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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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Friday, 13 November 2009
My cars: a short guide. Part VII - the Cardiff years, my second 2CV, two Austin Allegros and a bloody awful Vauxhall Chevette
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My second 2CV gave very good service and saw me through my bleak months of unemployment and landing a job as a sub on the South Wales Echo i...
PS to 'Isn't noise great?'
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Yesterday, I heard a Radio 4 programme by Alastair Campbell waxing lyrical about Jacques Brel. I don't speak French, and although I know...
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Schnittke and Scriabin and my fondness for the noise they make.
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Sir Thomas Beecham is said to have remarked that ‘the English don’t understand music, but they like the noise it makes’. Before googling tha...
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
60 is looming (and other less trivial matters)
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At midnight, in ten days, I shall be 60. Curiously, I don’t care, but I must admit that I can hardly believe it. It seems like only last wee...
Monday, 9 November 2009
Blogging, the ontology of blogs and why I would rather keep a commonplace book than write some interminable, boring account of the . . .
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A longwinded resume of the cars I have owned and crashed is not of interest to everyone. I realise that, and it also occurred to me that if ...
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My cars: a short guide. Part VI - A massive Vauxhall Victor, a Simca, two 2CVs, naivety and a valuable lesson learned
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The Vauxhall Victor, which succeeded my Triumph Toledo after that car’s sudden end, had only one thing in its favour: it was powerful. I can...
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Saturday, 7 November 2009
Now I know why Somerset Maugham had such a bad reputation - rather unfairly, in my view
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I heard the final part of the adaptation of Selina Hastings’ biography of Somerset Maugham on Radio 4, and the rancour against him, which I ...
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Thursday, 5 November 2009
My front tooth - note, tooth, not teeth. A lesson for us all who are flirting with late middle-age
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And now for something completely different, not to say veering on the banal. When I first went to work at the Daily Mail on the features sub...
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Somerset Maugham and a warning that first impression might well not be all the are cracked up to be
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Radio 4’s Book Of The Week this week is The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings. I’ve so far only read a few of Maugham’s sh...
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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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