The Reverend Garibaldi McFlurry

It was his debut novel, and it may still be his best one, even after such a prolific writing career. The brutality of the initial crime gre...

Before the Christmas rush began, we had a week in Boston over the Thanksgiving period. Some sightseeing, some shopping - a great holiday, ev...

JFK is one of those enigmatic figures who dominate the stage of world history. With the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination approachi...

With so many books published, you might wonder if John Grisham's talent would start to wane. After all, how could he possibly keep his ...

From this side of the Atlantic Ocean, the game of baseball seems like a glorified version of rounders. A game which our American cousins ge...

I've been slowly but surely working my way through the Colin Bateman back catalogue since discovering his first puntastic comic novel o...

We often complain about Christmas coming earlier and earlier each year. It is a bit ridiculous when the Hallowe'en and Christmas decorat...

So good they named it twice. On Saturday we got back from a week in New York City, glad of the break, but glad also to be back in peaceful F...

I've mentioned previously that John Grisham is one of my favourite authors, and he retains that title after his latest book, The Confess...

William Crawley has reported that CIEF, EFIC, New Wine and Reform Ireland have published a joint statement ahead of the proposed consecrati...

One of the highlights of our recent trip to New York was an afternoon in the American Museum of Natural History . The crowds were (as with e...

Here's a little video clip of an acapella group we saw performing on the sidewalk as we came off the (free) Staten Island Ferry having s...

So good, they named it twice. Or so it goes. We're now back in sunny Dundonald, and New York is becoming a memory. We were on the late n...

The 4th of July is the Day of Independence for Americans, but seven years ago, it was also our Independence Day. In 2002, our graduation fro...

Over at Gigapan, there's an incredible photo on view at present. It's from the Inauguration of President Barack Obama , and is so de...

Kevin DeYoung , one of the co-authors of Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be) , has recently started a blog, and this morn...

Today, Barak Obama makes history, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. His rallying cry during the presidentia...

The day has finally arrived. Election Day in the USA. After a mammoth campaign which has lasted almost two years, the American public get to...

So there we are... five years on from one of the 'big' terrorist shocks of recent times - although coming from Northern Ireland, ter...