Waterstones and how it caught me by surprise
About two years ago, I went to London with my wife to look at some Chinese porcelain in the British museum. There’d been a programme...
Waterstones and how it caught me by surprise
‘Capturing life’
Seven reasons to suspect War and Peace may not be the greatest novel ever written
Marxists: turn away now.
My sinister bookshelves
Russian ‘interference’ in our elections. Who cares?
The triumph of memoir fiction
Slim novels
The religious story of the novel
The Man Booker Prize: where did it all go wrong?
Bond’s two greatest weaknesses, or why the franchise may need a new Roger Moore…
Strange reading 1: Sulla and the satyr
Child and Reacher and a guy called Raymond
The Malign Pyramid of Derivation: From John Le Carre and Len Deighton to James Ward
When Does a Very Good Novel Become “Great”?
Measurable versus Unmeasurable