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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, 4 August 2022
If by some chance you are bored . . .
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Another five pages of this Hemingway crap posted if you are interested, five parts covering the final 16 years of his life. Almost 20,000 wo...
Saturday, 18 June 2022
Got work to do . . . Plus yet another plug (you guys really are slow on the uptake. Bet most of you are foreign)
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One reason I want to get this Hemingway project completed, done and dusted — and actually ‘completing’ it was one of the main reasons for st...
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Sunday, 12 June 2022
‘Passionate about literature’ and ‘you want to investigate the human condition’? Well, sod off — you’re barred from this blog. There are no rules and don’t fall for anyone’s schtick that there are
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This entry is, in fact, just a trial run of something I want to include in my ‘ Hemingway bollocks ’ because I find I am able to clarify my ...
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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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