July, 2021 | Going Postal

Book Review: Imagining A Murder

1st July 2021 Going Postal 0

Once Upon a Moonlit Provence Night . . . author David Sedgwick reveals why he just had to write the story of a brutal, unsolved 1973 murder. Hands up who remembers the name Jeremy Cartland? [more…]

Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike

1st July 2021 Roger Ackroyd 0

There have been a number of books on the disaster that overran Oradour-sur-Glane on Saturday June 10th 1944 but this is the first one that I have read that finely details the lives of the [more…]

“Our” NHS

1st July 2021 Rookwood 0

Of all the institutions I have observed and indeed, commented on, the NHS is probably the most frustrating one to portray in simple terms. The UK’s largest employer, with approaching 1.6 million staff, it dwarfs [more…]