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Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson. We're in the Florida Keys - ah, you'll be saying, that's nice, lots of sun, some nice seafood, maybe...

A sporting one for you now - here's surprise Open Championship winner Brian Harman and former Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting ...

Over the course of the last couple of weeks I have, for various reasons and in the company of various combinations of my own children, watch...

Empire Of The Sun by JG Ballard. It's all right, living in Shanghai - nice weather, nice house, swimming pool out the back, chauffeur, ...

Hot on the heels of Cormac McCarthy's demise comes the death of Czech novelist Milan Kundera. Long-standing consumers of my ghoulish au...

During the vast aeons of time that (it seemed) Australian opener Usman Khawaja was batting during the first Test match of the current Ashes...

Last Bus To Woodstock by Colin Dexter.  Meet Morse. He's a maverick Detective Chief Inspector with a thirst for real ale, cryptic cross...

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 ...