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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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Tuesday, 15 February 2022
What’s going on in Russia? Buggered if I know
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I am writing this on the morning of Tuesday, February 15, the day before the mooted invasion of Ukraine by Russia. I say ‘mooted’ because th...
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
So, not a complete waste of time
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What have I been doing? Well, I have been busy, though not with what I felt I should have been doing. Tomorrow is the January deadline day f...
Sunday, 9 January 2022
Abstract this, abstract that — is there anything which can’t be abstract? Let’s have a look see
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Here’s a question: we talk of ‘abstract art’ and atonal music (which for the sake of argument might for the purpose of this blog engry be sp...
Thursday, 6 January 2022
To many all that’s left seems to be a right turn, especially in the good ole’ US of A. Concerned? Yes, we should be, even those who do not live there
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The original title of this post is/was ‘To many all that’s left seems to be a right turn’ and it was written, unusually, in fact uniquely, b...
Thursday, 30 December 2021
Three more long entries for my Hemingway bollocks to keep you from killing each other . . .
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Here you go, another three entries for you to ignore, but please, do so gently. These entries consist of just over 12,000 words in total and...
Saturday, 18 December 2021
Roll up, roll up and stroke my ego even more! Oh and Quark Xpress and Indesign aren’t the only players in town
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Roll up, roll up and stroke me ego even more! Oh and Quark Xpress and Indesign aren’t the only players in towns Busy little bee that I am, ...
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Volume three of a fab, fab, fab collection of my stories now available in print — good Lord and just in time for Christmas! Apparently, the Queen has already ordered 50 copies to be distributed as festive gifts at Buck House, London. Oh, and beware shysters — there’s a lot of them about and apparently double-vaccines, boosters, voodoo cockerels and mouthing MAGA bullshit is not protection at all against them. You were warned
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Just published — on Amazon KDP, so sadly no bona fide commercial publisher involved yet (and a very wistful ‘yet’ at that) — my third collec...
Saturday, 20 November 2021
More stories and poems (if you are interested)
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More poems (bottom two rows are the latest) here and more stories (the bottom two rows).
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Is it just an old codger resorting to type, or are things perhaps getting a little hairy? I hope it’s the former. I fear it might be the latter. But never mind, at least the free West is getting its beauty sleep
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It’s almost a commonplace that was we grow older and are usually less adaptable to change, we become more reactionary. Perhaps. There is som...
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Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Talk of bloody long hauls! But now got this more or less last part done. Might even qualify for some kind of compensation. Keep your fingers crossed
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I’ve finally finished a pretty long entry for the Hemingway bollocks which I hope will be the last such long piece. Still to come are a coup...
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