"I never saw him again. I often think of how so many people have walked into my life for just a few minutes and kicked up some dust, th...

Apologies for the crime theme but this book came through as part of the Serpent's Tail Classics range being launched early next month a...

"He had time for a glimpse only, but it was enough. As in a nightmare, he realised that once more there was a dead man on Bolter's ...

One of the reasons I still go to Cambridge has been to visit the excellent Galloway & Porter. But sadly the town has lost one of its att...

If you were looking for a word that would describe this book to someone asking what the tone of this thriller was it would havfe to be '...

Shaun the Sheep is a children's programme made by the people at Aardman responsible for Wallace and Gromit. So it includes the great hum...

The author of Tofu Landing has very kindly agreed to answer some of my questions following the reading of his book. I'm very grateful t...

"He had moved to London two years earlier because it had an appeal that even the greyest skies could not darken. it was a place where a...

Although this starts with the classic 'I found this manuscript in a box' type preface it doesn't delay for too long and gets str...

Years ago I stayed up late one night and watched for some odd reason a film starring a youthful looking Michael Hutchence. The idea of Dogs ...

There has been an exhibition running at the Imperial War Museum around the idea of growing your own food and making do in war time condition...

"...basically nothing is more abhorrent to me than these so-called old masters here at the Kunsthistorisches Museum and old masters gen...

Something has happened which I dreamed of for the last year and thought might never happen. Suddenly and passionately my son is reading. Rea...

This is a stream of thought and opinion that covers the subjects of art and culture. what is great art and what is culture when most of what...

There is so much that still needs to be read but the next couple of weeks are going to be peppered with some of Penguin's latest range ...