Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

Non-Fiction 'Blind Eye to Murder' by Tom Bower This is a book a little like 'Petain's Crime'  that I read earlier in t...

Fiction 'The Heretic's Apprentice' by Ellis Peters It is interesting now I am into the last few Brother Cadfael novels, that w...

The UK has a principle of free speech.  This has been restricted in recent years with the introduction of hate crimes which mean you can be ...

I know I have intense bad luck with holidays. It is now six years since I wrote: http://rooksmoor.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/when-holiday-is-w...

Non-Fiction 'Pétain's Crime' by Paul Webster Just because a book is important it is not guaranteed to be well written and this i...

I have just wasted 88 minutes and am writing this posting to warn you so that you might avoid doing the same. Having recently seen violent a...

Fiction 'Thud!' by Terry Pratchett I am the opposite of most people and read far less when on holiday than at work.  Having been k...