Hope I'm not jumping the gun here but the #1940Club starts next week and I've been gearing up and getting…
Here's a treat for those who relish fiction with off-the-wall cognitive mayhem - The Hearing Trumpet Suddenly it seemed as…
With so many books and so little time, it helps to have a little guidance. It also helps when two…
Hands down, this is the best book I've read all year: All For Nothing by Walter Kempowski. It's the bitter…
‘Oh, I know all about goats,’ Sonia was saying. ‘People give them the same recommendation as the billeting officers did…
Few things in this war have been more morally disgusting than the present hunt after traitors and Quislings. At best…
Long before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, bookish teens had Iris Murdoch. As the poet Philip Larkin…
Always fun to find half-remembered books. One bonus of this decluttering lark is that you find so many of them.…
George Orwell had an interesting chance encounter with a blasé conspiracy theorist at the Café Royal in 1940. (See left). The young…
The sandwich was no comfort, it was a pale limp thing a long way from the déjeuner sur l'herbe of her…
Two Sundays, two documentaries and two very satisfactory movie experiences. The first was Maiden at The Moviehouse in Millerton, NY.…
I once worked in a school where the librarian arranged the non-fiction by the color of the spine. It made…
I haven't read Go Set a Watchman and I'm not sure I will. I did read the first chapter in…
Science teacher Jonathan Heiles sent a link to all of us about the international public campaign to name the surface…
The first day of alleged spring and another day disrupted by the rituals and routines of early dismissal. By mid…