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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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Thursday, 28 October 2010
Are my soaps really better than yours? Shakespeare gets a brief look-in as do Lady Polly Toynbee and Lord Andrew Marr
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First there was The Sopranos, then Mad Men, then The Wire, at least in the sequence I came across them. In fact, Mad Men wasn’t premiered un...
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Monday, 25 October 2010
A short trip to Freiburg, a mad dash back to London, a great party and my father 'der Englischer Spion'
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It was off to Freiburg last Saturday for the 65th birthday party a distant cousin. The call came eight days ago, and as I was due to work th...
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Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Three separate pieces, the latter two featuring Andrew Marr, and the last also including a drunk acquaintance from Solihull
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Since signing up to something called Blogpatrol, which supplies a free counter, and becoming aware of the ‘stats’ facility offered here, I’v...
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
To kill off forever that old canard that 'the Germans don't have a sense of humour', I bring you Der Untertan and the satirical novelist Heinrich Mann
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My mother was German and my father was English. When I was very young, my mother spoke to my brother and myself in German, so although I did...
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Some autumn pictures from a small part of North Cornwall, all taken between 2.30 and 3.30pm today, Saturday, October 9, 2010
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I was chatting to a friend via my Facebook page (and exactly why I got one, I don't know. My sister, something of low-level geek, insist...
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Monday, 4 October 2010
A plea to all visitors
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... and I won't call you 'readers' because I have no idea whether you stay or skim a few lines, tell yourself it's awful and...
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Saturday, 2 October 2010
Statistics of dubious usefulness, The Sun, Kelvin McKenzie and a question: just how thick are Sun readers?
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Ever since I have been writing this blog, I’ve wondered whether anyone actually bloody reads it. Well, it seems some might be doing so. I sa...
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Friday, 1 October 2010
Bullshit, blogs and backgammon: a truly heartwarming account of one man's love and how his soul is redeemed by honesty.
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When anyone sets up a blog on this site, they are asked to list their ‘interests’. Well, I don’t know how honest others are when they jot do...
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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...
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