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Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks. So there's this woman, erm ... * checks notes * ... Charlotte Gray. Daughter of a First World War v...

Today's pairing features my son Huw, in the pool at our holiday house in Brittany a couple of weeks ago and borrowing some of his big si...

One other thing, also tangentially book-related: we went to a family gathering last week and it was held in the Community Centre in the vi...

Just to illustrate the point about Shibumi , as fascinating and intermittently thrilling as it is, not being meant to be taken entirely seri...

Shibumi by Trevanian. Dangerous places, airports. Not only have you got to grapple with the unpalatable prospect of being strapped into a cl...

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd. Nicholas Dyer is an architect, currently engaged in the building of several churches in central London. He is hi...

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 ...