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Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories – Thomas Grant
Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories by Thomas Grant is a very funny book about the life and court cases of the QC Jeremy Hutchinson. There are lots of fascinating background details about the cases but also of the social climate at the time.
This is a wonderful, well-written book which is often laugh out loud funny. Highly recommended.
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Lucy Haque, artist
Prints by the artist Lucy Haque are now available from her web shop at lucyhaque.com
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Prefab Homes – Elisabeth Blanchet
Prefab Homes by Elisabeth Blanchet is a sixty page history of the prefabs built after the Second World War as a temporary solution to the housing shortage.
With many images, this is a nostalgic and useful little book, particularly for anyone who, like me, spent their childhood in a prefab.
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The Innocent – Ian McEwan
The joy of reading fiction is that you get transported to places and periods without leaving your chair, and whilst reading The Innocent by Ian McEwan I was living in 1950s Berlin.
This novel is a fascinating portrayal of post-war Berlin as well as a love story and a spy thriller. Two-thirds of the way through, a shocking episode is exhaustively described, and I began to lose my enthusiasm for the book. Eventually, however, it is wrapped up with a very satisfying and surprising ending.
Recommended (with reservations regarding the difficult episode).
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Freshening up
Another blog template change – the fourth!The template sequence has been Pilcrow, Blissful, Bold Life, and now the Able theme.
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Anomalisa
Anomalisa is a very weird animated stop-motion film. I’ve no idea what to make of it, but I’m glad my wife decided not to come with me!
With a 90 minute running time, it seemed longer. I guess the guy was struggling with life – was he having a mental breakdown? There’s a pretty explicit [animated] sex scene in it!So I turn to some reviews for help, but I’m not much the wiser. There’s apparently a clue in the name of the hotel (Fregoli). There’s a medical condition, the Fregoli Delusion, where someone believes different people in their lives are actually the same person in disguise – [see http://glennmillermd.com/the-fregoli-delusion/]. A curiosity of a film – technically brilliant, but puzzling.
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Please, Mister Postman – Alan Johnson
Please, Mister Postman is the second of Alan Johnson’s memoirs, and covers his time as a postman and union official.Like the first of his memoirs, This Boy, this is another charming slice of working class life, set between the late 1960s and the mid 1980s.
It’s another fine piece of writing from that rare thing, a genuinely nice politician. Highly recommended.
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Lymington to Keyhaven coastal walk
Many times we’ve walked along the coastal path between Lymington and Keyhaven. This time the weather was fine, but sadly the tide was out, so we saw mainly mud rather than water. Birds and twichers will always be found on the nature reserve which is next to this stretch of the coastal path.
This map [http://www.lymington.org/naturereserve2.html] shows the area.
At Keyhaven there is a pub, a car park and public toilets. There is also the wonderful ferry service to the glorious Hurst Castle, though not in the winter.
Lymington 2016
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The Power of the Dog – Thomas Savage
The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage is an interesting story of ranch life in the 1920s and of two brothers, the decent George and the homophobic and bullying Phil.The characters are well-developed, and the enfolding drama leads one to expect that inevitably something bad is going to happen.
There’s also an interesting and helpful afterword by Annie Proulx.
Recommended.
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