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Endless Night by Agatha Christie.  Mike Rogers is a little bit WHOOOAAA, a little bit WHEEEYYY; he is, in short, a geezer . Well, perhaps t...

I can't remember how I came across this video featuring former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic (among others, including Soundgarden gu...

I find myself oddly uncomfortable with some of the fulsome tributes to Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, who died a couple of weeks ago. Not ...

The Lyre Of Orpheus by Robertson Davies. Meet the Cornish family and their assorted friends and hangers-on. Well, hang on, actually we don...

Speedboat by Renata Adler. Jen Fain is, we gather, a journalist, working primarily in New York. I say "we gather" because there...

Yes, it's esoteric cricket records and factoids time again. Is that in tribute to the climactic stages of the 2023 Cricket World Cup ...

Here's a bit of random fun: you'll probably have all seen one or more of the various internet things that attempt to categorise put...

Here is the whisky news. And the whisky news is: I've run out of whisky! Yes, the bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label that I've be...

Transit by Rachel Cusk. We are back in the company of the protagonist of Outline . Or, rather, not really in her company, since one of the ...

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. War - war is stupid ; and people are stupid. Just a few of the thoughts that pass through the mind of Inm...

I see I didn't do a stats update in the wake of Europe's demoralising defeat in the 2021 Ryder Cup, so I guess a catch-up is in orde...

All That Follows by Jim Crace. Leonard Lessing is a jazz saxophonist. Pretty cool, right, only he's more of a former/lapsed jazz saxoph...

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...