Sunday, 15 January 2023

In The Heat Of The Night - John Ball

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  IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT - JOHN BALL The book upon which the film starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger was based of course, and it'...
Monday, 2 January 2023

A Book Of Days - Patti Smith

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  A BOOK OF DAYS - PATTI SMITH I must admit, I was quite a latecomer to social media. I'd had a micro-presence on the Internet for years...
Tuesday, 27 December 2022

Nadja - Andre Breton

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  NADJA - ANDRE BRETON Andre Breton, founder of the Surrealist movement and he of the famous credo ' Beauty will be convulsive or will n...
Monday, 12 December 2022

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

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  EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE - JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Nobody talks of 9/11 these days. It's never mentioned. Not that it should...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

French Revolution 1968 - Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville

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  FRENCH REVOLUTION 1968 - PATRICK SEALE & MAUREEN McCONVILLE If this was France everything would be on fire. And there's the nub of...
Wednesday, 23 November 2022

The Forest of Dean Miners' Riot of 1831 - Chris Fisher

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  THE FOREST OF DEAN MINERS' RIOT OF 1831  - CHRIS FISHER No historian I and no academic either. Me? I left school at age 16 and never w...
Thursday, 10 November 2022

Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland

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  HEY NOSTRADAMUS! - DOUGLAS COUPLAND I saw Douglas Coupland years ago at a book launch and found him reassuringly weird, like a cross betwe...