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The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks. There comes a time in every major civilisation's life when you sit back and think: hey, we've ...

Further to the international border talk in the previous post , go back to the start and zoom in on the map in the original tweet and you...

Here's another post inspired by some initial exchanges over on Twitter - it also shares a theme with this earlier post about imaginary...

A couple of things that came up recently over in the Twitterverse which perhaps warrant mentioning at slightly greater length here: firstly ...

Shuttlecock by Graham Swift. Prentis (we never find out his first name) has a slightly mysterious job as a senior clerk in a murky governmen...

Breath by Tim Winton. Bruce Pike and his best mate Ivan Loon (Pikelet and Loonie to their friends, who basically comprise each other) are a...

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. Richard Hannay is the right sort of chap; our sort of chap. Resourceful, tough, cool head in a crisis...

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy. Dwight Bleichert, known to everyone as Bucky because of the size of his, erm, dental appendages , is one ...

Time for the end-of-year book and general blogging stats round-up. If asked to characterise 2021 in general terms I would probably respond b...

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...