Current Reading
I am currently reading Consider Phlebas, by Iain ‘M’ Banks. It is the first Science Fiction novel I have read since I was a kid, and I have to say it took quite a long time to get into. The…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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Brian Clough 1935 – 2004
Sadly, Brian Clough died yesterday. As a Nottingham Forest fan, he obviously meant a great deal to me from a football perspective, simply for what he achieved with the club. It would appear that 30 years after he first took…
The Crime Trade – Simon Kernick
I finished The Crime Trade, Simon Kernick’s third novel, in hardback (I must be keen!) last night, and it was really rather good. I have something of a soft spot for dark crime fiction, and this certainly hit the spot.…
Some Recent Reading
‘Like a Fiery Elephant’ – Jonathon Coe An awesome book, magnificent. Anyone who cares about books, reading, and novels should have a look at this. It’s a biography of BS Johnson, the modernist author who killed himself in 1973. Johnson…
Email posting & gmail
This is a great idea. Blogger allows me to post by simply sending an email to a special address. The subject of my email make the title of the post. Easy. I’ve just started using gmail and I have to…
First Past the Post
Well, this is the first post to my website. I’ll hopefully be posting plenty of messages to the site, mainly about books but sometimes about politics and computers too. Maybe the odd excerpt from my life, now and again. hopefully…