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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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Monday, 21 November 2022
Dreams (and dreaming, one of my favourite pastimes)
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Several years ago, in December 2017 I think, my brother and I joined my sister and German brother-in-law and about 90 other Germans – well, ...
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Thursday, 6 October 2022
As I was saying (or not at the case might be*)
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First things first: that asterisk above (*). You might think the phrase is ‘as the case may be’ but from what I know of English - and I don’...
Monday, 26 September 2022
Done and sodding dusted: goodbye Hemingway! Well, up to a point
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I am very pleased to say — very pleased! — that the web version of my sodding Hemingway bollocks is now completed. I have just posted the fi...
Friday, 16 September 2022
New book review, Hemingway's rather silly novel To Have And Have Not. Bet you don't know whether I like it or not. Guess.
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Here it is.
Saturday, 10 September 2022
New book review, Mary Dearborn's biog of Hemingway
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You can find it here .
Friday, 9 September 2022
The queen of England is dead, but then rather a lot of other people also died yesterday
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A date to remember: September 9, 2022, the day a 96-year-old woman died in Britain. It was not unexpected given her age. She was Mrs Sarah C...
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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