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The House Of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
Tender Is The Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The English Press: A History – Jeremy Black
We Don’t Know Ourselves – Fintan O’Toole
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
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
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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Films
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The House Of Mirth
Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Saturday, 30 January 2021
Lockdown or no, it’s time to take a — guilt-free — day off
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For well over a year, I’ve been contributing to a website called Deadlines For Writers . I know I have mentioned it before, but as some read...
Monday, 18 January 2021
Constructing ‘Papa’ Hemingway: What will it be — ‘pure artist’ or ‘national celebrity’?
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This is the latest piece I have written for my blog about that old phoney Ernest Hemingway , looking at why folk think he was such a good wr...
Wednesday, 6 January 2021
The boy stood on the burning deck — did he really? Good Lord. Was he poet? A creative? Well!
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As some of you who return here every now and then might know, I’m ploughing on with my Hemingway project and still keeping my head above wa...
Monday, 4 January 2021
Urging you all to take a look and another few bits and bobs
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I’ve just posted the latest entry on my Hemingway project website. Getting there if you’re interested, though sadly few are: I keep an eye o...
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Friday, 25 December 2020
Bah humbug (or something). And if you aren't happy with that, let me instead wish your all a Merry Christmas and a trouble-free and happy New Year
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Before I get on to the main bit of this post, here’s an ad for those intent on Old Blighty ‘seizing its destiny’ — I think that was the phra...
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Sunday, 22 November 2020
Well, hello there. Yes, I’m still around. Getting worried?
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One reason why I haven’t been posting here of late is that us that I’m trying to complete this Hemingway project sooner rather than later. M...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Mainly for Anonymous (but others are just as welcome as long as you wipe your feet on the way in and keep your hands off the spoons)
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This is appearing on my ‘private’ blog, but I gather it isn’t quite as private as I thought. So what they hell. This entry is specifically f...
Sunday, 18 October 2020
More or less just a placeholder (but with benefits — a piccy of morons with lethal rifles and less sense than a broken brick)
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I promised myself I would try to post here more regularly, but that was an empty pledge, the alternative word for ‘promise’ in newspaper cir...
Sunday, 13 September 2020
To be honest, I’m too knackered to try to think up some clever-clever ‘isn’t he such a smart cookie’ title, so this will have to do. If you’re really interested, you can regard it as a ‘companion piece’ to my ‘entry’ on art a few weeks ago. If you’re not really interested, what the hell, just read this anyway
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I was getting one with this Hemingway bollocks when I decided, for one reason or another to post it here as my latest blog entry. (Note to f...
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