I can’t really be bothered to look it up, but how much crime is there in Aberdeen? Nothing springs out at me from the deep mines of trivia I call my mind, except that some Wolverhampton based gangsters went to try and start the crack cocaine trade up there. It’s one of those statistics...

Swept up in the excitement and constant coverage of the US’s brand spanking new president elect I almost missed the fact that a writer whose work I admire and love very much has died today after a battle with cancer. Michael Crichton, for those who don’t know, was a best selling...

I am sad to say that a book that has the Doctor Who logo on the front has mooved me to tears, full on floods weeping inside and out tears. But on the plus side it is not for any geeky reason *rubs glasses with bottom of t-shirt* it has nothing to do with reading the sections of script where...

Ahoy my lovelies, I thought seeing as I hadn’t written anything properly for a while (slapped wrists Markie) I would start again with a topic close to my heart. Chocolate. More specifically, Chocolat; and even more specifically than that - Chocolat the novel, as opposed to the...

Yup its me again gushing about something that Neil Gaiman wrote, sang, sneezed, caughed, whispered gently into my ear etc etc. This is the 80′s love child of Gaiman and Pratchett documenting the final few days as the world spirals towards the apocalypse. But as it is these two lovely...

I am currently on a little bit of a Neil Gaiman bender and attempting to soak up all of his work befor I get sick of him. The next tale on my pile is his book Coraline which handily enough is due to hit cinema screens in March 2009, but trying to find a video or any information is like...