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I’ve just read ‘Tough Guys Don’t Dance’ by Norman Mailer and ‘Super-Cannes’...

Norman Mailer 18/02/2003 I’ve just read ‘Tough Guys Don’t Dance’ by Norman Mailer and ‘Super-Cannes’ by J G Ballard. I’m now back with Mailer: Norman Mailer’s ‘Harlot’s Ghost’ Author’s Note ‘Some good...

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100 Novels – personally recommended

100 Books (mostly FICTION) The non-fiction choice, Book 101, is ‘The magnificent Mrs Tennant by David Waller’. Having kept a diary since my early teens in which I recorded what I was reading (including...

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The Perfect Man – the Victorian Bodybuilder exposed

I stumbled upon ‘The Perfect Man’ about a Victorian body-builder physical well-being guru while reading and researching ‘The magnificent Mrs Tennant’ by the same author. This is my second read; these...

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Could you imagine Julius Caesar under an umbrella?

Fig. 1. From Gordon Kerr-Smith ‘The Conquest of Britain’ Reading David Waller’s magnificent tome ‘The Magnificent Mrs Tennant’ I stumble upon an anecdote concerning Victor Hugo visiting the house of...

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The perfect Ger-man, British Citizen, Strongman entrepreneur

I find as I read David Waller’s biography of strongman Eugen Sandow that its relevance a century on is profound: it touches on fame, fortune and celebrity, advertising, entrepreneurship, showmanship,...

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