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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 13 May 2016
In which I go social, twice, although on a small scale and also reach out the hand of friendship to my Russian readers (whoever they are)
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Two social occasions to write about, both small-scale, but both very enjoyable and crucially not a mention of the EU, my cars, phones, Macbo...
Saturday 7 May 2016
Relax and stand down: I’ve completely forgotten what I was going to rant about. But there are still histamines and just how loose use of the word ‘genius’ has become. So still room enough to waffle
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Well, there you have it, a perfect example of Sod’s Law: I post a blog entry warning that the subsequent entry I shall be sounding off and h...
Thursday 5 May 2016
I give you due warning that in the next few entries I shall be sounding off. So don’t complain: you have been warned
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This is is a short posting only because it is one by way of introduction and also so that I can remind myself of one or two things. Every ...
Friday 29 April 2016
No more EU for now (except, of course, to mention ‘no more EU for now’), but the eternal, infrenal itching now has a name - great! - and I plan my next invasion of Europe. Sorry, wan’t going to mention Europe, was I?
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I have to say that for some odd reason I have held off posting here for several weeks because my main urge was simply to repeat how insuffer...
Friday 8 April 2016
You want humility? Here’s real humility (well, sort of) and the sad tale of how I came to realised I am not the world’s greatest stock picker
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Every so often I take a look at ‘the stats’ to see which of my previous posts have been read. There are a few evergreen favourites - the tra...
Monday 4 April 2016
Panama papers leaked: the Guardian fingers Putin (though why just him?). Then there’s another few nights at the St Endellion festival and I wonder why I can’t simply settle for being middle-class. But sadly I can’t
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I must immediately be honest about this entry and state that it has less to do with what I am writing and posting a blog entry and a little ...
Friday 25 March 2016
Like a bore at a party ‘Brexit’ is the bane of our lives. Roll on June 23 after which we will know whether it’ll be terminal cancer or a debilitating stroke
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It’s fair to say we’ve all met a boring person or, indeed, several. I always recall one in particular, a reporter on the Birmingham Evening ...
Friday 18 March 2016
Cars, especially first cars, and chips off the old block: I hope my daughter isn’t as stupid as me
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About six or seven years in this blog when it was still a thing of fresh, juvenile enthusiasm and I hadn’t resorted to writing potted resumé...
Tuesday 15 March 2016
Will the last hack to leave the industry please put out the lights? And Germany’s AfD might be making strides, but I shouldn’t fear the jackboot quite yet
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I watched Spotlight the other night and liked it. So did the Oscars committee and awarded it Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. It i...
Thursday 10 March 2016
Ignore this, if you like, just having a general whinge about this sodding itching which has beset me for these past five months
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I’ve got to say very little has been on my mind except looking forward to the day when this perpetual torso itching goes away. Writing it he...
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