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I was entertained for a couple of hours on Twitter (on X, if you musk, I mean must) yesterday by some increasingly lurid speculation about ...

You'll recall I made some scornful references to my general disinclination towards "checking exhaustively" and the like in my ...

The Tiger In The Smoke by Margery Allingham. Meg Elginbrodde has just received a couple of photographs of her husband, supposedly taken qui...

Is it just me who has trouble parsing this headline I saw the other day? OK, so let's start at the beginning: "I'm a Wimbledon ...

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson. Kumiko Yanaka is just like any normal teenager, really: Snapchatting, squeezing spots, being hastily...

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...