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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, 28 May 2022
Give this song a spin
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I’ve been working on recording and refining this for the past few days. It doesn’t have a vocal track as I am still not very confident in my...
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Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Three more pages if you are interested (which apparently no one is, sob, sob)
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• 1940-1945 — Part I: Writing gives way to the ‘war effort’, but the fame grows though another marriage begins to fail • 1940-1945 — Part II...
Saturday, 21 May 2022
Patrick Powell's cake moment (er, he's not French but half Kraut, half English)
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As usual down her in sunny Cornwall when it is not pissing with rain or the chilly side of ‘mild’, I sit outside in the garden with a glass ...
Saturday, 14 May 2022
With all my love, Cassandra. See you in the next world
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I once came across a comparison (in the Economist, though that is not important) which might at first blush seem obvious, but the essence of...
Monday, 9 May 2022
First post in ages, but a trip to France makes its presence felt
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Langon, SW France, May 9. I haven’t posted here for some time, and I am conscious of it. There’s no reason at all, except that I have nothin...
Thursday, 7 April 2022
How to waste time completely, utterly and successfully . . .
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Lord can we waste time when we shouldn’t be. For the past few weeks I’ve got to a simple place in on of the accounts of Hemingway’s life, bu...
Friday, 18 March 2022
Introducing the little-known writer Eugene Mahlzeit and wasting my time as usual and feeling a tad guilty but not too much. And anyway at least I am productive, if not in a very useful way
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Here’s a thing: I am concentrating on finishing my ‘Hemingway bollocks’ and I am getting there. One advantage is, of course, that not only d...
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Sunday, 13 March 2022
‘Ah’ (I think) I said, ‘Putin won’t invade. He’s not THAT stupid’. Guess what? As for that nice Mr Xi, what is he to make of the antics of his new best friend?
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Well, I got it wrong. I think — I really can’t be arsed to read through my last blog entry, but I’m pretty sure I remember correctly — that ...
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...
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