

One of the things I noticed around the time of Little Richard's death a month or so ago was a proliferation of related articles in vari...

You'll recall my tentative wager on it being either bulb 5 or bulb 12 that bought the farm next in the kitchen; well in a salutary less...

We've recently acquired both an Amazon FireStick and a subscription to Disney+ in an attempt to broaden our kiddy-entertaining horizon...

A couple of things I meant to mention at the end of the Spares book review: firstly I see I mentioned in the Never Let Me Go review the si...

Spares by Michael Marshall Smith. Jack Randall has got a few problems. Ex-army, with a host of memories of the Bad Stuff, an on-off addictio...

Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin. Meet Detective Inspector John Rebus. He's a maverick cop, wha doesnae play bi the book , but, God ...

Very belatedly - even more belatedly than last year , it turns out - here's the post-Christmas whisky round-up. I was lucky enough to ge...

A couple of other thoughts in the wake of the House Of Leaves post: There is a bit in the acknowledgements page at the front of my copy o...

House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. Where to start? Well, let's start with Johnny Truant. As the desperately hip (and doubtless ...

Just a quick update on the kitchen light bulb situation, as I know you've been positively moist with anticipation . You'll recall I ...

Picture Palace by Paul Theroux. Maude Coffin Pratt is a photographer. Seventy-ish, she is semi-retired but currently assisting a younge...

Lanark by Alasdair Gray. Where do you start with a book like this? Well, it's subtitled "A Life In 4 Books" so obviously y...

Surface Detail by Iain M Banks. Life, as they say, is a bitch, and then you die. And then, if you're a prudent Culture citizen and h...