Part 3
Bude to Land's End - May 2024
Boscastle to Tintagel 4 May 2024 Distance on Coast Path: 8.2km; ascent: 259m Total distance: 8.8km; ascent: 305m Walking time: 2h 25′ Total time: 4h 42′ Overnight: The Wellington Hotel, Boscastle An email came in overnight from Amy and Keith … Continue reading →
Crackington Haven to Boscastle 3 May 2024 Distance on Coast Path: 11.3km; ascent: 422m Total distance: 11.5km; ascent: 422m Walking time: 3h 24′ Total time: 4h 53′ Overnight: The Wellington Hotel, Boscastle Amy and Keith were at the bus stop in … Continue reading →
Bude to Crackington Haven 2 May 2024 Getting there: Train to Okehampton, bus to Bude. Overnight: Brendon Arms, Bude Distance on Coast Path: 16.6km; ascent: 542m Total distance: 16.9km; ascent: 542m Walking time: 4h 31′ Total time: 6h 11′ Overnight: … Continue reading →
After I found the second book in this series a bit disappointing (see ‘Dead Lions’) I was slow getting round to reading the next ones. Happily, ‘Real Tigers’ and then ‘Spook Street’ lived up to the promise of the original … Continue reading →
Horowitz has written several books continuing the work of famous authors, notably Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes and Ian Fleming/James Bond. I read one of his Holmes books, ‘House of Silk’, and enjoyed it. This one, a Bond story, not so much. … Continue reading →
This meticulously researched spoof of the diary of a late seventeenth-century student in Oxford who kept a dodo in his room will be specially enjoyed by anyone who knows something about the culture that makes Oxford what it was then … Continue reading →
Another ripping success for Hutchinson with this his second, and overall the third “book of the Aftermath” (if this doesn’t make sense, see the footnote here). This time the setting is mostly Oxford, but of course it’s not an Oxford … Continue reading →
As her honour affirms, Dame Janet Suzman is one of the great stage actors of our time. She is also an acclaimed director. So her personal insight into some of the great female roles in Western classic theatre is a … Continue reading →
Not a follow-up but in the same vein as his previously published ‘Fake History‘, Otto English turns his debunking searchlight on “heroes”. In ten chapters each devoted to one hero, he sets out to show that they are all deeply … Continue reading →
This is the second book in the collaboration between Dave Hutchinson and Adam Roberts which started with Hutchinson’s ‘Shelter’. The third title, Hutchinson’s ‘Sanctuary’ has just been published; I have not yet received my copy. I have nothing original to … Continue reading →
