"Their crashes and eruptions sound like handfuls of buckshot thrown into a tin bucket, or a bucketful of grain-like gravy dashed agains...

"Despite chronic alcoholism and failing health, Viv remained at the top of his game until the end. He never let an audience down."...

This has easily been my worst month for blogging so far all I can do is apologise. I am trying to read more and as a result the reviews are ...

The C of the title could mean clever as the number of times names of people, places and objects crop up starting with that letter. It remind...

there is a shop in Greenwich market selling designs by Hartwig Braun and this is one of a couple of bookmarks he has produced. Will plan to ...

"Shocked with these lamentable sounds, and dreading he knew not what, he advanced hastily - but what a sight for a father's eyes! -...

This book unravels like an onion with it matching that vegetable for its power to start the tear ducts tingling. The fact that it manages to...

This bookmark shows the downside of London in 1872. This reproduction of a print by Gustave Dore shows Orange Court, just off Drury Lane. Ag...

This is the second bookmark showing a vie of London, this time dating from 1630. This also came from the Museum of London and is one of the ...

"Mrs. Brandon did not answer. She had ceased to fan herself with the Illustrated London News and now she lay back on the sofa quite sti...

The bookmarks for September are all going to have a London theme. The first one, from the Museum of London is a print of the long view of Lo...

If there were any themes this month it was short stories with the Jergovic collection and Wessex Tales by Hardy. The first was easier to get...

"Is there a local mafia?" asked Bianchi. "Mafia?" exclaimed Micciche with the same incredulity he would have displayed h...

"Is there a local mafia?" asked Bianchi. "Mafia?" exclaimed Micciche with the same incredulity he would have displaye...

Just as the curtain is coming down on the month managed to get the Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia wrapped up, review tomorrow hopefully,...