I feel like I’ve fallen at the first hurdle of this book blogging malarkey. The formula is simple, right? Read…
Firstly, excuse the lack of a ‘Happy New Year’ greeting. It’s just been announced that the UK is back in…
I’m going to abandon my current read. Blue Remembered Earth, by Alastair Reynolds, will be added to the rather short…
Some farmers in Cornwall were still using threshing machines, a precursor of the combine harvester, when my dad was young.…
Stuart Turton was facing a mammoth task when he sat down to write his second book. It was a labour…
ENTRY FOR THE TWELFTH DAY OF THE TENTH MONTH IN THE YEAR IN WHICH I READ PIRANESI Piranesi is a…
The other night I had a tweet that was met with what was, for me, a large reaction. Like most…
I’ve become more moderate as I’ve gotten older. I don’t necessarily mean politically, although that is part of it, but…
Once upon a time, a young boy (who then grew into an old boy and then, paradoxically, a young man)…