Every time I have an appointment at Moorfields for my eyes I like to pop into Camden Lock Books at Old Street tube station if I get the ...

"Psychogeography: The study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions ...

I have been reading The Worst Street in London by Fiona Rule, which is about Dorset Street in the Spitafields area. One of the main reaso...

Last year I enjoyed Steven Johnson's series about where do great ideas come from- How we got to now , which was shown on the BBC ...

I must confess I have not quite finished this book but wanted to get some of my thoughts down about it before I forgot them. Psychogeorg...

Thoughts at the half way point of: Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube  by Andrew Martin One of the problems wi...

Having established most of the themes of his books in Rivers of London there is perhaps no surprise that this is more of the same with dif...

One of the cover lines describing this book asks you to imagine what would have happened if Harry Potter grew up and joined the police. In...

After deciding to dip into Project Gutenberg and see what was there, and to postpone getting bogged down further in the Dostoyevsky I'...

In a last ditch effort to try to have a go at using an e-reader I fired up the Nook on the tube to work this morning and taking advantage ...

Mikhail Bulgakov is world renowned for the brilliant The Master and Margarita but if you go back to the start of his writing career you g...

Having been thinking about things now for most of this week the decision that has been reached is to opt for an area that I could read about...

Thinking about what this blog should be about has lef me to a few possible options. When I was a child I remember going into a stamp shop an...

It's hard to believe that when I started blogging I took great pride in the output and used to pat myself on the back for doing at least...

This is the second book about the Vietnam war I have read in recent weeks as I amble through the history of that conflict that might see m...