I have a soft spot for classic literature. Even so I felt nervous before tackling “Crime and Punishment”. Its reputation preceded it....

Why did I know nothing about Biafra? In the late 1960s there were terrible acts of genocide against the Igbo people in Nigeria....

Yesterday, for the October Frights blog hop I wrote about zombies, so today it's vampires. At the bottom of this post you'll find links...

Swing Time is a beautiful novel that transcends borders. It is set in London, where the main character was born, New York and a village...

I read four novels “It Can't Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis (published in 1935), “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley (published in 1932),...

There is a time-honoured tradition in horror that youngsters who have sex will be the first to die and the last person standing will be...