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Book reviews
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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
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
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
Mrs Hemingway — Naomi Wood
Saturday — Ian McEwan
Berlin Game — Len Deighton
Decline And Fall — Evelyn Waugh
The Colour — Rose Tremain
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Film reviews
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Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Thursday 25 July 2019
In which I confess to an ongoing bout of ‘out of sortism’ (and wonder whether Boris Johnson will come crashing down this week or next)
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Since losing the puzzles (which I think I mentioned) and being aware that my annual income has plummeted by pretty much a third, I’ve been f...
Tuesday 16 July 2019
Give and take? It’s has to be a two-way street. Always. And as for gentle summer evenings . . . a boy, even one batting 70, can still dream
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This is also going in my main blog: I wrote this piece in a fit of irritation going on anger a week or two ago. If you read it, you will u...
Sunday 14 July 2019
Ain’t nothing going to do it except doing it. So why am I still pfaffing around?
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OK, I know exactly what I should be doing but I’m not doing it. It’s not rocket science. There is not great shakes about it: I should be get...
Friday 12 July 2019
Sorry about this, but — completely unplanned — I began jotting down a few comments and being the sort who really can’t shut up . . .
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Oh, what have I let myself in for? Just read the introduction to a book of five essays on Hemingway’s ‘first’ novel (it was his second, in f...
Monday 8 July 2019
Another damned thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Mr Wolfe?
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Well, as I’m serious about getting this Hemingway bollocks completed, and as I want to prove to myself that the reading this, that and t’oth...
Thursday 27 June 2019
Joe Bitter writes: the Golden Goose has flown
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Well, the golden goose has fucked off. The puzzles work is no more. For the past ten years I have been earning extra from the Daily Mail b...
Tuesday 11 June 2019
Four short videos to keep the pot boiling . . .
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One of the little things I enjoy doing is taking a track I like, then hunting down images to add to the music to make a short video. Here ...
Sunday 2 June 2019
Want to do something instead of frittering away your life? Read. And don’t ever allow yourself to be persuaded that running around like a blue-arsed fly is actually ‘doing’ anything. When something is ‘done’ you need more than a pile of shopping to prove it
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I should imagine it happens to everyone every so often, but for some reason I have been feeling very restless for these past few days and ab...
Thursday 16 May 2019
The road to salvation if you want to provide astonishing party small talk, impress those dumb enough to be impressed and want to cut a dash: read The Economist. (NB You won’t find it in doctors’ or dentists’ waiting rooms and you’ll have to buy it but there’s a downside to most things, eh?)
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For several years in the 1980s and 1990s I was rather impressed by my younger brother’s knowledge - and not just his general knowledge, but ...
Monday 29 April 2019
Well, crims in the family! I knew about the spy - well, the sort of spy - but crims eh! An everyday folk of country folk, one of whom apparently was not above skinning turds
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That, of course, is a huge exaggeration, but what would one of my posts be without a least one bucketful of bullshit. The question is rhetor...
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