Our friends at Slightly Foxed (the real readers' quarterly - buy a subscription now!) have once again kindly allowed The Dabbler to dip into its rich archives. In this article from the Autumn 2004 edition (issue 3),author Julia Keay recounts a remarkable river journey... I guess (but I don’t know, since it’s not often ... Read More...
About Author Profile: Guest
Martin Morgan is a Welsh blogger, exiled to England for his love of fine living. His main achievements are founding the Cymru Rouge hyper-nationalist fraction and coining the word "chwerthfawr". Andrew Rawnsley, in his excellent book on New Labour ,"Servants of the People", refers to Wales as Scotland’s “ugly sister”. This is a ... Read More...
Ben Atherton is a Brisbane-based journalist, dad, misty-eyed expat and sometime blogger on books and bookmen at Biblioparrot. Back in the good old days, when I was trying to get my first job on newspapers, a standard interview question was: "Why do you want to become a journalist?". The standard answer ... Read More...
Noseybonk is away this week, conducting an interview with non-plagiarising columnist Johann Hari for a special piece next week. In his stead, guest society correspondent Jasper Huddlestone-Huddlestone picks his favourite wines to go with cocaine. It was during one of my periodic binges when I realised that my little brother, Tobias, had ... Read More...
Jason Webster is the author of five books on Spain, including Duende, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Or the Bull Kills You is the first in a series of detective novels involving Chief Inspector Max Cámara of the Spanish National Police. The second novel, Some Other Body ... Read More...
Back in November 2010, The Dabbler stumbled across this rather extraordinary and wonderful project - a family tree tracing British pub names and signs. The pub genealogist himself - graphic designer Jonathan Chadwick - kindly supplied us with an up-to-date version of the Pub Tree (click the image for the ... Read More...
In a special guest post, author Sam Llewellyn explains why people misunderstand the purpose of maritime fiction, and why he founded the Marine Quarterly magazine... Brrring, went the telephone. Hello, said a woman’s voice, I am a researcher for Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 and we are doing a programme on ... Read More...
Our friends at Slightly Foxed (the real readers' quarterly - buy a subscription now!) have once again kindly allowed The Dabbler to dip into its rich archives. In this corker -- originally entitled A Rum Do -- from the Spring 2007 edition (issue 14),author Linda Leatherbarrow looks at W E Bowman's classic ... Read More...
Hello, this is Elif Batuman guest-blogging from Istanbul! Do you use a Kindle? Do people tell you things like, “Oh, you use a Kindle, but for me reading isn’t reading without the sound/ feel/ sight of a bound book”? Finally there is an answer for you, and for them! This answer ... Read More...
Here's this week's devilishly fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here) is supplied by quiz-whizz Adelephant. As usual, find the link between these cryptic clues. A point for each item you get, and an imaginary cream bun of regal proportions if you get them ... Read More...
