The beautiful, bountiful summer is drawing to a close. It is not cold yet but I can feel a crispness in the early morning air one associa...

I learned two new sayings in the past 18 hours since four Parisiennes descended chez nous. But ah yes, in one of my posts I told you about ...

Patrícia Lourival Acioli, according to a defense attorney who knew her well, had “a serious problem”. She wasn’t afraid. Patrícia, unti...

I don't know what I'd do if I didn't write. As long as I have a book going, it's like there's a corner of my world tha...

Today I finished the first draft of a new book that replaces one I’d finished a year before, because that one was scooped by subsequent worl...

For the best part of two weeks I have been in the North of England. The same North which, with the dishonourable exception of Manchester, h...

This isn’t my title (though I wish it was).  It’s the title of a delightful book by James Geary subtitled A Brief History of the...