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Another men's golf major, two more additions to the list of record low rounds. You'll recall that that number has stood at 62 since ...

East Is East by TC Boyle. Hiro Tanaka has a bit of a problem. And his problem is this: he's currently plummeting from the deck of a carg...

Anyone been wondering: what's that lanky guy out of The Verve been doing for the last 20-odd years? No, me neither, and to be honest you...

You might recall my doomed attempts to remember some identifying details about some long-ago and dimly-remembered TV advertising tag lines ...

The latest victim of The Curse of Electric Halibut's relentless campaign of senseless slaughter is Paul Auster, who died yesterday aged...

You might recall, if you follow me on Twitter/X, and why in the name of God would you, that I have occasionally - as a twisted means of expr...

Masters weekend has just been and gone, and as usual provided some memorable golf as well as a few memorable incidents. I mean, nothing as...

The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Meet Tom Ripley. Well, actually, we don't need to do that as we've already met ...

Lila by Marilynne Robinson. A child is sitting on an exterior step, by the front door of a house, having been banished from the house. It...

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell. Our un-named narrator is a young boy on the cusp of his teens living with his father and sibl...

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Meet our narrator, Casaubon. Why is he called Casaubon? Or, more accurately, why has the author dec...

I have two for you today - now in theory I could parlay that into two posts in a pathetic and transparent bid to bump the blog stats up, pos...

You'll recall my frustration at being thwarted in my plans to do a long circular walk in the Black Mountains back in May of last year. ...

Been out for a couple of walks recently that seem worthy of note (hey, it's my blog) so here's the first. It was my birthday a coupl...