This is a selection of book reviews and articles, most of which I wrote while working at Good Reading magazine. They range from an interview with a tetchy Jeffrey Archer (who bristled at my suggestion of any lesbian subtext in the first instalment of his Clifton Chronicles) to an interview with the almost pathologically hypergraphic American novelist Dean Koontz, who seems to have the ability to dash off a book before breakfast.
I also wrotes articles that touch on whether it's acceptable to write notes or scribble in your own books, the practice of buying multiple copies of a book you love and giving them away to your friends and colleagues (a loathsome thing to do if you value your friends), a round-up of books from first-rate travel writers, and a survey of books banned on account of their lewd and lascivious content.