Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Deepwater Horizon, Me Before You and The Girl on the Train

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I just wish the first half hour had been clearer about the BP organisation, who was who and who reported to who. It seemed strange that M...
Monday, 3 October 2016

The Improbability of Love, Number 11 and My Lovers's Lover

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I loved the first three quarters of this book. Hannah Rothschild's first novel The Improbability of Love is a delight. I found the in...
Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Hell or High Water, The Infiltrator and The Girl with all the Gifts

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Taylor Sheridan should win the Oscar for best original screenplay for Hell or High Water, a wonderful heist movie set in the dazzling bac...

Tring Book Club - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

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An extraordinary book, if a little depressing. A number of interlocking stories held together by Olive herself, a retired schoolteacher. ...
Thursday, 22 September 2016

The Other Place Tour and The Two Noble Kinsmen at the RSC

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THE OTHER PLACE TOUR A day in Stratford-upon-Avon started at 11 am with a tour of the newly opened The Other Place. It incorporates thr...
Friday, 16 September 2016

Eight Days a Week- The Touring Years

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I was amazed at how many people showed up for the nationwide screening of a Beatles documentary. I was the last to arrive, an hour after ...
Monday, 12 September 2016

The Town in Bloom, Slade House and The Past

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After having loved Dodie Smith's "I Capture the Castle", I wondered if this later novel could be as good. I needn't hav...