In our occasional feature we invite guests to select the six cultural links that might sustain them if, by some mischance, they were forced to spend eternity in a succession of airport departure lounges with only an iPad or similar device for company. Today's voyager is The Wartime Housewife, who dispenses ... Read More...
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Stephen Clarke is the author of A Year in the Merde and numerous other books which take an irreverent look at the French and at Anglo-Gallic relations. In an exclusive post for The Dabbler, he explains why Les Rosbifs have been irritating their continental neighbours for a millennium... 1000 Years of ... Read More...
This week's fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here) has been sent in by expert puzzler Adelephant. As usual, find the link between these cryptic clues. A point for each item you get, and an imaginary cream bun if you get them all. If you ... 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. We have handpicked this gem for you from the Autumn 09 edition, in which author Andrew Martin looks at the 'Upmanship' books of Stephen Potter... I first encountered ... Read More...
Ben Kay is a seriously talented chap. Not content with being an award-winning advertising creative and proprietor of a highly respected industry blog , he decided to turn his skills and his spare time to creating a high-octane blockbuster novel. The result, Instinct, an apocalyptic sci-fi thriller about deadly mutant ... Read More...
Judith Flanders' new book, The Invention of Murder (HarperCollins) takes a fascinating look at Victorian society through the prism of its obession with murder: the real-life cases where every gruesome detail is relished by a bloodthirsty press; and the ubiquity of murder in novels, plays and Victorian culture generally. The book has earned ... Read More...
Exclusively on The Dabbler, we have an alternative Royal Christmas Message from a certain Harry, who blogs at The Red Tuft... Dear Subjects (of my grandmother), It’s three o’clock on Christmas Day and, if any part of you is Englishman, you’ll be sat at home, nursing a mince pie, and watching this ... Read More...
Poacher is turning gamekeeper this week as brilliant puzzle-solver Adelephant poses her own fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here). But if she's disqualified from answering it, then who will? Time to step up to the plate, Dabblers, as they say these days. As usual, find ... Read More...
Ben Atherton is a Brisbane-based journalist, dad, misty-eyed expat and sometime blogger on books and bookmen at Biblioparrot. We welcome him to our small (and virtual) piece of the old country here at The Dabbler. Back in the good old days, when I was trying to get my first job on newspapers, ... Read More...
The Dabbler continues its Teutonic theme today with the inimitable Malty's response to Andrew Graham-Dixon's major new BBC Four series The Art of Germany... Recently launched was Andrew hyphen Dixon's new series on German art, many of the usual suspects of the period were included, many not. As an educator he is less ... Read More...
