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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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Friday 12 March 2010
Fucking newspapers, fucking execs and a few more choice observations. If you are of a sensitive dispostion, do the honourable thing and fuck off.
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I’m in a bad mood, my wife and the two little kiddiwinks have buggered off somewhere (Elsie has football training, I think), it’s 7.15 at ni...
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Thursday 4 March 2010
Frederic Raphael insufferable and vain beyond reason: rather like his glittering characters
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I drove home from work a day later than usual because I stopped off at Ken’s to see how he was and to give him a little company, and stayed ...
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Philosophy - Pt I. What's it all about, then? With references to Sartre, Hume, Bishop Berkeley, Bertrand Russell and a certain London cabbie.
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I notice someone else has visited my blog after finding it by googling ‘philosophy’, and they, too, I should imagine, will have trudged off ...
Saturday 27 February 2010
Where are they now? A meditation on how pointless being famous is. With references to Fred Kite and Joe Stalin
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When I read about or hear talk of Martin Amis, I am always reminded of Hugh Walpole. Who he? you might ask. Exactly. Who he? But that is the...
Thursday 25 February 2010
A quick note - and something of an apology - to those who arrive here after using the search term 'philosophy'. (But don't despair)
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A year or so ago, I signed up with some website which ‘monitors the traffic to your blog’. The point of the website, I think, is to get you ...
Friday 19 February 2010
My kind of blog: a drawback. Followed by a short joke to show just how cheerful we Brits are in adversity. Cue cheerful whistling.
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There are blogs by BBC journalists, blogs by whacky wannabe backwoodsmen, highly artificial blogs by companies who just want to sell you fin...
Monday 15 February 2010
The end of empires (and even the United States - utterly inconceivable only to those poor souls who don't listen to Radio Four)
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There is a very good, not to say quite fascinating, series running on Radio Four at the moment called A History Of The World In 100 Objects....
Saturday 13 February 2010
Joke of the day, an occasional series - 3
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At the risk of sounding tactless, if not out and out callous, the old chap who was apparently at death’s door a week or two ago has rallied....
Saturday 6 February 2010
Joke of the day, an occasional series - 2
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I had intended publishing my next blog entry along the lines of the imminent death of an elderly friend, how sad I was blah, blah, blah and ...
Monday 1 February 2010
Joke of the day, an occasional series - 1
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David and Maurice were two Jewish friends who had known grown up together, worked together and known each other all their lives. Now that th...
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