“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Read more

“Tolstoy clearly never spent any time with my happy family.” Appetites: A Cookbook Anthony Bourdain Read more

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.” Paul Clifford… Read more

I really enjoyed doing my regular Sunday feature, Quotables, but I’ve been doing it for a couple of years now and I’ve begun to feel like I want to try something new. So for 2017, we’re going to look at First Words – the first lines of famous books, of the books on my shelves, of books I want to… Read more