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In these febrile and uncertain times, a man likes to be able to fall back on certain, well, certainties - the depressing ones like death and...

As unpleasant as the outbreak described in The Plague was, it seems to have been a fairly small and localised outbreak by historical standa...

The Plague by Albert Camus. Welcome to Oran , on the north coast of Algeria. Hot, isn't it? But you can always have a dip in the sea, a...

been in a tent for quite a bit of the last week so seem to have missed that #RobbieRobertson has died. this is a nice version of his most f...

Time And Again by Jack Finney. Simon ("Si") Morley is in a bit of a rut. Dissatisfied with his job as a commercial artist (mostly...

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...