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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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Sunday 10 May 2020
Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 8 Amandala by Dave Fiuczynski
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I came across Dave Fiuczynski by chance but I’m bloody glad I did. For once this might be touted as an album which, if it didn’t exactly cha...
Saturday 9 May 2020
Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 7 Purple Rain by Prince
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One morning, at about 7.30pm, at 45 Milner Road in Kings Heath, Birmingham, in the early 1980s I was woken by my clock radio to a song which...
Friday 8 May 2020
Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 6 Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
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I’m sure like me everyone reading this can recount several instances in their life which they, for one reason or another, believe they will ...
Thursday 7 May 2020
Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 5 Symphonies No 40 and No 41 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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With this entry of my ten albums, and I must admit this is a bit of a rule-breaker (if there are any rules): I don’t know what the album was...
Wednesday 6 May 2020
Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 4 Tutu by Miles Davis
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I understand there are parts of middle-class, pretentious Britain where it is de rigueur to ‘just love’ Miles Davis, even if you know nothi...
Monday 4 May 2020
Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 3 Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan
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In 1968 when I was released from boarding school, I somehow scraped into university. It’s wondrous what two A-level poor Es (in chemistry an...
Sunday 3 May 2020
Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 2 Aja by Steely Dan
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Here is the second album of the ten I’ve been asked to nominate that stands out for me. It will come as no surprise to some of my friends: i...
Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 1 A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles
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As the text below (lifted from my Facebook page) tells you, one of the challenges going the rounds while everyone and her/his dog is locked ...
Friday 24 April 2020
Roll up, roll up and read some short stories. Oh, and beware of shysters who are everywhere (not that I’m one, I haven’t got the nous). And a few more spoof headlines for good measure
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About 15 months ago, I came across a website that I’ve found very useful. I think I was scouring the net for outlets for short stories (whic...
Sunday 29 March 2020
Life as we see it (through the bottom of glass of a treble gin ’n tonic)
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