This film was released last year and is set in 2019. It was shot in Cromer on the North Norfolk coast and based in a world in which the UK is almost p...
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First things first. The author would insist this is not fiction. Others would agree and call it hogwash, but while the jacket blurb to this book by Na...
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You will see – as if you didn’t already know! – from the rudimentary map on the home page that Russia is an enormous country. It str...
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Christmas comes early to London’s West End. No sooner is Bonfire Night out of the way than the Christmas lights go on, first of all on Oxford St...
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It can be a funny thing, fashion. To take a couple of contemporary examples from the newspapers, it is trendy to wear baggy clothing but it is also li...
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This has been a difficult year for the film industry. The long-running strike which delayed or halted the making of many movies, and prevented star na...
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There is inflation and then there is Pret a Manger inflation. Between August 2020 – which was about five months into the covid pandemic – ...
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The 16th fiction book published by Sebastian Faulks landed in bookstores last month. When I say “fiction book”, that is not a unanimous vi...
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The Ryder Cup at the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club just outside Rome ended a couple of weeks ago. The event has left me with several memories, ...
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