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One of the things that will have been a major factor in determining the specific flavour of your COVID-19 lockdown experience, it seems to m...

Today's pair is Nadia Whittome , Labour MP for Nottingham East, and Mexican artist Frida Kahlo . Most pictures of Kahlo have a rather se...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré. George Smiley is in a bit of a rut. He's in enforced early retirement from MI6 (colloquiall...

Today's pair are our literal actual Lord and Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, and Hollywood actor Chris Evans.  A couple of footnotes:...

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Oh, Mexico ; it sounds so sweet with the sun sinking low. Well, Harrison Shepherd isn't here on holid...

Today it's Theresa May's former chief of staff, advisor and election strategist Nick Timothy, and Bridget McCluskey's former c...

Here's a supplementary item to add to yesterday 's Mystery Object round, and it's another one you might want to wash your hands ...

Here's another lockdown jaunt in the Newport area: having pretty much exhausted the supply of green spaces accessible on foot from the ...

Relentlessly monotonic electrobore with occasional tuneful moments Gary Numan, and relentlessly  tedious contrarian with occasional stopp...

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...