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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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Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Hemingway bollocks: the end if in sight
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I'm glad to report that I'm slowly getting to the end of the Hemingway bollocks . This last essay (last, I think and hope) is in som...
Saturday, 18 September 2021
A blog entry of songs I like (by others) is resurrected after I realised several had visited it but the songs could not be played, and now a few more songs, notably three versions of the same, great song (but not a version by the late Mr L Cohen of Quebec who co-wrote it)
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I happened to be looking through the stats for the ‘ere blog and which posts had been recently viewed and came across one, post on August 23...
Friday, 10 September 2021
Two more short stories if you are interested (and a word from my probation officer who otherwise so rarely gets a mention here . . . )
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Two more stories if you are interested, as usual ones submitted to Deadlines For Writers . You can read those stories here: Fathers And Sons...
Sunday, 5 September 2021
Here's a song you might like . . .
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Completed track this afternoon (which makes it sounds it’s been weeks in the making — it hasn’t, just an hour or two here and there over thr...
Monday, 16 August 2021
A few tracks for your discerning listening . . .
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I thought I might post these here, too. Not particularly tidy, but then I'm not looking for a rock career. 1 I Fucked It 2 Ain't It ...
Thursday, 12 August 2021
Bloody August! But then it all tails off into why I am not nostalgic about reporting on (and later subbing the results of) local flower festivals. It’s all yours
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More than 40 years ago the Irish novelist Edna O’Brien published August Is A Wicked Month. I haven’t read it, but I’ve always remembered its...
Monday, 9 August 2021
You’ve never read Proust? What never? Ever?
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The following is in response to a comment left on my previous post by a Michael P Bowles who asked me, in view of my views on Hemingway, wha...
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Thursday, 29 July 2021
For your info (as I have not much else to write about at the moment. Fuck covid)
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I recently joined the Hemingway Society as a means of getting access to the articles which are carried bi-annually in the Hemingway Review. ...
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Sunday, 25 July 2021
In which I touch upon a son’s disrespect for the 5th Commandment, the weather, the importance of ‘a glass of something’ and the Last Days, but please don’t be alarmed by the biblical references. (Biblical! Capital B! ED)
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Sitting outside our cottage in the garden just now on one of those rare days of warmth and sunshine we are granted by the good Lord here in ...
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Three more entries (well, one entry split into three as it was very long) on my interminable ‘Hemingway project’ if you are interested (though the resounding echo I hear when I write those words does not make me sanguine)
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If you are interested, here are three more entries for my Hemingway project blog. In fact, this particular essay, called The theology of eva...
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