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I've been listening to this, the fourth of Mick Herron's Slow Horses books, a little behind the run of the TV version and it's b...

This is the third of the, to date, eight Slough House novels (following Slow Horses and Dead Lions ). Again, the TV version - which I saw f...

River Cartwright is a nepo baby in MI5, his grandfather a retired top spook. But River cocks up a big operation and, in disgrace, is assigne...

Two teenage friends, Freda and Florence, run away from home in York in 1926 and head to London to make their fortunes on the stage. Gwendole...

I was in London for a bit on Saturday to attend the live recording of the final Eggpod , where I caught up with several good friends. Having...

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...

I read this on holiday as research for something I'm working on at the moment. Dr Rupa Huq, MP for Ealing Central and Acton, explores d...

This is an odd, beguiling time-travel romance first staged in 1926, then later adapted for radio, TV and two films. John L Balderston chief...

Over a series of long drives and shorter washings-up, I've worked my way through this 35+ hour reading of Our Mutual Friend , the novel ...

Here are two stills from the earliest known TV appearance by actor James Beck, later famous as spiv 'Joe Walker' in Dad's Army ....

I've once again been a guest on Cinema Limbo , the podcast that picks over odd, old films. In this case, it's Give My Regards to Bro...

Today, Matthew Sweet and I journeyed out to Chiswick to find the grave of David Whitaker (1928-80), original story editor of Doctor Who and ...

Last year, when I asked what books by Penelope Fitzgerald I should read, a few people suggested this very good biography by Hermione Lee. Le...

I loved this latest entry in the Rivers of London series, with Detective Constable Peter Grant on the trail of a vengeful angel linked to th...

This is a very odd love letter to Australia, begun soon after the author emigrated there in the summer of 1950 and published in 1952. I borr...