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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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Friday, 3 February 2017
When is censorship not censorship? Well, it would seem it’s when the saintly Guardian does the censoring. And want to pour the perfect glass of water? The Guardian tells you how
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The Guardian, often described as ‘a newspaper’ and ‘the conscience of the nation’ has many faces, not all of them admirable. I am a fan of i...
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...
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