Note :Tim Butcher is officially a diamond geezer. He's just joined Goodreads and read my review below and still sent me a thank you message today. Rereading the below review, I think some authors could have taken umbrage because, well, it's actually quite cheeky. The word pompous is used. Some fu...
What about the Rhythm Method, I hear you ask? Well, do you know what you call a woman who uses the Rhythm Method? Mum. I’m in Brazil. I know. It’s a long way to go for a wax. In fact I’m in the equivalent of an unwaxed pudenda – the north east of the country, Maranhao, on the edge of the rainfore...
As Arnie gabbled away about never having had a hike to match the one we had just shared, I felt quietly relieved that we had made it safely on foot through some of Bosnia’s more mine-contaminated backwoods. The walk had given me a sense of how far Gavrilo Princip had come when the ‘weak boy’ left...
It has tarmac roads busy with traffic, shops selling imported goods, a music scene as prolific as any in Africa, even a swanky hotel where the doors are opened by swipecards. After all that I had seen on my journey, Kinshasa felt as if it did not even belong in the Congo.Despite these first-world...