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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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Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Jesus The Terrorist: a book knocking around the office which has caught my eye and which I shall read. Might well be bollocks . . .
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Here at I work last night, I came across a book provocatively entitled Jesus The Terrorist, and after spending a few minutes reading the blu...
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Saturday, 31 October 2009
My cars: a short guide. Part V - My Triumph Toledo and another sad end
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After the undignified end suffered by my Datsun and I had sold it to my dope dealer (which sounds a lot more louche than was the reality), I...
Friday, 30 October 2009
Modern dilemmas: an occasional series.
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I have called this Modern Dilemmas, but actually the dilemma is age-old - only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. In fact, n...
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An afternoon with Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde. Could have done without Dirk Baby. Ham? Yes, and then some
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The Daily Mail is giving away a set of 'Hollywood Classic' films, i.e. tat which otherwise no one in their right mind would consider...
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Thursday, 29 October 2009
Blogging: when will it end?
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This blogging is getting to be a habit and it seems that so far I have written 419 entries this week alone. When will it end? What will end ...
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009
My cars: a short guide. Part IV — my Datsun Cherry and its sad end
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Before I start, I should note that I am quite aware that an account of all the cars I have owned might not make the most interesting reading...
My cars: a short guide. Part III - addendum (and a PS)
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A reader has written in with comments about the 1300 and my guitar, so I thought I might add a little: 1) The 1300 was a great shagging car....
My cars: a short guide. Part III - My Austin 1300 and how I graduate from dodgy 'good runners' to something a little more respectable
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In October 1975, I joined the South Wales Argus as one of its district reporters and was based in Ebbw Vale. I was still running the Ford Co...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009
My cars: a short guide. Part II — a rustbucket Hillman Superminx and a slighly snazzier V4 Ford Corsair
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I had the Triumph for a month before it rolled down the hill and out of my life. As I said, my insurance agent just happened to be passing, ...
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Don't count your chickens - you never know, one might get away
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Well, it all went well for a day, then this morning, while adding 'labels' to my previous entry on how my laptop is behaving again a...
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