Pages & Proofs

The football season looms. So the Daily Telegraph gives us a slideshow of writers and their favourite football teams. Camus played goalie for Racing Universitaire Algerios, Arthur Conan Doyle was a goalie for Portsmouth, Salman Rushdie supports Spurs, J.K. is a Hammer, Roddy Doyle follows Chelsea, Julian Barnes supports Leicester City for his sins, Stephen [...]

There’s a new biography about Winston Churchill… but hold on. Before you turn away because it’s another book about this famous statesman, this one addresses his writing career – the profession that paid the bills as far as this man was concerned. Mr. Churchill’s Profession by Peter Clarke is receiving some decent reviews, including from the [...]

Earlier this year, I read Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn. Here is my video review of this non-fiction book about thousands of bath toys that fell into the ocean off a container ship and were washed around the globe.

To quote today’s youngsters, “OMG!” There’s a book about the A303 – one of my favourite roads in all the world – and the Telegraph just reviewed it. The A303: Highway to the Sun by Tom Fort is my next read without a doubt. I’ve always loved that road. I love the ups and downs, [...]