December round-up Although he’s been writing and performing for many years, Donald WG Lindsay might come across as a bold new Scottish talent on Two Boats Under the Moon, his excellent two-disc debut

Lives and how to live them

A war of nerves

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings ...

Tales of the uncanny from a master of ambiguity

Two new bachelors do drugs, watch movies and, it turns out, make history.