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Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks. Meet Sharrow. She only has the one name because she is a Proper Lady, descendant of a noble fami...

Here's an odd thing I noticed yesterday which I surely can't have been the first person to question, and which I'm mildly surpri...

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...