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Books
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Down Cemetery Road – Mick Herron
The House Of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
Tender Is The Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Mrs Hemingway — Naomi Wood
Saturday — Ian McEwan
Berlin Game — Len Deighton
Decline And Fall — Evelyn Waugh
The Colour — Rose Tremain
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Films
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The Big Sleep (1946)
The House Of Mirth
Mulholland Drive
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Thursday, 26 February 2009
Scottish bar stool for Scots who wear a kilt
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The Scots, it seems, who are an immensely practical and canny nation, have long been proud of their traditions. However, for many of those w...
Sexy accents — there's at least one for all of us. These are mine
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Apropos nothing at all, I was walking out of the office yesterday and walked past one of the temps who is standing on for the specialists...
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Sunday, 22 February 2009
Going to the dogs — one down-and-out's view
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I took my daughter and her friend to Plymouth last Friday. She wanted to buy Babyliss curling tongs, look at clothes and get presents for he...
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Elsie takes to the kitchen ...
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Today my daughter Elsie is planning to cook my wife's birthday meal, and what she lacks in experience, she certainly makes up for in ent...
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Friday, 13 February 2009
Young, old, under the knife or just a sucker for pills - we all die some time.
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By the way, when I went to Google images to dig out a piccy of Tchaikovsky, I came across quite a few of the man, and one (or it might have ...
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Peter Tchaikovsky, Don Ameche, a first piano concerto and why snobs of all stripes are a waste of space
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Why do so many classical music lovers look down on Tchaikovsky? Not everyone, by any means, but an unfortunate and unfortunately large numbe...
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
And earlier that night . . .
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This footage was taken at the Mall Galleries on The Mall in London. (For those who know London, the Admiralty Arch is one end, Buckingham Pa...
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A vision in blue for those unaccustomed to the ethereal beauty of London's Underground railway system (i.e. video footage taken at Victoria).
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As title. What else is there to say? Except that all is nought, one is one, and one and one are two. After that, as far as the maths is conc...
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
What exactly is attraction and why are/aren't we attracted against the odds?
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I have at least one reader who takes an interest in these things, so I thought I might touch upon attraction. What is it? How reliable is it...
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Monday, 9 February 2009
Elsie and Wesley, my daughter and son
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These two pictures were both taken several years ago. My daughter was then about seven and is now 12, and my son was then about two and is n...
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