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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, 28 May 2009
The Curse of The New
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Is it my age or is it the fact that for the past 35 years I have worked in an industry in which cynicism it the norm. I don't know. I am...
Monday, 25 May 2009
Dreaming of losing my teeth — very unwelcome I'm a-Freud
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I had an odd dream last night: all my teeth started falling out one by one. A girl at work said it was a sex dream, a dream expressing the f...
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Friday, 8 May 2009
On holidays and looking forward to time off
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Holiday plans might well be taking shape, thank God, because I need a break. First off, I have sold the travel desk on a piece about going o...
Friday, 1 May 2009
There's one born every minute
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Got home last Wednesday and took to my bed these past two days with a cold. Trouble is that what with the general panic about 'swine flu...
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Advice Part Two — is this TOO cynical, or can we find common ground?
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I must tread carefully here for fear of hurting feelings (and you know who you are), but it might well be worthwhile, sooner rather than lat...
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Advice — embrace or avoid?
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Reaching the grand age of 25 next November (the 21st, and all birthday cards will be welcomed), I have had a number of snippets of advice pa...
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Friday, 17 April 2009
Depression — a short, layman's account
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I've been rapped over the knuckles for neglecting this blog, so if I explain why that has happened, as a blog entry, I can kill two bird...
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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