In a new edition of the occasional series, I want to tell you about a book I've read and loved, which I think adds to the genre (crime, ...

Forty years ago this month, Robert B Parker published the sixth Spenser novel, Looking For Rachel Wallace . cover scan of my 1987 Penguin...

Since it's 32 years old this week, I'm taking a look at INXS ' Devil Inside , a single I think best encapsulates not only the ex...

According to Steve MacManus’ thoroughly entertaining autobiography,  The Mighty One: My Life Inside the Nerve Centre , the key age-range for...

I have a list in my head, of books that I would love to read (that goes back decades) and I never seem to forget the entries on it.  Sometim...

I can’t remember now which Con Andrew David Barker & I first met at - though I’m going to assume it was an Edge-Lit - but I was already ...

I’ve written on the blog before about books that had a major impact on my formative reading years (from The Restless Bones , which I wrote a...

It's now five years since I started what I thought was going to be a little project.  It didn't end up quite like that, of course bu...