Some mystery novels, like Margery Allingham’s, seem never to have gone out of print. Others, however, are much harder to come by. I used to haunt second hand book sales, but I have a suspicion that this once rich hunting ground has been picked over by people snatching up cheap books to sell online. Nothing…

I like photos snatched from the garden.

My little whinge the other day about the predominance of series novels was more than a bit unfair. There are any number of series well worth devouring every book. Dana Stabenow’s Alaskan mysteries spring to mind, and then, there’s the survival-of-the-maddest British high school murders from M J Trow’s Maxwell series. Trow rattles along at…

Strip me from my body.I am sick with its soft decay.Skin erodes to acid etching.I polish, and blood seeps away. Where is my shine,my steel endurance? I want titanium bonessheathed in alloy,not a body of tissue ridden by ancestors. I will bethe beginning of unborn life.

New research shows the well-dressed Neanderthal wore make-up and jewellery. Kind of changes that old cave man insult 🙂