One of history's biggest forgery scandals - an astonishing tale of greed and obsession.

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Note: As is traditional with these reviews (see here and here and here), I’ll split my thoughts into three parts, of which this is the first. I’m actually due to go to the London Library next week to listen to the author in person (talking to Samira Ahmed), but these are my initial thoughts about ⅓ of the way through the latest volume in David Kynaston’s epic…

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Just had a listen to the remixed Rubber Soul, and I wasn't going to say anything, but then I went for a walk. If you'd asked me a couple of weeks ago, I'd have trotted out my usual line, which is that I think I prefer Rubber Soul to Revolver. Then again, I've also said I don't think I'd put it in my top 5.

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All the rules and conventions for joining in Kitty's Saturday Mystery Jukebox laid out in one place for your convenience.

I downloaded this because it was recommended by Emily St. John Mandell in an interview promoting her latest novel Exit Party (which I have not yet downloaded). The tenor of her recommendation was that it was little-known but deserved a wider readership. Fair enough, I thought, on many counts. I could not recall ever having heard of Dan Chaon. I've read since that he has had short stories featured in…

The parking situation at the VW dealer in MK (artist's impression) Today, finally, the long saga of the EMERGENCY GEARBOX MODE was brough to a close. We had the actual problem fixed* in France over the summer, but on returning home and trying to use the other car key, we discovered that it had become "unpaired" from the car because an essential electronic component had been swapped out.

The Guardian/Observer has a headline today: ‘No one knows what we stand for’ For a story in which Tories gathering for their conference complain about their party’s offer for the voters. &#82…

In one of his books (can’t remember which one) French polymath philosopher Michel Serres makes a big deal of the fact that in French, the same word – temps – means both weather and time. He makes the point, in his gnomish way, that since weather is a chaotic system, then time is too. Time is not a straight line, but fractal and folded.