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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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Wednesday, 30 December 2009
A PS
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A few years ago, in fact, many years ago - it was in 1990 - I mentioned something to my girlfriend at the time and she, being French and, pe...
Monday, 28 December 2009
Something which has been knocking around my head for a few years now, but examined here in a none-to-clear way. And rather at length.
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Earlier today, on my way to work (just a 20-minute walk, which must be unique for a commute in London), I was listening to Start The Week on...
Monday, 21 December 2009
A contrarian writes
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I have now looked up the word 'contrarian', and it seems that I have used it correctly, although as I suspected it could well be arg...
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Introducing Matt, our obsession with 'heritage', why global warming is a tragedy/godsend (delete as applicable) and the art of faking knowledge
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One of our better newspaper cartoonist is Matt of the Daily Telegraph, so I have decided to post four of his recent cartoons, just for the c...
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Monday, 14 December 2009
The rise and fall of a literary genius, or how we can effortlessly fool ourselves at any age.
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For a guy who had wanted ‘to be a writer’ since the age of 16, I still feel I am appallingly badly read and, more to the point, I have, to d...
Thursday, 10 December 2009
My cars: a short guide. Part IX - this interminable account is finally concluded but not before several Rovers reach a sticky end
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I did promise a final instalment of this account of my motoring history, and I am determined to show I am a man of my word, however much it ...
Saturday, 5 December 2009
An sincere apology to a previous reader, how we can be extremely insensitive without meaning to be and, perhaps, a lesson learnt
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I have one follower who has come out and declared herself. You will see a link to her blogs to the right of these words. I also have another...
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Thursday, 3 December 2009
A share tip from a certified sucker who is otherwise highly sceptical of ‘a sure thing’
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Looking through this blog and the different entries in order to track down any literals and other cock-ups which have so far remained unspot...
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Monday, 30 November 2009
Why the Daily Mail always scores so well: ignore the wiseacres — nostalgia is
still
what it used to be. Big bucks
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I shall be hated for saying this by every last progressive in the land - and if such admirable folk living further afield also know or know ...
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Monday, 23 November 2009
Wise words not to be ignored. From those who know...
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After publishing my last entry, I did a bit of hunting around on the net to come up with these quotations. I hope they amuse you. But more t...
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