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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, 28 March 2011
Why greens make me often see red, and a question: did Gandhi bat for the other side?
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There is something very odd about the following: the West is 'concerned' about global warming and the EU sets targets to cut the emi...
Friday, 25 March 2011
Life, my children and what are birds saying? And will it get worse or just very, very bad?
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We've come a long way as far as animals are concerned and believe we know a lot more about them. Undoubtedly, future research will demon...
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
They weren't planning four years of wholesale slaughter, but it happened anyway
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Here in Britain we have a series of short books called [whatever you’re interested in]: A Very Short Introduction. ‘Whatever your’re interes...
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Monday, 14 March 2011
The world has lost the plot: the BBC provides the proof. And after that there's one for the boys (and sporting gals)
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I know it is an article of faith for us centenarians that the world and everything in it is disappearing up its own arse, but I do now think...
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Saturday, 12 March 2011
A pub bore apologises, a pretty picture (well, strictly speaking two) and a complaint
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This blog has been going through something of an minor existential crisis these past few days. I mean: what is it? It started out as just an...
Saturday, 5 March 2011
Dining with the Devil - it's great while it lasts. And a couple of shorts
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When does a saying become a cliché? Well, I don’t know. All I know is that one thing many sayings and clichés have in common is that they in...
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Who discovered olives and coffee? And enjoy the good times, they might not last much longer
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There are several questions which, even at the ripe old age of 104, I have yet to find answers. As they are of the kind of question a child ...
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Kenny pledges to ‘get tough’ with the bankers - well, it’s expected of him isn’t it, that nice Mr Obama (and one more short film)
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With a bit of luck, Ireland’s bankers are getting a little bit nervous this weekend with a pledge by the incoming taoiseach Enda Kenny to la...
Friday, 25 February 2011
Ireland voters manage without Simon Cowell. For the very chic: human breast milk ice-cream. And let the bad times roll...
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It must be very much like cleaning up a house after a flood and equally dispiriting. Today, voters in the Republic go to the polls to vote i...
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Our pal Gaddafi - taking the rough with the smooth. He's reformed, don't you know. Oh, and another video
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One consequence of this job is that you do tend to have heard it all before. Add to that the fact that whichever way I look at it, I shall n...
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