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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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Wednesday, 18 January 2017
A self-indulgent moment. My excuse is that I dislike being called a liar. It's not that I don't lie - of course I do, we all do - but on this occasion I didn't
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My most recent post, a reproduction of an answer I gave on the Quora website, is to be followed by this one. Thinking about it, I am rather ...
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Monday, 16 January 2017
Quite a simple post: how some of the phrases we used came about (apparently - better add that bit)
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This blog is the successor to a diary I used to write, in long hand and in hard-backed A4 ledgers (I’ve still got them, about nine of them, ...
Friday, 13 January 2017
‘Waste not, want not’. Great motto. Great time-saver, the slacker’s delight
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A few years ago, looking for more info on something or other, I came across a website called Quora . It is quite useful. Ask a question, pos...
Thursday, 12 January 2017
‘You pays your money and you makes your choice’
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I think pretty much everyone reading this blog is familiar - not least because I have resorted to using it several times - with the old Chin...
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 ...
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