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2013: Books of the Year
ESCAPING INTO WORDS ...Some writers, and I have to admit I'm one of them, tend not to read as much as they should. We get scared that we'll absorb too many influences, perhaps find ourselves...
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THE CAPTAIN'S TIME HAS COME
http://www.grahamharrison.com/blog/01/2014/captain-cromie-love-and-death-in-revolutionary-petrograd/ In April this year my biography of Captain Francis Newton Allen Cromie, CB DSO RN (1882-1918) will...
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THE WAR TO END ALL WARS
BOLSHEVIKS IN THE BALTIC:The forgotten story of World War 1. So, here we go then, into what looks like 4 years of centenary commemoration for ‘the war to end all wars’. All the major TV historians will...
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OLD AGE SUCKS
An Embittered Meditation: Old AgeTime it was and what a time it was, it was A time of innocence, a time of confidences Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph Preserve your...
View ArticleRy Cooder - At The Dark End Of The Street - Live 1977
When we look back over the decades of thrills and inspiration music has provided, it can be difficult to pick out the true high points which stand the test of time and still caress our emotions. This...
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IMF Employs the Walrus of Love!
BEEN RIPPED OFF? HELP IS AT HAND!It must be very confusing for anyone working at the IMF (International Monetary Fund) because there are two women working there with very similar names. One is, of...
View ArticleThe Zombies - Odessey and Oracle Revisted 40th Anniversary Concert (FULL)
When you've been married for almost half a century, and if you both love music, then there's always going to be something from those early, exciting and utterly romantic days of your first meetings...
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Meditating on Old Age
When Were We Happy?In 8 days’ time, against what I considered to be ‘all the odds’, smoking, drinking and over-eating, I will reach the staggering age of 71. I will have outlived my poor mother by 13...
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AND THE WINNER IS ...
When one of your works has been submitted for consideration in a local Annual Book Awards contest, you do tend to harbour quiet hopes that you might even make it to the short list. Of course, with odds...
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WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW?
Another Book Emerges: Now What?I’ve been working on Empire of Thieves steadily for six months. This week, I completed it, and after a bit more pruning and editing I have to decide what to do with it....
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CABINET PUDDINGS
WHAT DO YOU MAKE?I often get sick and angry at those TV documentaries about great architecture when presenters like Dan Cruickshank and others stare breathlessly up at vaulted ceilings and tell us...
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GREEDY PIGS AROUND THE TROUGH
WILL YOU PAY £10 TO SEE YOUR GP?I came into the world weighing a hefty 9lbs one afternoon in April 1943. To facilitate this painful intrusion, my mother had to save up for several weeks to get the...
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LIVING WITH CONSPIRACY
CONSPIRACY THEORY They never went to the moon, you know.It was all mocked up in a studio.They paid the astronauts to stay schtumAnd filmed it in an aquarium.There are aliens in area 51Where experiments...
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Writing in No Man's Land
Footloose and Agent-free.Frank Sinatra once said “Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.” No doubt many of you reading this will have an agent. If so, treasure them, kneel at their...
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OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN ...
All Corduroys and Blow-waves The great script writers Galton & Simpson once provided a script entitled The Publicity Photographs for Hancock’s Half Hour. In that memorable episode, Hancock is...
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Happy Birthday, Sarah.
PAINFUL ANNIVERSARIESFOR SARAH: OCT. 2 1966 - DEC. 23 2013. I have often written on this blog about something which dogs us all like a lurking black wolfhound once we get past the age of 60. It goes...
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JUST ANOTHER FIRST WORLD WAR STORY?
Today I received, via e-mail, the cover design for the re-launch of my 2002 biography of Captain Francis Cromie CB DSO RN (1882-1918). Looking back to how inexperienced I was when I first came across...
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