C. S. BOAG

A lot of water's gone under the bridge since i last wrote an entry. If you write for a living you don't feel like doing it in your spare time.

I've got older. Funny thing to say, I know, but you're a different person when you're old just like you as a child are barely r...

Well, he's the big one, apart from Dasheill and Raymond, that is,  a master of the genre- slick, fast and good with the verbs.. To my surprise, I find that he only died recently, having written  a few Alfred Hitchock Presents on the way.
The Big Money starts in a...

Another day, another work of pulp fiction, this time The Big Sin (they're always the Big Something), a tour de force in this demanding genre by Jack Webb.

How good it is. A single suicide turns into a cause celebre when a catholic priest challenges the verdict- he knows...

A friend lent me this book over Christmas- "you might know one of the players," she said. I was familiar with only a few but I know the times. I am 73, only a few years younger than Whiteley would have been had he lived.
But he didn't of course, dead of an (accidental)...

This is one of a rush of new books on this topic of which i am aware.
 The brain's a weird creature- even to try to understand what it is about is nyh impossible for someone like me with a middle-sized brain. We just have to have faith that the people writing about it...

One test I've taken to applying to books is that of memory: is it memorable?. It is an unfair test in one way- at 73 , my memory isn't what it used to be, if it ever was. But it has interesting results, nonetheless.
It is only a couple of days since i finished Bereft,...

Graham Greene, for me, will be forever intriguing. A true writer, his mind and life are as intriguing as his own literature. This work attempts to shed light on a tiny cameo of that life - on Catherine -, the third woman of the title( more like 63rd) as well as the dar...

The Name of the protagonist-derived from the great critic, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch is indicative of the standard of writing. Adam Hall, who was Elliston Trevor, was a great writer.

Quiller knows psychology and physiology like the back of his gun hand even though he doe...

Hot on the heels of the book by Churchill, this little gem produced in 1964. I don't know about you but, for me, finding a book that suits can be elusive.

Well, this one suited me. Mills is reasonable and pragmatic. The book is packed with do's and don'ts which aren't t...