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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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Saturday, 25 June 2011
Good times, bad times, you know we’ll have our share. And why some idiots are still banging on about ‘ever closer integration’. All together now: Shut up!
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My mother was born in Germany in 1920, two years after the end of World War I, and like the rest of use, she was probably not aware of anyth...
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Save me from committee men, those who live by the rules, Roundheads and anti-semites. And a cheery hello to all my readers
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You don’t have to be into the Universal Brotherhood of Man to believe that at heart, we’re all pretty much the same. OK, cultures vary widel...
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Monday, 20 June 2011
As the shit gets ever closer to the fan in Greece . . .
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When I was still a young lad, I, like many other young girls and boys, imagined that ‘grown-ups’ were more intelligent and knew what they we...
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Why we might forego a silly season this year as the world heats up, but don’t East Anglian dwile flonkers and the Duke of Portland’ shyness can step up (courtesy of Ben le Vay).
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Traditionally, for newspapers August is the ‘silly season’ when news becomes so thin on the ground that they - or the skeleton staff who hol...
Monday, 13 June 2011
What's happened to saving the planet? And Smack and Chet, or, if you like, Chet and Smack (his funny valentine)
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What with Libya, the atrocities in Syria, the Milibands pledging each other eternal loyalty (for which read ‘I’ll get that bastard brother o...
Friday, 3 June 2011
One book and one film about the shooting of JFK. One is well-researched and fascinating, the other is a piece of cack. Sorry, Oliver.
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I have just finished reading The Kennedy Conspiracy by Anthony Summers, and boy it is some read. Halfway through reading it, I sent off for ...
Monday, 30 May 2011
Well, that’s all right then: Blatter reassures the world ‘it’s just a family tiff’
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good news from Zurich where Fifa’s owner (or is that king, I can never remember) has reassured the world that the world football organisatio...
Saturday, 21 May 2011
What’s cooking (Pt 2): a load of bollocks on TV served with hype and desperation. And thank you, Mr Dylan
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If you want to make cheap television, go down the ‘reality show’ route. If you want to make cheap television which has the spurious aura of ...
Monday, 16 May 2011
Sex-mad naked Frenchman chases chambermaid down hotel corridor! And British politician forgets his manners! A comparative analysis of the rationalist and empirical approach to scandal with especial emphasis on the tawdry and the dull
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In view of the latest scandal involving a French politician, or in this case, a would-be French politician, no one could claim that life is ...
Sunday, 15 May 2011
Wives, or a more personal take on this blog. Time to get in touch with my inner whinger
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Bit of slightly dramatic time here at home today (and only an Englishman could diminish drama in that way, but there you go, rather that tha...
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