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Cool Fall Reading

As a book judge, a book reviewer, a book writer and a voracious reader, I sometimes feel it's all getting out of hand. But here are some I need to recommend to you.

First up is 'High Society: Mind Altering Drugs In History and Culture', and it's a book for which the term 'lavishly illustrated' [...]

Cool Fall Books

As a book judge, a book reviewer, a book writer and a voracious reader, I sometimes feel it's all getting out of hand. But here are some I need to recommend to you.

First up is 'High Society: Mind Altering Drugs In History and Culture', and it's a book for which the term 'lavishly illustrated' [...]

Putting The Kitsch In Kitchens

It's an advert for cheap kitchens (but not so you'd know it) which features the much-hated Hackney Hipster look (see article passim). That should upset the people who run the ant-Hipster site.

Halloween Dogs

Living proof that civilisation on Earth is now at an end.
These people are called Soshanna and Randi, and they're with their dog Casey. Casey is the one in the middle.

Dancing On Graves

I stumbled across this new memorial yesterday on Pentonville Road, at the gravesite of Joseph Grimaldi (18 December 1778 – 31 May 1837). He's commemorated in the little park where he is buried. It features a pair of coffin-shaped graves, and when you dance on them they ring out in different tones, making music. A [...]

The Secret Worlds Of London

If you've never been to the London Metropolitan Archive, you're in for a surprise. It's an amazing resource open to all, but is shockingly underused by Londoners.

Here they have everything from where the bombs fell in your street to the records of Bedlam (my favourite doctor's entry for a young female patient; 'Admitted suffering [...]

Don't Watch Your Language

Watch this instead.

Bryant & May Come To Life

One way or another, my senior detectives are going to find a way to come to life.

Right now, scripts are being prepared for a TV adaptation from the folks who brought you 'Wallender'. I'm hard at work on the first draft of the next novel – and we've been given the all-clear to create a [...]

Why Muslims Don't Make Me Nervous

Washington public radio broadcaster Juan Williams just lost his job for saying the following on Fox's Bill O'Reilly show, said: 'I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see [...]

British Character Actors 13: Peter Jeffrey

The word stalwart springs to mind. He was in everything I (and maybe you) grew up with, from 'Dr Who', 'The Avengers', 'The Abominable Dr Phibes', 'If…', 'Yes Minister', 'Midnight Express', 'Anne of the Thousand Days', 'Countess Dracula' and 'The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen'.

Whenever he stormed into a room slapping a newspaper in his [...]