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The End Of The Street – Linda Melvern
Treacherous Estate – Michael Leapman
Clean Young Englishman – John Gale
Anyone Here Been Raped And Speaks English – Edward Behr
Nobody's Fool – Harlan Coben
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Down Cemetery Road – Mick Herron
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
Berlin Game — Len Deighton
Mrs Hemingway — Naomi Wood
Saturday — Ian McEwan
Decline And Fall — Evelyn Waugh
The Colour — Rose Tremain
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Films
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Jack Reacher (2012)
A Star Is Born (1937)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Nuremberg (2025)
The Way Of The Gun (2000)
Victim (1961)
The House Of Mirth (2000)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Gentlemen (2019)
A Time To Kill (1996)
The Irishman (2019)
The Revenant (2015)
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Thursday, 8 January 2026
Ah, Life! Where would we be without it! Certainly not in a world drowning in debt with a lunatic as president of the United States. Become a vegetarian, Donny, at least you'll lose some weight – ever seen a fat vegetarian?
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Two days ago I posted on this blog and kicked off by describing that, like it or not, there is just one certainty in this life, that sooner ...
Monday, 5 January 2026
Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble: AI stock, Dutch black tulips, cheap debt anyone? Roll up and buy, buy, buy and make some a fortune
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This post is already at 2,500 words and getting rather too long. So I shall call it Part I of a post which was intended to witter on about ...
Saturday, 25 October 2025
Half of America is worried – but really not worried enough
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A little earlier the following (see piccy) arrived in my Truth Social feed and I was moved to reply as follows: Look, I am wholly on your si...
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
‘A house divided’ – never a good thing. Bye, bye the united United States? If you value your unity, get rid of the orange cretin, a fraud, a fantasist, fat and old
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Recently I’ve been wanting to write again about one Donald J Trump, but each time I held back, for one simple reason: there’s nothing much n...
Sunday, 28 September 2025
Are Apple now really just a gang of hypocritical, greedy wankers without a new idea in their bones or is that just malicious hearsay? You decide. Me, I decided long ago – read on
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Here’s a notable development – remember ‘Apple, Think Different’? Apple at the forefront of innovation, in the avant garde of a brave new wo...
Saturday, 12 July 2025
In which, inadvertently, I create my very own mob
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Many years ago, I organised a disruptive political protest and learned something about an odd aspect of human behaviour. Perhaps I should tr...
Thursday, 3 July 2025
How Donny's 'big, beautiful bill' could help finance his very own 'secret police'. Paranoia? Let's hope so, but perhaps Ernst Röhm and his SA pals might have been a little more paranoid when they took off for a relaxing mid-summer weekend break in Bavaria 91 years ago . . .
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Here’s a scenario which might well be filed under ‘conspiracy theory’ by all sane and decent people, and probably should be, but is actually...
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