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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 6 February 2013
History is made as British Prime Minister gets Pope's go-ahead to marry his guinea pig. And Queen sensationally found hiding in Leicester car park
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Well, the cat’s is out of the bag: David Cameron has pulled it off. He has persuaded the House of Commons to allow a man to marry another ma...
Saturday 2 February 2013
Song for you: a comparative analysis of different versions, with reference to what is crap, anodyne and pointless (Whitney Houston, The Carpenters and Michael Buble) and two - Donny Hathaway and Herbie Hancock/Christine Aguilera - which at least do the song justice. Oh, and Russell's original (which I like best of all). And then just a little bit about gay marriage, to keep you buggers on your toes (bad joke not intended)
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NB (24/05/21) I’ve just looked up this entry because I want to send a link to it to someone who has been in touch (hi, Miz Walky Talky), and...
Friday 25 January 2013
How to lose money quite quickly: an easy-to-follow guide involving cheap Chinese tablets, Hong Kong-based crooks, Chinistore and Paypal
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Those loyal readers visiting this blog whose sole thought every morning is to log in and see what else has been happening in my life might b...
Sunday 13 January 2013
Exactly how bad is Quentin Tarantino? Well, pretty bad - in fact, even worse than that, but as long as he rakes in the dollars, Hollywood ain't going to tell him: kill the golden goose? Come one. And don’t accept Tarantino’s version of slavery. Try Howard Zinn’s account instead
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Every industry and art form needs its new blood, whether it is a fresh way of cooking the books in accountancy, dreaming up new scams in ban...
Monday 31 December 2012
Salmond and Farage: unlikely kissing cousins but they have a lot in common
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A question, although only those of you in the UK should bother trying to answer. Those of you dipping into this ’ere blog who live abroad ar...
Wednesday 26 December 2012
The Deadwood stage stops here: why after David’s Milch’s Deadwood we should never put up with anything but the very best. (Oh, and hats off to casting directors the world over)
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Let me start on a very obscure note. Some people, surely a small minority, stay behind a little when a film has finished and the credits rol...
Tuesday 25 December 2012
What would Christmas be without a heartfelt plea? So here's mine: think of those who aren't as lucky as yourselves
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Let me be frank: I like Christmas, though I must add that without children (which, for me is any young person up to and including the age of...
Friday 14 December 2012
A gadget queen writes: Not so smart with phones and as a capitalist something of a bloody loser
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Not posted here for a week or three, but encouraged by a glass or five of brandy and lovage on ice (my new drink, beats the shit out of scru...
Saturday 24 November 2012
A father writes (though not this one), and parents the world over might understand
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It is by no means the world-stopping story of the month and most certainly few people living outside Britain will have heard about it and ev...
Saturday 10 November 2012
Let’s hear it for the Fourth Estate or why Kim, Kourtney, Jen, Em and Jess are keeping democracy alive. Then there’s the rekindling of a love affair: me and Don
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Here are some spiffing items of news you might well have missed over these past few days. But be reassured that throughout the Western world...
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