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Sisters Laleh and Myung live deep inside the Whale of Babel, but can pass from this extraordinary, vast creature into other worlds. But Myun...

Piranesi chronicles his exploration of a "labyrinth" of halls full of statues-with-meaning, the place liable to epic floods and th...

One benefit of the Arthur C Clarke Award for best science-fiction novel of the year moving from April to July is that when the Dr asked wh...

The nice people at Gosh! recommended this when I said I was after something to intrigue the Lord of Chaos, in our efforts to get him to ...

A Game Without Rules  (2017) continues the beguiling story begun in Geis - A Matter of Life and Death (2016), the extraordinary, beautiful ...

Due to a holiday plus some regular commuting in the last few weeks, I have read a few books for fun and not solely to steal from for work (...

A better result than last month. I read The Number Mysteries by Marcus du Sautoy in preparation for an interview for a job I then didn'...

Spent the weekend at the parents' and on Sunday morning my mum took me to Farley Mount . I've not been there since my early teens, b...

For what might one day be a work thing, I asked m'colleague M to recommend Dirk Bogarde films from the early 60s. Am woefully ill-read i...

"People are too often terrible advertisements for their own beliefs." Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind , p. 357. The Dr took me to...

My post two years ago on The Brooklyn Follies suggests Paul Auster’s work is all aimiable stuff with little incident but musing and convers...