Nigeness

It's getting on for two months since I embarked on my latest Big Read – The Maias by Eça de Queiróz, a hefty Portuguese classic of whic...

 There's a passage in a book I'm currently reading (for review) where the author, a professor of biology at an English university, t...

 I thought for a moment it must be a novelty boot scraper, especially as it was just by the front door – but no, it was a genuine, living he...

 For most of my adult life I have unthinkingly dismissed pyjamas as a kind of sartorial analogue of Horlicks, most definitely not for me. Th...

 Life is proving very busy, or at least time-consuming, just now, on several fronts – domestic, grandparental, medical (don't ask), lite...

 It seldom profits a man (especially a man) to listen to Radio 4 these days, but this morning I caught the new Book of the Week, Arctic Drea...

 A reader has written to ask me if I have stuck to my resolve – expressed in this post  from last year – to resist the government's mask...