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Climbers by M. John Harrison. Mike is a young-ish guy living in the Greater Manchester area (he has a house in Stalybridge for most of the...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Lemuel Gulliver is a ship's surgeon, travelling the world dispensing late-17th-century medica...

Another weekend, another walking trip to explore some green areas within a 20-minute walk of our house, another Newport park to add to the l...

This seems at first glance like it fits into the lookeylikey category, but strictly it doesn't as I'm very confident these are lite...

One thing you notice if you spend a significant amount of time in the company of CBeebies , as I do, is that there are people who seem to be...

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household. Our unnamed narrator has been a bit of a silly boy. Not content with the life of a slightly bored upper-c...

So this is basically The Lockdown Diaries part 2, part 1 being the preamble to the last post of 2020 which actually turned out to be the us...

It's nice to see poor old Jeremy Hunt finally catching a break and someone else stepping into the breach to get called a cunt on bro...

 A couple of footnotes from yesterday's book review : Other books in this series whose action takes place principally in India are Midni...

The Siege Of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell. We're in India, in 1857. Nice enough country, India, if it wasn't for the bally natives, w...

Well, here we are at the end of another year, one which has, on balance, sucked ass most egregiously for an exceptionally large number of pe...

A couple of further notes on that Scottish trip, as my memory has now been jogged by looking at the photo gallery , and as I don't seem ...

You will of course remember this post from 2012 and my breathless excitement at having spotted an interesting Google Maps anomaly, somethin...