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Just catching up with a couple of authorial deaths that I'd missed during the second quarter of 2025. You can't afford to take your ...

The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner. Joe Allston is a mostly-retired literary agent, settling slightly cantankerously into old age in rur...

One thing I did find myself occasionally doing while reading Dalva is referring to the Northridge family tree to remind myself which of the...

Dalva by Jim Harrison. Let's meet our main character, who is called *checks notes* Dalva. She's forty-five and living in California...

It seems that Adriano Celentano's 1972 single  Prisencolinensinainciusol is the advert music of choice at the moment, as I've seen...

Time for a deep dive into the world of shoes; my shoes in particular. I have no authority to speak for or about anyone else's shoes, nor...

The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser. G'day, mate. Welcome to Australia. Land of Fosters , Castlemaine XXX , kangaroos, Shane Warne and all ...

Rabbit Redux by John Updike. Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is in his mid-thirties, living with his wife, Janice, and their teenage son,...

A couple of unstructured thoughts after returning from a long weekend at Center Parcs with the family. Firstly that "with the family...

Kudos by Rachel Cusk. We are back in the company of our nearly-anonymous narrator from Outline and Transit . I say "nearly" beca...

Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford. We're in Woolworth's. I mean, back when Woolworth's was a thing, and therefore being in one...