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Tuesday, 24 July 2018
General Elektriks: back in Europe
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It was hot on Friday night. The temperature didn't drop much below 27 degrees, even once the sun had dipped behind the hotels overlookin...
Monday, 2 July 2018
Like looking through someone's holiday photos
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The purpose of Mark Twain's 19th century travel guide is " to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the Ea...
Monday, 14 May 2018
Being fine is not enough
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Eleanor Oliphant is odd. People don't understand her and she finds it difficult to make friends. We very quickly learn that she's h...
Sunday, 6 May 2018
Bally foolishness
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There were four of them --- George, and William Samuel Harris, and J., and Montmorency the dog. They were sitting in J.'s lodgings, com...
Monday, 23 April 2018
The injustice of man's justice
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" Do you believe in the way the country is organized? " asks Caroline Bury in It's a Battlefield . She's a woman who'...
Friday, 13 April 2018
Bunkum and claptrap
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I'd already made up my mind about Paolo Coelho's book by the end of the first chapter, well before we learn that " Veronika [-...
Friday, 6 April 2018
Strange noises and messages written on walls
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On the surface, The Haunting of Hill House is a straightforward ghost story, where four strangers meet in an isolated gothic mansion and e...
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