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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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Sunday 9 September 2012
Day Three at Caunes-Minervois and not yet much to report, except that the wife of a former German president is trying to cope with rumours that she once earned her living doing tricks in a brothel
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Caunes-Minervois, Languedoc Day three of our two weeks here in the tourist-infested back of southern French beyond. I say tourist-infested,...
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Saturday 8 September 2012
We’re here, but with a couple of irritating hick-ups
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Caunes-Minervois, Languedoc, South of France. First news from the holiday front in Caunes-Minervois somewhere in the glorious French quarte...
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Sunday 2 September 2012
This, that and t’other (in no particular order)
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I’ve rather lost track of what’s going on, for several reasons. First, August is always a bit of a dead month, although this year Fleet St...
Friday 24 August 2012
South Wales Echo, Lincolnshire Chronicle, sex, life of Riley, expenses and spurious vocations and first-class bullshit - a short ramble down memory lane
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On June 24, I shall have served in Her Majesty’s Press for 40 years, assuming of course, that I don’t die earlier than I plan to or find mys...
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Sunday 19 August 2012
Assagne ‘hounding’: it’s all about ‘freedom of speech’? Pull the other one
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Here’s a suggestion: go onto Google and search for ‘Bradley Manning’. Make a note of how many pages are thrown up. Then do a search for ‘Jul...
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Thursday 16 August 2012
If I never hear of Julian Assange again will still be too soon, especially as young Bradley Manning is getting a far rougher deal. And Pussy Riot will get to know their fate today
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So that stupid little prick Julian Assange has managed to get himself in the headlines again. It’s a shame that Bradley Manning, the source ...
Monday 13 August 2012
Olympics: a grumpy old sod sounds off . . .
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Well, it’s all over bar the shouting, as they say, and I’m sure many more backs will be slapped this week as Britain congratulates itself on...
Saturday 4 August 2012
I do so hope that Draghi, Monti, Merkel, Samaras, Rajoy and the rest of that sorry bunch realise whose future they are dicking with: I take these things personally. And I’m a Scorpio. Then there’s a new kid on the block, one Alexander Bastrykin: hello, Alex, and what to you to for a living?
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I have a 13-year-old son and in many ways he seems to take after me. I was rather facetious as a lad, and so is he. Naturally, he is, to use...
Friday 3 August 2012
Greatest film ever made? Not quite. But Mr Vidal must surely come close to top of a list of wits
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The great and good of the film world have spoken and now we know: after a survey of 800 odd of those great and good, their bible Sight &...
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Wednesday 1 August 2012
Who's wearing the White Hats in Syria? (Or why the West’s attitudes towards the toppling of Assad and his regime remind me just a little too much of the Cisco Kid and Hopalong Cassidy). And just how soppy can a grown man get?
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When I was a kid and regularly watched the 30-minute Westerns which were screened every weekday for us young ones – Rin Tin Tin, Hopalong Ca...
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