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Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Joe Bonham has just a vague inkling that something, somewhere, may have gone Badly Wrong. Drifting in ...

Notes From An Exhibition by Patrick Gale. Rachel Kelly is a painter, originally American but settled since her twenties in Cornwall ( Penza...

The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende. Welcome to a coyly-unnamed South American country, definitely not explicitly referred to as Chi...

I was prompted by the recent resumption of near-normal Test cricket in New Zealand, and in particular by the record-breaking feats of Kane ...

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...