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In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason. Saigon ... shit . Western Kentucky ... also a bit shit, as it happens, though in different ways. Having bee...

A few things of note from our camping trip to Buckinghamshire last week. Firstly, yes, all right, I am forced to concede that Buckinghamshir...

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Patrick Bateman has it pretty good, all things considered - lucrative job doing something mysterious ...

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...