‘Time and Place’ by Alan Sheridan

Okay, I’ll admit it – this book had me baffled. It was billed as a fictionalised biography based on the diaries of a real-life actor, Mark Sheridan, as written by his descendant Alan Sheridan, but I have to admit I couldn’t tell if this was the case, or if it was really just a novel [...]

‘The Lost Continent’ by Bill Bryson

Well, this was fun! Many of the travel books I’ve read have been about far-flung exotic locations and although fascinating, have felt rather remote. But Bill Bryson has the knack of writing about ordinary, everyday sorts of places and still making them interesting or presenting them in a new light.
In this, he describes his travels [...]