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So as I coyly alluded to in the previous post , the appearance of an Anita Shreve book in this list often marks a key moment in its history...

Strange Fits Of Passion by Anita Shreve. Mary Amesbury has just moved into a rented house up on the Maine coast with her baby daughter Caro...

Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks. Ah, Earth. You can keep all your exotic worlds populated by giant sentient slugs and super-intelligent sha...

The large number of photographs of Italian footballer Salvatore "Toto" Schillaci on the internet this week, in the aftermath of hi...

The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø. Meet Harry Hole. He's a maverick cop, who doesn't play by the - hang on *checks notes* ah, I see...

A couple of further thoughts prompted by having a look through my new (well, new to me, anyway) copy of the Morris Marples book. Firstly, a ...

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...