Daily Archives: 1 January 2026

My Top Reads of 2025

In 2025, as the century closed its first quarter (where has the time gone?)  I read (and listened to) 70-ish books, though the precise number rather depends on how one counts things. Mick Herron’s nine-novel Slough House sequence is really … Continue reading Continue reading

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What I Read In December

Blake Crouch Dark Matter Jason Desson used to be the most promising physicist of his generation, but lack of funds meant that he couldn’t make progress on his efforts to quantumly entangle more atoms than existed in a tiny dot, … Continue reading Continue reading

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OBITUARY: Midnight ‘Naughtypants’ Ginsberg (2008-2026)

Also known as ‘Mr N. Pants of Cromer’, Mr Ginsberg died in the early hours of New Year’s Day. He was 17. Discovered as a stray in the garden at about six months old, and despite having been taught company … Continue reading Continue reading

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