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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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Saturday, 4 July 2009
Taking a break from work — boy is it hard.
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Every week, I drive up to London from home in North Cornwall or drive to Exeter and take the train to London, work for four days, then come ...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
What should this picture be called? Suggestions, please, on a postcard to the usual address
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In another context, I mentioned to someone that I wrote this blog, and I realised I have been neglecting it, so I thought I might pay it a l...
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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...
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