On the face of it this is a story of what happens when a bit of devilry enters the lives of ordinary people. But Muriel Spark is also using ...

Each chapter is an advanced year so it does have a disjointed feel with an assassination attempt then being followed by Skip the CIA intelli...

Bryson is happy to accept that there was a person called William Shakespeare and he was a genius responsible for creating some of the most w...

The end of the book echoes the previous volume with Moreland popping into Jenkins path at Lady Molly's. the musician's marriage has ...

The more you read about Shakespeare the more it strikes you that it is amazing anything of his life is left. If his plays hadn‘t been pulled...

There is a real sense of a generation standing aside letting the Second World War usher in the chance for another group of people to have a ...

Bryson paints a concise picture of the world Shakespeare would have encountered when he came to London. A City within walls with gates close...

Succumbed to the hype/temptation and popped out and picked up Devil May Care . Although it is being described as the literary event of the y...

Turning back to The Dance... is like picking up an old family photographic album, the ones full of black and white photos held in with gumm...

Having missed most of the Bill Bryson travel books the attraction of this one was not just the recommended mentions here there and everywher...

Finally coming to the end you have to sit back and wonder at the feat and also applaud the plot. With its twists and turns it only becomes c...

This is an idea that is designed to share that first impression of what it feels like to open a new book – that coffee jar lid splitting mom...

This was one of several bookmarks available at the For Your Eyes Only exhibition about Ian Fleming and James Bond at the Imperial War Museum...

Went to the Imperial War Museum briefly this afternoon and popped into the For Your Eyes Only exhibition about the world of Ian Fleming. Th...

Wikipedia can be great but it can also plant ideas and thoughts in your mind that might not have been there and as a result it clouds your ...