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‘The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth,’ so declares George Bowling, the anti-hero of George Orwell’s 1939 novel...

Hangover Square is a book I've always meant to read, but until now, have never got round to doing so. Thank heaven I have! For this is...

Everybody knows the story of Lord Lucan, but for those who don’t Dead Lucky recounts the story in its opening chapters. In 1974 the...

What to do about the guest who overstays his or her welcome? Moreover what to do about the guest who stays on for not just a few hours...

The brutal 2006 murder of an octogenarian in one of London’s most fashionable (and expensive) addresses is the topic of Thomas Harding’s...

The 1979 death of British nurse Helen Smith in Jeddah has always been shrouded in mystery. Did the 23-year-old fall from a balcony as per...

Two books for the price of one, that’s the intriguing proposition of Malcolm Bradbury’s To The Hermitage, the author’s final novel...

Amongst the many ways murderers 'do away’ with their victims, poisoning must surely be one of the ghastliest of methods. Convulsions,...

The death of Helen Smith has been shrouded in controversy ever since the 23-year-old nurse allegedly fell from a sixth-floor balcony in...

Got to confess I’m not a fan of sci-fi novels. Movies, maybe – but novels . . . Along with westerns, chick-lit and Fantasy/Magic Realism...

Not for nothing did authors Derek Humphry and David Tindall choose ‘False Messiah’ as the title for their book about the remarkable life...

Knole House in Sevenoaks is arguably Britain’s greatest private house. Home to the same family for thirteen generations, Robert...

Much of what David Skelton advocates to 'fix' an ailing and dispirited UK in his recently published tract The New Snobbery is...

Sir John Mortimer is perhaps best know for creating one of literature's most irrascible yet loveable characters in Horace Rumpole. The...

Imagine a place sandwiched somewhere 'twixt the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, not as far south as Turkey, nor as far north as Moscow,...

The brutal murder in 1972 of Gail Benson was wicked beyond belief. It happened in January of 1972 in Trinidad where Miss Benson was...

Stepping Westward is an ambitious novel. And at over 400 pages in length it’s a book that is undeniably meatier than your average campus...

For a brief moment – 1991 to be precise - everything the KLF touched turned to, well, gold. Frontman and Ex-Echo & The Bunnymen and...

I first came across Jeffrey Bernard in the late 70s when he was writing a column for a Sunday redtop. Even as a pre-teenager I was...

I have to confess until I stumbled upon it in what I now appreciate was an act of supreme serendipity, I had never heard of this, one of...