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When budgets are tight, and the costs of living are accelerating, it’s hard to justify spending on books. But books nourish your minds, transcending the mundanities of everyday life.

I can’t leap tall buildings in a single bound, or travel to the past, but I think my superpower is no less impressive. In a world where everything is bared and shared, reading is a revolutionary act.

A charming story about a young boy’s adventure, set in the strange and magical interior of The Known World Bookshop. Written by one of my customers.

What are stories? What is fiction?
I’ve recently read, and was hugely inspired by, the historian/philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens – a Brief History of Humankind.

Review of Turkish Nobel-Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind, set in late 20th century Istanbul, during civic upheaval and urban growth.

As well as new books, this week I acquired a bugle, which would look great on the character perched on my flying camel. What could go wrong?

Peter and I went to a shopping centre. As a rule, I would rather have my teeth extracted without anaesthetic than visit one of these concrete conglomerates…

The first blog on my new, shiny website. The truth is, I’ve resisted going down the many twisting tortuous alleyways of the social media yellow brick road…