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The House Of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
Tender Is The Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The English Press: A History – Jeremy Black
We Don’t Know Ourselves – Fintan O’Toole
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
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
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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Films
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The House Of Mirth
Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Saturday, 22 February 2025
Q: What is the difference between a clueless, cack-handed twat and Donald Trump? A: There isn't one
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Proving again that he has van Gogh’s ear for music, Donald Trump has once more shot himself in the foot: piss of the Democrats if you like, ...
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
America, your country is now a fucking mess so do something – we don’t want the rest of the world to be dragged into your lunacy!
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I have no idea whether you now reading this are from Asia, Europe, Africa, an Aussie or an American. And if you are American, I have not ide...
Sunday, 5 January 2025
Think 2024 was bad? Breaking news: 2025 could get a lot worse if Lady Luck doesn’t smile on the world. And from what I hear Lady Luck has taken the decade off
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There was a comment by someone or other in one of the Times Radio interviews (many of which are available on Youtube) which, for me, sums u...
Saturday, 28 December 2024
Well, well, well – a genius writes! Shame that it took until 2135 for the fucking world to catch on (by which time he was long dead)! And it’s not as though I didn’t do my fucking best to alert them! Fuckwits! What CAN you do!
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In the previous post I suggested that, broadly, those who insist they ‘write only for themselves’ are talking bollocks. However, despite my ...
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Face it, America, you have finally fucked yourself
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I am baffled. Although I am ‘merely’ a Brit and some might feel I am not at all qualified to criticise America, I’m going to do so anyway. B...
Thursday, 7 November 2024
This post is dedicated to reader John OC and the millions of other MAGA morons who have fallen for Donald J Trump’s bullshit
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Yesterday I posted a dire warning about what Donny Trump’s presidency will mean not just for America but, given the size of of the US econom...
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Thanks a bunch, America, you have now fucked up the world for the rest of us: are you guys even sane? Trump? This is not a party trick? Dear soul!
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Although I’m merely an interested Brit addressing Americans, PLEASE be assured that despite what some might think when reading the following...
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Friday, 1 November 2024
Might a new American civil war break out – irrespective of who wins on Novmeber 5, 2024? Guess who's the wild card? What the Orange Jesus himeself, Donald John Trump
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Over the years I have joked about my age, pretending to be over 90 or even over 100. Were someone else to do that, this cynic would suggest ...
Sunday, 27 October 2024
This ‘cradle-Catholic’ sounds off about dreary, dreary ‘good news’
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I’m sitting here in the kitchen at my aunt’s in deepest, darkest Gascony just about to have my second bowel of milky coffee, having risen fr...
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Shysters anonymous, or how in just over three decades the ‘information superhighway’, the ‘democratising force to end all ‘democratising force’ has succumbed to simply parting you from your money. Greed – as always – regains the throne
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I have been very lax about posting to this blog and intend to try to do so more regularly. There is much I want to comment on, not least the...
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