Cabbie Monaco

News-gathering doesn't seem to have changed much over the years if Evelyn Waugh's Scoop is anything to go by. Shenanigans describe...

In 2018 I went to a friend's art exhibition and wrote the review below. I posted a link on Facebook, where it has lived happily for six ...

I was waiting for the train the other day. It was early afternoon and I thought it wouldn't be too busy, but there were lots of people m...

Stig of the Dump takes me back to when it was read out in my junior school class. I was probably the same age as Barney, the boy who was t...

I decided to read Rabbit, Run after seeing it included in a couple of listings of great literature of the 20th century. It's about Har...

I picked up Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go because it was described as a dystopian story. The events take place in 1990s England, bu...

I went to the Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair in April 2024, looking for options for self-publishing. Meandering through the stal...