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AN INSPIRING MASTERPIECE
THE GREATEST BOOK IN THE WORLD?Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab in the 1956 John Huston production of Moby Dick; a fine version of the tale with a script by Ray Bradbury, and the more recent attempt...
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DOWN AT THE CROSSROADS
WENT DOWN TO THE CROSSROADS‘Got down on my knees’, or so the song goes. Anyone drawn into the rich musical heritage of the Blues, either as a mere fan and listener or as a musician, will inevitably...
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A FORTUITOUS MEETING
RIDING PIGGY-BACKMost writers will tell you that they are not so much interested in the notion of ‘fame’ as they are in simply getting published. Frankly, I think that’s baloney. We all watch the...
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AUTHORS vs PUBLISHERS
I'm one of the lucky ones right now. My new book comes out with Constable & Robinson on January 13th and in the meantime I'm hoping against all the odds that I can come up with a new proposal for a...
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PEOPLE GET READY
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN?Don’t bother worrying about how many shopping days there are to Christmas. If the much-publicised Mayan Calendar is correct, then as I write this I have only 17 days left to live...
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So Sorry, Sarah
No more Christmas. Goodbye Auld Lang Syne.It is difficult to write when your heart is broken. Yet even typing these words for someone else out there to read is an example of the writer’s greatest...
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CRIME and no Punishment
WELCOME TO UK PLC … managed byROBBERS, THIEVES & PIRATESAnd all immune from prosecutionOh, dear, oh dear, oh dear. The panic of the retail sector every damned Yuletide… “Figures are down on last...
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SELF PUBLISHING: PATHETIC LITERARY SUICIDEOne of the greatest mistakes a writer can make, and especially when writing non-fiction, is to assume that the public are interested in whatever fascinates...
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SPIELBERG'S MISSING MOVIE
WARHORSE, SCHINDLER, BAND OF BROTHERS …Here’s one you might have missed, Steven.I read today with great interest that Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, after making the excellent Band of Brothers series...
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Family: A Blast from The Past
FAMILY RE-UNITED AFTER 40 YEARS, SHEPHERD'S BUSH 02 EMPIRE FEB. 1ST 2013They should’ve Been GIANTS!February 1st -2nd was a break from all the trials our family are still wading through. Memory-wise, it...
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IT'S ... SHOWTIME!
STATES OF INDEPENDENCE IS IN THE CLEPHAN BUILDING, DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY ALL DAY, SATURDAY MARCH 16 2013. IF YOU WANT TO SEE ME, TALKING UPMY MAMMOTH BOOK OF UNEXPLAINED PHEOMENAIN A BRAVE, COMPRESSED...
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REMEMBER: WRINKLIES STILL ROCK
ONE NIGHT AT THE NORBRECK HOTELBefore our daughter sadly died on December 23rd 2012, due to the fact that her cancer was terminal, her trade union, Unison, which she had been a member of for many years...
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FAME, SMILING, FLUTTERS QUIETLY BY
Apparently, if you click on the above j-peg twice, it comes up in a separate window, then click on it again and it becomes legible. WRITING: SOMETIMES YOU LOSE, SOMETIMES YOU WIN. Well, anyone...
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P.F.I.: PROFIT FROM ILLNESS
Get off your Knees and Fight!Any old British leftie worth his salt knows about the Father of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan. Unlike today’s ‘Lite/Fat Free’ Diet Coke politicians, he was a man who wanted to...
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THEY THINK IT'S ALL OVER ....
Lest we forget: A Rich Fascist and a Forgotten Heroine:A comparison in Perceived Morality"Fascism, Adolf? At the end of the day, it's a game of two halves ... the servile and the dead …we're just...
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GONE: BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Compassion for the Dead: Sometimes it’s hard to find. After a frantic day, a day we’ve contemplated with unabashed relish for the past decade, it’s difficult to marshal my thoughts about the departure...
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Old Age, New Age
Before We Fly AwayThe days of our years are threescore years and ten;and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,yet is their strength labour and sorrow;for it is soon cut off, and we fly...
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The Facts, Ma'am - Just the Facts ....
STUFFING IT TO THE PROPAGANDA MERCHANTS The great thing about the on-line community, where you can exchange rants and gripes with friends who are as politically frustrated and angered as yourself is...
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JAZZ SOUS LES POMMIERS
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast…. Like many people, I always thought that this was a quote from Shakespeare, but it isn’t - it’s William Congreve (1670-1729). Anyway, our savage breasts...
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WHITE LIGHTNIN'!
THANKS FOR IT ALL, GEORGE … From Rock and Roll to Country isn’t a giant step, but sometimes the connections surprise you. Jiles Perry, J. P. Richardson, Jr. (1930 –1959) a.k.a. The Big Bopper, was a...
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