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If you read the Wikipedia page for Giovanni's Room you'll see that there is a reference to it appearing on a list of "100 bes...

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. David is an American in Paris in the 1950s, just mooching around doing not very much, and with no ap...

Cast your mind back, if you will, to (roughly) this time three years ago, when we'd just moved house and were sifting through the mount...

This is some tremendously nerdy fun - you know those signs you get on low bridges to tell you that you, a lorry driver, are about to unzip ...

The Red Queen by Matt Ridley.  Subtitled Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature , this is a book primarily concerned with *checks notes* se...

A couple of follow-ups (follows-up, if you must) to the Lost Man's River review: firstly I alluded to it having taken quite a long time...

Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen. We're back in Florida. Not this guy , but instead the south-easternmost state of the USA, da...

All right, let's do a quick whisky post. Wife and one child are away and I've got a quiet evening at home so what better way to cap ...

There's something that's been bothering me for a while, and I think it's probably time to give it an airing here. There's no...

Another example of the slightly counter-productive effect of prissily asterisk-ing out relatively innocuous words from news articles - here...

I tweeted a photo of my bookshelves the other day, after doing the painstaking up-shuffling of everything to incorporate the various books ...

I assume literally everybody had a go at making some sort of bread during the COVID-19 lockdown, right? There was a whole subculture (no pun...

Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban. William G. (not this guy , just to be clear) is a quiet unassuming type of guy; lives alone in a flat in a s...

Following on from my complaints (reasonable I think) about printing and/or binding errors in previous books on this list - Bluesman , Lolita...

A Question Of Upbringing by Anthony Powell. Ah, schooldays. It doesn't take much for one's mind to be cast back there: the endless ...