Cabbie Monaco

In the run up to Christmas I read three more of the books that have been sitting on my shelf for years. They're all novella length and e...

2023, the start of a new year and the end of an era as it sadly heralds the closure of Monaco's Stars n Bars on 27 January, thirty year...

If I hadn't just read Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland I wouldn't have got much further than the first cou...

In 2019 there was a lot of buzz around Candice Carty-Williams's debut novel Queenie . The marketing bods, of which Carty-Williams is o...

I once knew a man who was an alcoholic. He was intellectually brilliant, literally a rocket scientist. When sober and not hungover he was...

"Why are you reading a children's story, Cabbie?" Well, I'll tell you. I've found yet another unopened book on my she...

Dino Buzzati's The Tartar Steppe is one of those books where it pays to read something about it before you start. It's the sort of...