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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, 11 February 2021
How do you get from ‘devil dogs’, the red tops and keeping in with Fleet Street news desks to EC president Ursula von der Leyen, her cock-ups, EU tardiness, Brexit and covid and the vaccines to a pointless, drunken spat I had with my sister? Er, I don’t know. So just read on. Once you’ve found out — if you find out — get in touch, ’cos I like to know myself
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PS I had, as my next post, intended to post loads of semi-inarticulate images and pose the question ‘When is art art and when is it just a l...
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...
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