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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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Monday, 3 January 2011
Ah, the joy of a free Press: which can (apparently) hang, draw and quarter us at will; Estonia goes for broke - it would seem literally
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Like most countries, England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Scotland has its own legal system) try to ensure that those who come before its co...
Saturday, 1 January 2011
Sicily, The Leopard, food, Burt Lancaster, Visconti and was Dirk Bogarde merely ham or just a very bad actor?
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There was an interesting programme on TV the other night (and I watched it on iPlayer) by the Italian food bod Antonio Carlucci about the no...
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Friday, 31 December 2010
Stay interested to live for ever: the man who disagreed but the Guardian thinks it's worth a punt
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The big news of the week is that, quite apart from not being able to retire at 65, the government is now insisting that we all live to be at...
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
Tweedledum and Tweedledee - note the ‘twee’ - gather on The Archers messageboard. And an invitation to all living ‘abroad’
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Well, I think I’ve emerged from my dust-up with the goods folks who haunt The Archers messageboard reasonably unscathed. I’m not too sure wh...
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Monday, 27 December 2010
The Archers: urban fantasy or just pie in the sky? Baby give birth to Elton John, plus the joy of self-delusion
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Through an odd quirk of fate, one or two fans of The Archers might find their way to this blog to check up on whether I really do exist. Ear...
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Sunday, 26 December 2010
The only thing merrily ringing out are the shop tills
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Why is it that I can get irritated by how Christmas is regarded as just another ‘business opportunity’ by manufacturers and our shops, and a...
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Pretentious? Moi? Or so some believe. And a Lib Dem safe pair of hands fall flat on his keister
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You’ll hear it here first: I am narcissistic, pompous, arrogant, pretentious, condescending and stupid, or, at least, that is what some memb...
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Saturday, 18 December 2010
An unlikely stitch-up, but Assange gets all the glory while young Bradley is held out to dry
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The Wikileaks/arrest of Julian Assange saga rumbles on. Assange has now been granted bail after well-wishers stumped up £250,000 surety and ...
Thursday, 16 December 2010
The horror that is Wagner and Shutter Island
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One could argue that a feature of great art is that it can be hugely divisive: some think it’s great and others think it’s not. An example w...
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Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Dick and Dora guide you through the euro crisis, why China now thinks Marx wrote a crock of shit. And have a good laugh at a silly name
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LATE UPDATE: This is how Germany is reacting. And on it goes. Spain is now in the firing line of government bond speculators with the ‘yield...
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