Apr 21, 2020Confinement Travel Agency: Part 3Part 3 of 3 in this series. Stay at home, travel by book.
Apr 12, 2020Confinement Travel Agency: Part 2Part 2 of 3 in this series. Physical confinement can't stop us from travelling by book.
Apr 6, 2020Confinement Travel Agency: Part 1We may not be able to travel further than the supermarket, but we can still read books from other countries...
Sep 30, 2019Review: A Matter of Interpretation by Elizabeth Mac DonaldThe curious life of 13th century monk Michael Scot is reimagined. Much is at stake as his translations seek to recover lost knowledge.
Aug 24, 2019Review: Las Cenizas del Comal by Francisco Martínez CriadoThis remarkable and revelatory book does rather a lot in its circa 200 pages. It is the autobiographical experience of a Spaniard working...
Jul 24, 2019To Singapore, with books!Recently I was fortunate enough to be in Singapore for the third time in less than two years and on this most recent trip I decided it...
May 9, 2017Football, fiction and fameSport and fiction don’t always mix well. The attraction of sport is that the drama is real, truly unscripted and unpredictable;...
Apr 22, 2017Art, literature and underrated citiesFish and trees are alike (p7) Recently as part of a module on my masters course we were given an interesting task: we were let loose in...