Cabbie Monaco

When I was a kid in the UK we didn't celebrate Halloween, but there was a time when I encountered the idea of vampires. I've no ...

I'm always on the lookout for fiction that's set on the French Riviera and came across a reference to Twenty-Four Hours in the Life...

Sometimes you just want to read a page-turner, and you can't beat Agatha Christie for that. I've been working through John Curran...

Today we celebrate crisp sandwiches. The humble snack now has its own annual feast day on 25th October , which is also, of course, St Crisp...

Three books have coloured my view of French literature, all set texts for study. They each feature a miserable woman, living a depressing...

Will Self's My Idea of Fun had been sitting on my shelf for about 20 years. I'd started it, didn't warm to the first few page...

I was surprised to discover within one branch of my family's history, a chemist-druggist who travelled to America in 1862, leaving his ...