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It's a great book, one of those ones which makes me go all ooooh just by looking at the spine on my shelf. I think it's pretty much out of print here in the UK which is a scandal. Stewart, I know you have other McGraths. As you rightly say, Asylum is the next stop. Then, I would suggest...

Heh, nice spot, Stew!

Here is the story as I saw it. Though frankly I think they could have worded the headline better, as I read it as "Doctors: let's kill disabled babies." It's important to note that the college placed emphasis on passive methods (withdrawal of treatment etc), only mentioning active euthanasia...

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

I think this is an astonishing comment. To call Ham on Rye "one of those male anti-Chick-Lit type books" is like calling Crime and Punishment "one of those police procedural novels." Henry Chinaski is an often repellent character but still containing glimmers of sympathy. The book is bleak...

Yes I did go along to the reading. He's a very engaging speaker, intense and serious but also very funny - rather like his books, I suppose. I got him to sign my copy of Winterwood and told him how much I had enjoyed The Dead School: he said "this is a better book than The Dead School." Well...

Is this Exquisite Corpse by Robert Irwin? I read it about ten years ago, and can't remember much about it, but I'm pretty sure it was more full of his usual archaic cabbalistic erudition and bizarre happenings than blood and gore...?

All of McCabe's novels are a bit like that - or at least the three I've read are. The Butcher Boy and The Dead School share with Breakfast on Pluto an interest in highly eccentric narrative voice and grotesque violence (or as one reviewer called it, "grand Gaelic guignol"), intricately...

Interestingly, I read of the "For sale: Baby's shoes. Never used." story as being by F. Scott Fitzgerald... This wasn't from a reliable source though, so I don't doubt it was by Hemingway. Or I wonder if it's some sort of urban myth, and it wasn't a famous writer who came up with it at all?

Quarantine by Jim Crace.

I was going to say what Stewart said: I haven't heard of any of them so it's hard to add another person I haven't heard of. So instead I'll say this. Ron Atkinson. (Fired from sports broadcasting and newspaper column for saying of one player, "He's what some schools of thought would call a...

Yes hugh, I looked at the reviews posted in the blurb section on Amazon and wondered why I would want to read a book recommended by CEOs, financial directors, past presidents of movie studios, and other sociopathic misfits who have got no connection with the world of literature?

I'm not sure hugh009 is actually Robert Taylor, ions, hard though that may be to believe. But yes, disdain and disregard are still the appropriate responses. Why on earth would someone think ions, who has a record of being interested in interesting books, would want to touch a crappy financial...

No offence, hugh, but that Paradigm book by Robert Taylor that you keep mentioning (in three of your five posts so far) looks like it stinks to high heaven. The website is one of those dreadful jobs that looks like the worst kind of self-publicity by the sort of author who visits web forums and...

Arson I think only applies to buildings etc, MC. I agree anyway. Having a specific crime of desecrating the flag is a little pathetic in the 21st century. What are we, savages who worship a symbol? It's not really an issue over here, SFG. I don't even know if it's a crime in the UK, and...

However this page makes it clear that It's almost certain to have been done by a private contractor who is under contract with the body that runs Windsor Castle. Try the Contact Us link on this page and they might be able to put you in touch with the clamping company. Don't be too...

Well, it is a very big secret. (But you're right: February in fact. See here.)

Well said, Stew, SFG and beer good. I don't think I'll take any "You can't argue with the facts" advice from someone who chain-reads David Icke books. (Huxley's profile: "Currently Reading: david icke- the biggest secret. Reading Next: david icke-i am me i am free")

My age 33.6, "Real Age" 24.3! (You can guarantee I wouldn't have posted this if it had been the other way around.) Stewart, I just said Don't Know for all the doctory ones like cholesterol level. Anyway this reminds me of an old Alexei Sayle joke. "They say that every cigarette you smoke...

Heh - nice! I should come clean though and admit that the title was not my idea, but Stewart's, on another forum...