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Monday, 9 March 2026

Is anyone home in the White House? The lights are on but it seems empty there. Think about it - do you really want to waste American lives for nothing but an old man's fantastical pipe-dreams?


 

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  • The English Press: A History – Jeremy Black
  • We Don’t Know Ourselves – Fintan O’Toole
  • Nobody Hurt In Small Earthquake – Michael Green
  • Towards The End Of The Morning – Michael Frayn
  • A Crooked Sixpence – Murray Sayle
  • Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs
  • The Group – Mary McCarthy
  • Fear And Loathing In Fitzrovia – Paul Willetts
  • The Daughter Of Time – Josephine Tey
  • The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life Of Ernest Hemingway – Richard Bradford
  • The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett
  • To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
  • Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
  • Hemingway: a biography — Mary Dearborn
  • The True Gen - Denis Brian
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  • Running With Bulls — Valerie Hemingway
  • The Sea — John Banville
  • Berlin Game — Len Deighton
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  • Victim (1961)
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