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Have you heard Tinariwen? They're Touareg, so hopefully that qualifies them as Arabian, although I've heard they're music described (rather naffly) as "Saharan blues".

No - leapfrogging.

Mr Oblivion, you are indeed a sad, sad man.

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Pah! What does she know - she's just trying to spoil your fun, the old killjoy! Go on, you can trust us! *sharpens cleaver*

I'm really looking forward to Christmas this year. I'm going to Nelson Mandela's house for my dinner - we've been best friends for a while now, ever since we met at this year's World Arm-Wrestling Championships, which I won. the only problem is I don't know whether to take my bird - Kiera...

Yea, yea, that one, that one! Altogether now "You're a bum, you're a punk, you're an old slut on junk, . . . You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap, lousy faggot, "Happy Christmas" my arse, I pray to God it's our last!" Now that's what I call festive.

:) Nice link Mort - reminded me of this: http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/

If memory serves . . . Memory's a strange fish, and I don't entirely trust it, but I'm thinking . . . my big brother's Harry Harrison stuff (probably The Stainless Steel Rat), although I vaguely recollect an anthology that contained a short story about a missionary who took christianity to a...

The Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee "Anyone interested in the power of fiction to move us and extend our sense of life should get hold of this book". (It says here).

Did somebody say "Deserts"? You made me think of this - one my absolute favourites, unfortunately from that Romantic period you don't have a taste for, but anyway . . . ;) I MET a traveller from an antique land, Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near...

Hey bobby, you know the way back from "the wilderness" - why don't you lead a search party and find them. (If it's at all possible, though, could you just bring enema back - I must say, I found that ou be chap a little tiresome at times (Oh alright - bring them both if you must; sticks and...

As you're reading Blake for the first time I'd suggest you try his shorter poems, such as The Sick Rose or The Tyger to begin with. Many of Blake's more epic poems and "prophetic books" contain symbolism that is practically incomprehensible without years of study. His shorter works, however, are...

I think The Guide writers are overrated.

Try this, mama Go here - http://www.imageshack.us/ click "browse" to search for your picture once selected click "host it!" copy the hotlink provided - it should look something like [IMG]http://img73.blah.blah.blah[IMG] then simply paste it in your post and Bob's your uncle!

Re. Heretic I've read the first two and enjoyed both of those - If you like Cornwell's other stuff you'll like these, I think. His period detail is good and he knows how to buckle a swash, too. :)

Blake by Peter Ackroyd I found this fascinating; superb detail and full of insight into the man and the period. Highly recommended to anyone interested in Blake or his work. In fact, highly recommended to anyone...

In that case you may like to try Joe Simpson's Dark Shadows Falling. It's an exploration of the "darker" side of modern mountaineering, and looks at the way in which greed and ambition have created a climate where people are able to pass dying climbers, refusing to offer assistance rather than...