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Even in the festive season the roving and merciless eye of The Curse Of Electric Halibut is seeking out fresh victims, and its latest victi...

A couple of observations following the last book review: firstly that this post that you're reading now breaks a sequence of five consec...

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. Quoyle's woyfe is voyle, and she's been cheating on him in spectacular stoyle for quoyte a wh...

Call For The Dead by John le Carré. George Smiley's wife has left him. This has become a pretty routine occurrence by the time of some ...

Thud! by Terry Pratchett. Sam Vimes just wants a quiet life. Not easy when you're the chief of the City Watch (the police force, essent...

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 ...