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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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Monday 10 December 2018
Hemingway: a writer of genius or a 24-carat twat who had the luck of Old Nick? Well, I suspect you already know what I think
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For the past few months I have been writing a critique of Ernest Hemingway’s debut novel and, at the time, runaway bestseller The Sun Also R...
Wednesday 21 November 2018
I pay the price of being remarkably stupid (but get away with it)
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Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske, Truro I can’t quite work out why, but I have been fighting very shy of writing this particular blog ent...
Saturday 10 November 2018
Just a few songs to be getting on with, two of them new to me. Shalom/salaam ‘alaykum
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I’m sure the rest of the world realised long ago that you can now post YouTubes videos directly onto a Blogger blog, but I’m rather slow on ...
Thursday 25 October 2018
I call on all philistines to come and join me (it’s getting a little lonely in my neck of the woods). We can discuss ‘meaning’ and ‘creativity’ and even try to establish what exactly is the point of Gilbert & George’s work, shit and all
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Heinitzpolder - Dollard, Germany My sister, who lived in the Philippines for several years, a country which has a large ethnic Chinese com...
Tuesday 23 October 2018
Just a few pics . . .
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Heinitzpolder - Dollard, Germany I’m in North-West Germany for two weeks, arriving last Tuesday, visiting my sister who lives in the back ...
Wednesday 10 October 2018
What will be in Santa’s Brexit sack next March? Well, I’m buggered if I know
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Remember what it was like looking forward to Christmas when you were young? Remember the excitement, anticipation and wondering what Santa -...
Friday 21 September 2018
In which I learn that blog entries like lemonade can also go flat. Still. . .
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Three Queens Hotel, Burton-on-Trent – Sunday, September 16. NB This post was begun five days ago, an irony given what I write. Oh, well, y...
Friday 14 September 2018
I feel the itch, so let me scratch a little more (though whether you are in the slightest bit interested is neither here nor there. You are probably far more concerned with your own sodding itch)
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That bloody itch to write, often nothing more than the obsession of a barroom bore to hear the sound of his own voice. And sadly I suffer fr...
Monday 10 September 2018
History isn’t bunk, Mr Ford, and I wish I knew far more of it
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What with one thing and another - leaving Britain in June 1959 when I was nine to go and live in Berlin (after my father was posted there by...
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