'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

No 'Friday Forgotten Book' today, because I want to pay a personal tribute to my brother-in-law Andrew Shanks, who died on Tuesday. ...

  I'm just back from a lovely trip to the Scottish Isles, which although overshadowed by other things, provided a scenic reminder of jus...

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Paul Winterton, himself the son of a journalist who had briefly been a Labour MP, had a successful career in Fleet Street (though he was rat...

With most films, I don't find it too difficult to make up my mind about whether I enjoyed them or not. The other day, for instance, I wa...

No Country for Old Men , which takes its title from a line in a poem by W.B. Yeats, is a Coen brothers film based on a novel by Cormac McCar...

I know there are very many well-read people who visit this blog, but I'm fairly confident that few, if any, of them will have read A Vie...

Nobody , a film that has enjoyed critical and commercial success, opens with a bruised and battered Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk, who is exce...

I'm truly delighted with the first review of What the World Needs Now , which has just appeared in Ellery Queen's MysteryMagazine. S...

I have quite a vivid memory of being on holiday with my parents in Colwyn Bay in the mid-70s when my Dad ran out of books to read. So he bou...