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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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Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Sunday, 28 July 2013
‘Arab Spring’ still working its tortuous way to disaster. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets any better (he said hopefully). And RIP JJ Cale
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The usual story: Sunday shift finished, I am sitting in a pub supping my pint of cider and drawing on a cigar (which, I must swiftly add, I ...
Sunday, 21 July 2013
Orchard Dene and Lower Assendon revisited – I go on an unexpected and unplanned sentimental journey
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Lower Assendon will mean very little to almost everyone reading this blog, unless you live in Henley-on-Thames or nearby – Watlingon, Bix, F...
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Friday, 19 July 2013
Come on, Kate, do me a real favour and get a move on!
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Just a quick word before the day is out: please, please, please God make that bloody royal baby (who is to be called ‘Kevin’, I understand, ...
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
More concerts in France, and I open my big mouth to diss - slightly - the World’s Greatest Novelist
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I’ve been here in Illats, south of Bordeaux, for a week and it is hot. Yes, I know it is also hot in Old Blighty, but it is a little hotter ...
Sunday, 7 July 2013
And then there was me: I decided to bite the bullet and throw off the veil
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It’s a strange thing writing a blog such as this. Over the years – I’ve been writing it since late 2009 – it has been a bit of this, a bit o...
Saturday, 6 July 2013
Arab spring? Apparently, if we all make a great, co-ordinated effort and all fart in unison, we can bring peace, tranquillity, freedom and democracy to the Middle East
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A few years ago I heard this description of a standard journalistic technique: ‘Simplify, then exaggerate’. That is largely what we do all t...
Thursday, 4 July 2013
When black is, in fact, white. Or when a military coup is not a military coup because the urban liberal elite say so.
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Now here’s a pretty dilemma to keep all those who think themselves on the side of the angels happy: a military coup has taken place in Egypt...
Friday, 28 June 2013
Why the widow in Helmand is no different to the widow in Kettering
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When you try to find out how many people have been killed in Afghanistan since the Coalition started its operations there after the attack o...
Sunday, 23 June 2013
(Not for the first time) I earwig. And very little joy with the Prince track, thanks to Warner's no bloody piracy policy. Well! Then there’s more middlebrow ‘original British drama to whinge about and I have a good word to say about Richard, Duke of York, better known as Richard III
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I am currently sitting in a pub after work and eavesdropping on another conversation and I can’t say it makes fascinating listening. What it...
Saturday, 22 June 2013
Finally: I give you Prince and one of his songs which (for me) stands above the rest (and perhaps it's not quite what you might expect)
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There was are recent entry here in which I trailed Prince, but so far never got around to writing it. So here it is. Prince was once one of...
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