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The thrill of crime

Crime/thriller-writing is a genre with legions of fans – I like to dabble myself from time to time quite separately from my reviewing duties – and it’s pleasing to note that some of its most popular exponents and indeed fictional characters are women. Here are some relevant links [...]

March 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

This and that

Like many, though not as devotedly as Ivan Conway and Alan Tanner, I am following the Championship with interest particularly the race for the play-offs which is boiling up nicely. Last night Huddersfield in 3rd place played lowly Bristol City and Reading in 5th went to Sheffield Wednesday 6th. My [...]

March 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Daunts book festival/ Rogues Gallery and East West Street

Yesterday with Melanie Gay, Bob Tickler, Stefan Ursolini and Ken Howard I attended a book event at Daunts showcasing the above books both of which I enjoyed. Philip Mould, the fluent charming art dealer who appears in both the Antiques Road Show and Fake or Fortune, interviewed Philip Hook the [...]

March 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Television drama musings

Confession time: by habit I don’t watch much ‘meat and potatoes’ telly, but occasionally – usually by chance – I come across drama series that floats my boat. For example, a few years back I was recommended the (what is now called) the Scandi-Noir piece The Killing featuring detective [...]

March 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Golden Hill/Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford is a historian and broadcaster whose first effort at fiction wring is Golden Hill and it’s good. He has written a novel set in middle of the eighteenth century and in the style of Henry Fielding. It’s set in New York, not the heaving massive metropolis we know today but [...]

March 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

America after the Fall and Edward Hopper

American art and British too has frequently divided into a battle between figurative and abstract art in the twentieth century. On one hand you have the artists like Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns associated with modern expressionist abstract and in the other corner of the canvas Andrew Wyeth and [...]

March 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

SKY GOLF COMMENTATORS

Rust contributors like to work up a fair old head of steam on female sporting broadcasters, the view of some being that they are there not because of any indigenous talent but because they are women. To take a contrarian view I would like today to champion the cause of Henni Zuel, the youngest ever [...]

March 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Rogues Gallery/Philip Hook

Philip Hook was a director of Sotheby’s and has written an an engaging and informed account of art dealing over the last 500 years. It is both anecdotal and thematic. It is particularly interseting on the relationship between the art dealer and the collector but he also refers to the artist, [...]

March 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting it right

Having begun yesterday with the assumption that there must be as many different types of family relationship as there are families, yesterday I came to the conclusion that there are may actually be a finite number – and that, one day not too far away, I’m going to read a report in the Daily [...]

March 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

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