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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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Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Wednesday 28 October 2009
My cars: a short guide. Part IV — my Datsun Cherry and its sad end
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Before I start, I should note that I am quite aware that an account of all the cars I have owned might not make the most interesting reading...
My cars: a short guide. Part III - addendum (and a PS)
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A reader has written in with comments about the 1300 and my guitar, so I thought I might add a little: 1) The 1300 was a great shagging car....
My cars: a short guide. Part III - My Austin 1300 and how I graduate from dodgy 'good runners' to something a little more respectable
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In October 1975, I joined the South Wales Argus as one of its district reporters and was based in Ebbw Vale. I was still running the Ford Co...
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Tuesday 27 October 2009
My cars: a short guide. Part II — a rustbucket Hillman Superminx and a slighly snazzier V4 Ford Corsair
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I had the Triumph for a month before it rolled down the hill and out of my life. As I said, my insurance agent just happened to be passing, ...
Saturday 24 October 2009
Don't count your chickens - you never know, one might get away
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Well, it all went well for a day, then this morning, while adding 'labels' to my previous entry on how my laptop is behaving again a...
Friday 23 October 2009
In praise of life's small mercies.
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It is quite odd how small, insignificant details can please us. A day or two ago, I wrote about my growing collection of laptops and why I b...
My cars: a short guide. Part I — A Triumph Herald, the wreck which was my first car
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My first car was a Triumph Herald. It was a complete wreck and a death-trap, although at the time I was as pleased as punch with it. I was 2...
Thursday 22 October 2009
I'll come clean: I don't have a sense of humour, or so spoof sci-fi 'buffs' would have you believe.
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I'm obviously in something of a chatty mood tonight, so after a little drama — Lifeline SouthWest rang to say my stepmother had fallen o...
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A third laptop (which is something of a luxury), a second set of the same faults on my first laptop, and a missed opportunity to be unethical
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Having sailed through rather choppy waters these past few days, this blog is pleased to announce that the following topic is neither controv...
Wednesday 21 October 2009
A kindly word of warning to all bloggers
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It is perhaps pertinent to point out that what a blogger records on his or her blog is, courtesy of the net — once known as the world wide w...
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