The Compleat Traveller

The elderly Jean Rhys (at left) at her home in Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon ... With the temperature across New York City heading for the...

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains , by Owen Wister was published in 1902, and is said to be the first ‘true Western’ ever written. ...

~  I suspect that I am like most inveterate readers, in that I often have more than one book underway at any particular time. I don’t know...

  Back in February, in a post titled, Writers From Life’s Other Side  I wrote about how over the past few years I have been seeking out w...

During one of my periodic trawls through the Gutenberg website , I spotted a recent upload for The Silicon Jungle , which was published in...

Peter Temple is one of Australia's best crime writer’s. He is a five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award, Australia's most prestigi...

Apex Hides The Hurt , by Colson Whitehead, was the first book I read at the beginning of January to kick off my 52-Book-Year Challenge . F...

A small selection of books bought this year Over the past few years I have made a point of seeking out writers that have never been on ...

Just a few of the eBooks on my iPad  Welcome to my 52-book-year challenge. I have always been an avid reader. My mother used to recall ...

In The Coming , Daniel Black recounts the horror surrounding the capture of hundreds of native Africans, the weeks-long sea journey to A...

Screen shot of MetPublications Portal During my 2010 visit to New York City, I paid a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (colloqui...