Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

  Fiction 'Metropolis' by Philip Kerr This is the last of the Bernie Gunther novels, the second published posthumously. Unlike the o...

Fiction 'The Poison Chocolates Case' by Anthony Berkeley [Anthony Berkely Cox] Like his 'Murder in the Basement' (1932) wh...

  Fiction 'The Armageddon Rag' by George R.R. Martin This book published in 1983 is probably the best I have read by Martin. It has ...

As anyone who has read this blog over the past couple of years will know despite my liberal politics I am enamoured with adventure novels of...

There are many things which come back to irritate me at regular intervals, that probably seem trivial to the bulk of the population, but for...