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The second novel in the Mounties trilogy was published simultaneously in hardback and paperback on 8 April 1976, a little more than two mon...

“It’s all so unbearable. No wonder we work so hard to look away. No wonder we erect those walls, literal and psychological. No  wonder we wo...

This is an odd and very racist novel, first published in 1953 but largely set 30 years later. The reprint I read is from 1982, with cover ar...

This is great fun - a Rivers of London novella set in New York in the Jazz Age, narrated by the woosterish Augustus Berrycloth-Young. Gussi...

I'm ploughing on with my  episode guide to the BBC children's serial Garry Halliday (1959-62) , and ahead of an entry there on the f...

Bestselling author Athena Liu asks her friend June Hayward to look over a manuscript she has written using an old, manual typewriter - the o...

“The museum is a powerful and extraordinarily malleable cultural sorting house. [Museums] are places for demonstrating that the West is best...

"The frank, uncensored story of what really happens in the making of a super-film," promises the back-cover blurb on Roger Moore a...

Having read Michael Bartholomew's biography of HV Morton , I'm now on to Morton himself. HV Morton's London is a collection of t...

This is a very good biography of a very successful writer and pretty awful human being. Michael Bartholomew brilliantly teases out the real ...

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...