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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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Saturday, 19 June 2021
A gentle night’s reading?
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I could bang on about what a dickhead ‘Boris’ Johnson is and who — without actually intending to — is selling Britain down the river, but th...
Sunday, 30 May 2021
Is there a God? Was Ernest Hemingway infallible? Do academics simply have too much bloody time on their hands? Is there any such species as an honest academic? William of Occam and I set about tackling these and other pressing issues
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Note to reader: This is LONG. Better go and have a wee before starting it. Whenever I want to think things through and get my thoughts str...
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Two more Hemingway posts for those keen and eager to see my literary career take off and reach stratospheric heights quite unknown to mankind. Can the Nobel Prize be that far off? If Hemingway can crack, pretty rest of us can, too.
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Two more Hemingway essays (if you are interested) Yes, I have been a busy little bee. The Sun Also Rises and the ‘lost generation’ — Part I ...
Thursday, 29 April 2021
Exciting news! Good Lord, I can’t quite tell you how exciting! Make sure you are sitting down when you read this post!
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Two more Hemingway entries, if you’re interested. Getting there I’m glad to say. Just another 2/3 ‘essays’ and 2 ‘potted biogs’ and I can st...
Thursday, 22 April 2021
In response to Deckard. (Who he? Oh, never mind)
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Someone (‘Deckard’) left a comment on this website on a previous post and this was going to be my response. However, it got a little long, s...
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Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Two more stories (if you’re interested)
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Today I posted two more stories in the Deadlines for Writers website, and you can read them if you are interested. One is called A Tense Rel...
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
What do Edward Gibbon, tomatoes and peanuts, paedophiles, Ernest Hemingway and bullshit have in common? Nothing. They just all feature in today’s 1,000 words (well, actually 1,499, but let’s not quibble, eh? It’s spring
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One thing which puzzles me a little about writing fiction is the widespread use of the ‘first-person narrator’. I say ‘puzzled’, but it real...
Tuesday, 6 April 2021
For once, an entry more personal than usual
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I had a horrific night from Sunday to Monday, acid reflux again, and I slept for about 40 minutes all night, in something like five-minute n...
Saturday, 27 March 2021
PS to the previous entry: three very enjoyable pieces of music (though, perhaps, not to everyone’s taste) by Stockhausen, Schoenberg and Webern
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In a previous post I spoke about ‘abstraction’ in music, painting and — possibly — writing. Just now, to make my point about how some of us,...
Monday, 15 March 2021
More piccies to delight small minds (and large ones if you have one)
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All these images are nothing put dicking around with Photoshop, manipulating snaps I took. I like them as I like a lot of abstract stuff, wh...
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