Tag: book-reviews

In the Early Morning Rain.

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The master has a new book out. It’s only another horseracing novel, but it is, in the style of his last, short (though this one, at 40,000 words is perhaps closer to a short novel than it is a novella). Like the last one too, it is a literary novel that happens to concern horseracing, … Continue reading In the Early Morning Rain.

17th Oct – we’ll catch a runt and put him in a punt, and then we’ll let him go.

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We cannot deny that we have now arrived at that ugly saturation point of fame, so presciently identified by Andy Warhol, and, agonising as it is to be presented with ceaseless hours of – is the term Z-list celebrity any longer valid? Aren’t they all now so devalued by their ubiquity that they are (we … Continue reading 17th Oct – we’ll catch a runt and put him in a punt, and then we’ll let him go.