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The recently-concluded US Open at the Los Angeles Country Club followed, in some ways, a familiar pattern for recent major golf championship...

Temples Of Delight by Barbara Trapido. Alice Pilling's life is pretty good by most people's standards - comfortably-off parents, alb...

You'll recall how I, even now only dimly aware of the awesome and terrible power I wield via this blog, joked about how the recent death...

Dept. Of Speculation by Jenny Offill. There is a woman. A woman with no name. Well, presumably she has a name in her actual life (yes, yes,...

Literature and sport are all very well, you'll be saying, but what I really want is to stuff my big fat stupid face with some delicious...

A couple of updates on topics of regular interest (yes, all right, of interest to me anyway): firstly, following the review of Killing Miste...

Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen. Welcome to the south-west Florida coast. A constantly-shifting landscape of sandbars, mangrove ...

I'm a busy man, so it's rare for me to explicitly note authorial deaths here that aren't the direct result of my book-blogging a...

The last post was a bit of a downer, wasn't it? Failure, frustration, fuckery: the three Fs. Not what you want. So it's fortunate t...

Remember the heady days of Wills-&-Kate-mania, back before his face started going all weird ? Believe it or not that (i.e. their wedding...

Love Is Blind by William Boyd. Meet Brodie Moncur. He's a tuner. What, a large pelagic fish of the mackerel family? Well, no. This guy...

It's been something like eighteen months so here's another whisky post . The main items of interest among a very gratifying selecti...

My elder daughter, as befits a massive Harry Potter fan who has read the entire novel sequence about nine times and has many assorted items ...

Let's do another one, this time involving actual people rather than delicious items of breakfast pastry and birds of prey. Here's Ro...

It was Alys's birthday a couple of weeks ago, and Alys is a big fan of cute wildlife of all kinds, and owls in particular, so one of the...