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• Bookbooks

  in Books: Lynn Truss’s “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” turned out to be an utterly delightful discovery. It... read more

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• Gods, Mongrels & Demons

  in Books: Angus Calder’s thesis, summarized on the dust jacket flap, is that the weird deserve centre-stage... read more

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• Just Awful

  in Books: Carrie Fisher’s The Best Awful is an elliptical work. That’s not a compliment. I mean... read more

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• Mind Games with Dennis Lehane

  in Books: With Mystic River Lehane catapulted himself to the top of the thriller psychological and mind-games... read more

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• Not So Curious

  in Books: Jay McInerney wrote a raveread more

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• Thank you John Frankenheimer: Path To War

  in Film: The peculiar thing about John Frankenheimer’s work is that it is... read more

• The Stuff Of Dreams

  in Film: A favourite ploy of film critics out to trash a movie is to attack those... read more

• Two Bad

  in Books: Perhaps I ought to have paid more attention to The Da Vinci Code. It was... read more

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• Web usability

  in Books: A great blog. The read more

• Wilde At Heart

  in Books: Holland is Oscar Wilde’s grandson and, with John Mortimer, in this astonishing book he shows... read more