CHARLESNEVIN

April 30 Today, as promised, cake! The Battenberg cake tends to divide opinion between those with discerning palates and those of us who...

March 31 Do you often lie idle? ‘Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits,’ as the old fisherman said. But other men are...

February 28 Freeman Dyson left us on this date in 2020. The pioneer quantum physicist and pure mathematician was 96, having left Britain...

January 31 Born on this date in Hanover in 1707, Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of George II, father of George III, and a prince...

My daily delivery of sayings, thoughts, findings and happenings from rambles in life's byways. If anything at all links what follows, it...

A daily delivery of sayings, thoughts, findings and happenings from rambles in life's byways. If anything at all links what follows, it...

A daily delivery of sayings, thoughts, findings and happenings from rambles in life's byways. If anything at all links what follows, it...

I am ridiculously, embarrassingly, excessively proud to announce that my latest collection of stories, So Last Century, is on sale today....

Here's a bit more about my latest book, So Last Century. It's a collection of humorous short stories set in each decade of the twentieth...

Sometimes it’s difficult not to take somewhere for granted, especially when that somewhere has been around for at least 20 centuries. But...

Ladies and gentlemen, admirers of Jane and lovers of literature, please be upstanding as I propose a toast to the true hero of Pride and...

I am not a foodie. This is not a boast so much as a regret: got the stomach for it, but not the palate. No, really: I speak as a man who...