Life

The Philosopher's Pupil is a 1983 novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch. It is set in a small English spa town call...

Part three: France and Home.  Tuesday 18th : sleep well despite the best efforts of the All-Stars Snoring Team. B’fast 7 and not a moment ea...

Part two: Italy. Sunday 9th: up 6:45 b’fast off 8:10 col Basac Dere 10:30 3083. Whew. There's a widespread ocean of glacier up the side...

My "August" summer break, from my contemporaneous notes, split for convenience into France, Italy and France. The plan - which I ...

Have His Carcase is a 1932 locked-room mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers, her seventh novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and the second in which ...

Inversions by Iain M. Banks is not a Culture novel, whatever the lying PR folk may tell you. Instead it is very slightly Culture-adjacent; ...

A successor to Northern Lights and friends. Lyra is now twenty, a student at St Sophia's, but all is not well between her and Pan: the...