Schultz, the IPKat can offer three villains to start the ball rolling:* The IPKat's favourite (sic), Count Fosco (Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White), of whom a contemporary reviewer wrote, in 1862, "No villain of the century, so far as we are aware, comes within a hundred miles of him: he is more real, more genuine, more Italian even, in his fatness and size, in his love of pets and pastry, than the whole array of conventional Italian villains, elegant and subtle, whom we are… [read post]

SONGS* ABOUT BOOKS & AUTHORS *and some Monty Python and Beat Poetry Click Here for link to Spotify Playlist Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 Deborah Pardes – 7th StepMonty Python – A Book At Bedtime Jason Anderson – A Book Laid On It's BindingAngus & Julia Stone – A Book Like ThisBenny's Head – A Bookish GirlAdam's Plastic Pond – A Brief History of English LiteratureThe Gentle Waves – A Chapter in the Life of… [read post]

  Click Here for link to Spotify Playlist Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 Deborah Pardes – 7th StepMonty Python – A Book At Bedtime Jason Anderson – A Book Laid On It's BindingAngus & Julia Stone – A Book Like ThisBenny's Head – A Bookish GirlAdam's Plastic Pond – A Brief History of English LiteratureThe Gentle Waves – A Chapter in the Life of MathewTom Waits – A Good Man Is Hard To FindTelevision Personalities –… [read post]