You don’t get to be a senior investigating officer unless you have a degree in scepticism, an MA in distrust and your CV lists suspicious bastard under your hobbies.
When it’s still—when it’s the cellar of a house, or a ring of mushrooms in a forest or a gun emplacement outside Offenburg—it’s called one of two things. If it remains static and unchanging then we ca...
Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge, said Stephanopoulos. He was a student at St. Martins College.
The rise and fall of Teresa Cornelys proves three things: that the wages of sin are high, that you should just say no to opera, and that it’s always wise to diversify your investment portfolio.
Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that’ Dizzy Gillespie
It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life.
I suspected Molly wanted the pictures to send to her friends on Twitter and Facebook, the ones that I was not supposed to know about. I didn’t dare ask because we have an unspoken agreement—I don’t qu...
I offered her the flowers, which she took with a delightful laugh. She pulled my head down and kissed me on the cheek. She smelled of cigars and new car seats, horses and furniture polish, Stilton, Be...
He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.
He said it was wife’s idea to name their daughter after him but I didn’t believe him. Could have been worse, I decided. It could have been Nigella.
Fenians,
As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.
As a typical Londoner, Gurcan had a high tolerance for random thoughtlessness; after all, if you live in the big city there's no point complaining that it's a big city, but even that tolerance has its...
A lifetime of disappointment had made him cynical, but you don’t stay an activist without a core of stubborn belief that things can get better – it’s a bit like being a Spurs supporter really.
Good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
You shouldn’t make jokes about these things, she said. Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know. It’s got all the best questions, though,
Welcome to the Folly, he said. Official home of English magic since 1775. And your patron saint is Sir Isaac Newton? I asked. Nightingale grinned. He was our founder and the first man to systemize the...
There's more to life than just London, said Nightingale.People keep saying that, I said. But I've never actually seen any proof.
The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who’d been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead.
Street towards Covent Garden. There was