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Outline by Rachel Cusk. Our narrator is on a plane, from London to Athens. It emerges that she is a writer, and is going to Athens for a few...

Family Album by Penelope Lively. Everyone assumes their own family is completely normal and typical and that everyone else's family is ...

The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. It's hard to let go, isn't it? Still harder to back down and admit you were wrong about...

As previously advertised here , I had plans to do a walk up Pen y Fan with Nia on Friday. There were only two things which could have stood ...

Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel. So, our protagonist, Thomas Cromwell, has achieved what his illustrious mentor Cardinal Wolsey could ...

So obviously with ankle rehabilitation progressing well and new boots ready to be tested it only remained to find an opportunity to go and ...

One thing you can certainly say about me, in addition to all the less palatable stuff about being fat, bald and malodorous, is that I am not...

Come with me, if you will, as we continue our magical journey into the ever more esoteric realms of Things That Sort Of Look A Bit Like Each...

The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Hardest game in the world, the old art restoration game. I mean, you want to avoid the obvious...

Eternity by Greg Bear. Strap yourselves into your ergonomically-moulded space-chair-o-pod, take a slurp of your rehydrated Soylent Green an...

In some ways it's hard to remember what "normal", pre-pandemic life was like, but if you concentrate hard enough I'm sure ...

A couple of further notes following the last three book posts: firstly while I'd had The Pope's Rhinoceros knocking around on my sh...

To Have And Have Not by Ernest Hemingway. Harry Morgan is a man. A man with a boat. A boat with many uses. The use that Harry wants to put i...