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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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Monday, 16 March 2009
Naive until well into middle age, or how this idiot also fell for the myth
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This might sound odd, but looking back I wish to God I had attended mixed sex schools all my life, because in one crucial way, life might ha...
Saturday, 14 March 2009
What with the credit crunch, global warming, dumbing-down and farmers' markets, something to cheer you all
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The title says it all, really. A nice sunny day, coming across Joe Pass's version of Autumn Leaves, my camera and North Cornwall looking...
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Stupid, stupid, stupid doodles...
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Here is the proof, if proof were needed, that some of us have far too much time on our hands. Oscar and Bafta nominations to the usual addre...
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Monday, 2 March 2009
And you think blogging is easy? Think again, and think blood, sweat and tears
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It has been pointed out to me that non-bloggers who restrict themselves simply to reading what we dedicated bloggers produce are unaware of ...
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...
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