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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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Sunday, 26 September 2010
Huey Long, a socialist in a country which loathes socialists. He was gunned down at 42, though there's no suggestion the two are somehow linked
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Over these past few days, I have watched, virtually back to back, both film versions of All The Kings Men. The first, written and directed b...
Monday, 20 September 2010
Adolf Busch, an honest musician, and Tully Potter's biography of the man
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To room VG10 of the School of Oriental and African Studies in Vernon Sq., London, for the launch party for Tully Potter’s rather massive two...
Friday, 3 September 2010
Hague gay? Who gives a toss. I just hope he knows what he is doing
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It’s a truism in journalism that it isn’t the scandal which does the damage, but the subsequent cover-up. So it might be with William Hague,...
Monday, 30 August 2010
Want a successful career (and not just on a newspaper)? Just say Yes
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This picture (below) appears on page 27 of the Daily Mail on Monday, August 30, 2010. When a similar picture was lying around the picture de...
Friday, 27 August 2010
There’s one born every minute (more or less)
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I’ve just been reading that ‘a star with two Saturn-sized planets’ has been spotted by the US planet-hunting’ Kepler telescope and that scie...
Saturday, 21 August 2010
Hate mail in the shires or why it’s wisest to take nothing for granted, not even good manners among the self-regarding middle-class great and good
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The following is a true story. I don’t know whether it’s funny or sad, and I hope it doesn’t embarrass the chap involved. I work with him, a...
Saturday, 7 August 2010
God, no more, no less. Though there's rather less here than you might expect
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I live around ten miles from St Endellion church (I don’t think there is a village) which, for the past 30 years or so has held two music fe...
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Alfred Duggan, Evelyn Waugh and Bohemond, and why I should, perhaps, keep my mouth shut: a meditation on wisdom and stupidity
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I came across a claim today that in mid-life our brains undergo some kind of expansion and that is why we are, in our dotage, rather wiser t...
Monday, 26 July 2010
Hypochondriac*, nutter or neither? (*Wish someone had told me I'd spelled it wrong the first time round)
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I have acquired my own digital blood pressure monitor, and the answer to the question in the title to this blog entry – hypochondriac, nutte...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Message to Kate
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Hi Kate, I am on a different iBook and don't seem to have your email address with me. I have just got back from London and was trying ou...
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