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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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Wednesday 23 September 2009
Feeling a tad guilty
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The sun has made its first appearance today, and I have spent the past hour chilling out on a sunbed next to the sea doing fuck all. And my ...
. . . remorselessly cheerful
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Must be getting old. Although I DO like optimism and find pessimist piss me off, I also get a little irritated by remorseless British cheerf...
Message to Kate
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Kate, less hope of a shag than you might think, and I must admit I am rather whistling in the wind. It was raining yesterday so texted, hope...
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Well, they said 'till Thursday'
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Wednesday, and a new day starts with an overcast sky, the promise of more rain and that remorseless cheerfulness and resignation which the B...
Monday 21 September 2009
Rain, rain, go to Spain - well, it did and is here to stay until Thursday
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Breezy, mild and slightly overcast yesterday with the possibility of rain. After carrying on with the very excellent A People´s History Of T...
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Sunday 20 September 2009
PS to the guff about my hotel in Ibiza
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On reflection (about three minutes worth) it strikes me that my readers, both of you, might conclude that I am being a little snobbish about...
A PS to an earlier entry
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The magazine republishing Michael Wharton´s autobiography, or at least the first volume, is not called Slightly Soiled but Slightly Foxed. ...
Ibiza - an early account
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It might only be my third day (and my second full day), but an overcast sky, no sun and a wind which promises a storm of some kind later to...
Monday 14 September 2009
PS Michael Wharton
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For the record, I knew Michael in the last 20-odd years of his life (he was a friend of my father's) and he was most definitely not a ra...
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Coming up: TWO weeks in Ibiza PLUS a piss-up and a funeral (and then another piss-up
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Well, it's almost here: my holiday. This Friday, after today's double shift, tomorrow's double shift and Wednesday's singl...
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