Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer (subtitled Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time), is the boo...

Mistress of All Evil repackaged as multidimensional heroine Excepting the horror genre, not many films are named after a villain. Villai...

Doctor Who: The Television Companion by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker was my first thought here. I must have read it all a dozen t...

Millers in Keighley was my favourite independent bookshop as long as I lived there. It had a great mix of new and secondhand titles at a w...

Love bytes. The Goodies episode “2001 and a bit” (1976) is perhaps the most fantastically offbeat of all the Goodies satires, extrapol...

For day twenty-seven of #bookaday we are asked for a book where we would want to be one of the characters. After rolling this around for a ...

In doing this series of blog posts it seems polite to avoid promoting our own work, so I won’t pick The Mercury Annual , Pilgrims at the W...

Today the #bookaday request is for a book you've not finished. As you can see below, I had quite a lot to choose from. I'll get...

Today I have to choose a book that hooked me into reading. I could have gone for the Peter and Jane books, or the works of Enid Blyton, ...

Is True Detective, Season 1 (Sky Atlantic, TV, 8 episodes) a crime programme or a supernatural programme? Even by the end I wasn’t entire...

Not many books could be said to have truly changed my life, but my pick for day 23 of #bookaday is one. Unlike John, I wasn't very go...

Day 22 of #bookaday, and we're supposed to name a book that's out of print. This one probably is: Philip Jose Farmer conquiert l...

Day 21 of #bookaday (though I only started on day 4 and began blogging about it on day 5) is for naming summer reads. When I'm on hol...

Gibbon Moon, ebook, 1736ll. In years gone by one of the principle pleasures of the gentleman on a Sunday afternoon was to read Maurice Ric...

For day twenty of #bookaday we are asked to choose our favourite cover. So many to choose from! I love the cover of Vingt Mille Lieues Sous...

Day 19 of #bookaday and you must name a book you still can’t stop talking about. Well, some books I liked so much that I had to work hard ...

Day eighteen of #bookaday , and I'm still going - just about! Today's request is for a book I bought on a recommendation. I wanted...

The seventeenth item on the Borough Press's #bookaday list asks for a future classic. So that's a book that isn't officially a...

The Professor and the Siren (New York Review Books, 78pp) is a new translation by Stephen Twilley of three stories by Giuseppe Tomasi Di ...

Day 16 of #bookaday , and we are asked to come up with a book we can't believe more people haven't read. I haven't read it for a...