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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, 29 December 2016
Join me on my journey (or another cliche if you can think of a better one)
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Just something to keep you going while I decide which of my wise thoughts I shall next share with you. . . And here is a second versio...
Thursday, 15 December 2016
Save the bloody hyena? You’ve got to be joking. Ah, the tiger - well, that’s completely different. Their young are so sweet, aren’t they? And this earth belongs to all of God’s creatures doesn’t it? (Well, the cute ones at least)
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One thing that has always bugged me pretty much since I can remember raised its head again a few weeks ago. As a child I was often told by m...
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Saturday, 3 December 2016
A brief glimpse into private correspondence - read it while you can because I shall delete it if asked to
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______, Upstairs brushing my teeth earlier on, it occurred to me that although I had replied to your email, I hadn’t, in fact, replied in ...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
They’re all bloody biting the dust (though me liking them has nothing to do with it, honest): RIP Leon Russell
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I was looking up something entirely different on YouTube and came across a posting of Leon Russell’s A Song For You, one of my favourite son...
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Friday, 18 November 2016
My brother and sister arrive and I am urged to calm down. Oh, and I clear up confusion about my alleged communist past, a past which, if anything, lasted no longer than it takes to tick a box
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In view of what you are about to read, I must immediately concede that these are my views and naturally one-sided, though how you can set ab...
Thursday, 10 November 2016
So Trump’s next for the White House: did the birds fall out of the sky where you live? No, not here, either. And as Leonard Cohen has finally played his last gig, I give you one of his - co-written - songs, though mercifully not his version, but one by Holly Figuera O’Reilly
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The dust has settled neither on the Brexit vote held almost five months ago, nor the US presidential vote last Tuesday which say Trump take ...
Friday, 4 November 2016
As the US sleepwalks to disaster (whoever wins next Tuesday) and Breakfast most certainly no longer means Breakfast, are you stupid or part of the liberal elite? Or possibly both? Or even neither?
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Perhaps the good folk living on Rimatara don’t yet know it or perhaps they do know but don’t care, but the good folk here in the Western hem...
Saturday, 15 October 2016
As the blog says, nothing much about very little. I was going to write about liberal/metropolitan elites, but somehow sidetracked myself. But I least by the by I have learned a new word
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When I moved to London in 1990, at first commuting weekly from Cardiff where I had been living and working, then eventually shifting all my ...
Saturday, 8 October 2016
Rush, rush, sodding rush - the bane of my life and I wish I could stop it!
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If there is one thing I would change about myself, for the better, it would be to get rid of my tendency to rush almost everything. And I ha...
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Friday, 30 September 2016
A few tunes to be getting on with as you all get on today with preparing to make your maker (it might seem a long way off, but believe me that bus is coming). And a photo or two, most by me.
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Your browser does not support this audio Don’t Lose Your Mind Your browser does not support this audio The main title music from Gle...
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