Dan Worth's Blog

About 3/4 of the way through Midnight's Children and it is thoroughly excellent. Often I'd heard of it, the "Booker of Bookers...

After my minor whale infatuation last summer I wasn't that surprised to unwrap a copy of the 1956 version of Moby-Dick on Boxing Day (...

Last night I caught the last 25 minutes or so of sci-fi flop Armageddon on BBC3 (another great justification for its existence right there)....

So a quarter through Midnight's Children by some unknown author called Salaam Rusden and I have to say I am thoroughly enjoying it. As ...

I played my first sets of tennis of the year on Saturday. Very enjoyable it was too. Most courts seem quieter in the months before Wimbledon...

What do I do all day? Drive around all the roads of the UK, or Australia, or Chile. I get up and drive, I drive up and down streets. I see t...

I re-read a book recently. Not something I do very often. Only The Great Gatsby can I remember re-reading before. Once, when forced to at un...

When you buy new shoes there is always a period of some one or two weeks in which they are clearly new. Everyone will say, "New shoes?!...

I was in Hannover over the last three days. What a jolly time it was. Currywurst, Schtnizel, Ham for Breakfast, lovely. I found the people v...

What did he want to buy on the plane so desperately anyway?

I read The Thirty-Nine steps recently. It was awful. Truly terrible. Full of bizarre, utterly implausible 'as luck would have it' m...

So said Shakespeare anyway. But, this was in a time before pub quizzes and microphones. He would have thought differently if he ever played ...

Okay Marion, concentrate, four years training, you can do this. Focus, remember what coach told you, hit the start hard, get some early spee...

Stood outside Oxford Street tube last night while it was closed due to overcrowding me and the rest of the impotent mass of post-work worker...