It is 1999. Jim shares a happy home atop England’s crumbling white cliffs with spirit medium Ena and her rescue menagerie of terrapins, geese and an eccentric goat.

Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood

Stevyn Colgan on policing, Douglas Adams, QI, folklore, eccentricity, his new book Awakenings, and why all you really need is enough.

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

(the curious, industry-defying tale of producing a bestseller in the space of three months)

At The Autumn Decorative Fair in Battersea (29 Sept – 4 Oct) we’re offering pre-launch paperbacks of author Nicole Swengley’s art-and-design inspired novel, Fallowfield, at a special price for visitor...

Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood

Old Litkinov owned the bookshop down the road and, back when I was a poor student, I would sometimes sell him books that I had stolen from delivery trucks, supermarkets and the bedrooms of people who’...