Imagine no ‘Imagine’
There is “Imagine” the song, recorded by John Lennon in May 1971 and which, almost ever since, is…
Criminally satisfying
This is one of the most intriguing of the 30 or so “Maigret” books that we have read: a man calls on…
More than beer and sausages
Germany gave the world the word schadenfreude, and some parts of the world were happy to throw it…
The story of a book
One of the less obvious tourist sites in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is the former house…
Where impossibilities seem commonplace
Walking down a city street in India one day (it may have been Bombay and it may have been 1973; so…