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Deola Bello works for a company in London that audits charities and NGOs around the world. She arranges one assignment so that she'll be...

On Saturday 11 March, I'll be in conversation with award-winning author and broadcaster Fatima Manji about her book Hidden Heritage: Red...

Kaaro can find things. He can read people's minds and switch into a sort of psychic internet thing - so long as he's not lathered hi...

The winner of the 2020 Clarke Award for best science-fiction novel of the year is a sprawling epic, charting the lives of multiple generati...

I’m struggling a bit with prose for grown-ups, so over the last month worked my way through The Adventures of Tintin , an eight-volume box-s...

I really enjoyed this 90-page science-fiction novella about a girl who runs away from home to go to space university, when her ship is at...

Hooray for my cousin G, who asked a favour of a waiter on my behalf. I now have the opening line of something mammoth I am writing. Well, no...

To mark five years of his own blog, the noble and gallant Duke, Lord James Moran has posted a whole bundle of things he's learnt as a wr...

I'm not usually hot and sweaty for technological nubbins, but phwoar! check out the news about the X02 . I've been following the On...

There is a theory I am quite drawn to that humans have factory settings. The idea is that Homo sapiens developed and evolved to fit particul...

So where were we? Oh yes, I was blogging from our hotel in the Sydney Rocks, while the Dr was exploring the roof-top hot-tub. I went up to j...

I’ve enjoyed Jon Snow’s often jokey Snowmail preludes to each evening’s Channel 4 News , which are often funnier, more insightful and more ...

Blimey, this is my 400th post. The Mission Song is another corker from John le Carre – not exactly a huge departure from his previous work,...