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Winding Up the Week #376

An end of week recap “I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.” – E.M. Forster This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s…

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Mayflies – Andrew O’Hagan. Manchester, music, and male friendship that lasts forever! A book review

Mayflies – Andrew O’Hagan. Manchester, music, and male friendship that lasts forever! A book review

Mayflies is a rather touching tale about the wonder of male friendship.  Not perfect, but not rubbish by any means.  If you are after a bit of 1980s Manchester and indie music nostalgia, then the first part of this book is for you.  The problem is though that the much darker second half is not as strong as the first. The debate about assisted dying is one worthy of exploration. However, I was…

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'Mayflies' by Andrew O'Hagan - Six Guys from Glasgow

‘Mayflies’ by Andrew O’Hagan – Six Guys from Glasgow

  ‘Mayflies’ by Andrew O’Hagan    (2020) – 277 pages   ‘Mayflies’ juxtaposes two stories from a Glasgow man’s life, one from 1984 and the other from 2017. In 1984 a group of six young Glasgow men barely out of high school head to Manchester, England for a music festival with some of the indie bands that were big at the time: The Smiths, the Fall, New Order, etc. The six guys are: Tully, Tibbs,…

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La vita segreta, tre storie vere dell'era digitale di Andrew O'Hagan

La vita segreta, tre storie vere dell’era digitale di Andrew O’Hagan

E arriviamo così a La vita segreta, tre storie vere dell’era digitale, di Andrew O’Hagan – romanziere scozzese autore di quattro romanzi prevalentemente incentrati sulla situazione attuale della sua patria – , editore Adelphi. Le tre storie raccontate riguardano Julian Assange, individuo che non ho ancora stabilito se mettere nei buoni, nei così-così o nei bastardi, il dark web, ovvero il lato…

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Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan

Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan

“What we had that day was our story. We didn’t have the other bit, the future, and we had no way of knowing what that would be like. Perhaps it would change our memory of al of this, or perhaps it would draw from it, nobody knew. But I’m sure I felt the story of that hall and how we reached it would never vanish.”

Mayfliesis novel about the friendship between two Glaswegian men. The first half…

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Letters Live at the Freemason's Hall - Friday 3rd April 2015

In December 2013, I was incredibly frustrated to learn I had missed an event featuring two of my favourite actors (Benedict Cumberbatch & Gillian Anderson). That event was the first Letters Live at the Tabernacle in London. However, due to their high profiles, it meant that the event was then on my radar for any future shows, the first of which arrived on World Book Day 2014 at the Southbank…

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The Illuminations: Beautiful doesn't always mean you like it.

I’ve recently started a book club. It’s given me an occasion to talk to my mum, J., about the book club she’s been a part of for the past 30+ years (how long?). She was giving me advice (solicited, this time) on how her book club operates. They each rate the book, but with the rule (enforced?) that the rating cannot take into account the balance of “well, I found the book beautiful, *but* it just…

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Midweek Miscellany

I was locked a conference room last week looking at books coming out in the fall, so tI have a lot of catching up to do…

At the Financial Times, Andrew O’Hagan on the influence of other art forms on writers:

Writing novels is quiet work: it can reveal…

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