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• Trollope on the sexes – and the “railway sandwich”

  How men and women think, and whether there is a difference, is one of the abiding puzzles of life.  We all want to understand other…

• Literature Festival at Sea: 10/10

  “You have 15 seconds to capture someone’s attention,” crime writer Mark Billingham says.  Outside, the ocean rushes by, waves flecked with white horses.  The wreck…

• Goldfinger: “Oddjob: the Pressure Room”

  ‘Are the James Bond novels any good?’ a friend asked me the other day. ‘They are anachronistic, homophobic and sexist,’ I replied.  ‘But James Bond himself…

• A complete short story: “Taxi to London”

  I wrote the following story as flash fiction at a writing course I attended recently at Loutro on Crete (links in bold italics are to other posts…