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If you are looking for information about books then head to Books & Authors. The Arts section covers all sorts of topics like theatre, exhibitions, paintings and much more.
I saw a painting with the above title in a Brittany shop and would love to get hold of a print of it for my wife. I tried Google, and they mention a work of the same name by Zdriluk, a Canadian...
Hi guysi need help in any form on this one, i have a dissertation proposal hand in in two days and today met with an advisor who pretty much rubbished my ideas. i want to do it on the portrayal or...
I saw a really good film on I think B.B.C.4 about a Jewish Italian family who were interred and sent to a concentration camp, the film focussed on the father and his attempts to shield his son from...
Which novel was written from the perspective of diaries by a nazi officer and a jewish woman. I've read it years ago but have forgotten the title & author.
I remember reading autobiographies from a woman who was in her twenties during World War II. The books describe various sexual encounters and the author's quest to experience orgasm. I know there were...
How do I spell Kafloowy? Phonetically it's ( ka flew ie) It's a word that means to go crazy or it could mean that circumstances got all mixed up or out of control. For example... Everything went...
I recently saw a picture (not a painting) it was a little bit like a cartoon figure. It was of a man dressed in a pink rabbit/bunny suit. In the picture, he's crying, the ears are lopsided and he's...
I saw a painting years ago of a bride getting reading for her wedding day and she had her bridesmaids around her helping her get ready, it's a pretty old painting. Does anybody know what it's called...
How do other readers react to errors in the text of a book? e.g. the butler referred to as Smith suddenly appears as Jones, and the main suspect who lives at Rose Cottage now seems to reside at...
Wasn't sure where to put this message. How does an actor "pretend" pain, say when he plays a character who has to have a bullet removed without anaesthetic, does he "visualise" the pain or use painful...
I'm trying to track down a poem by Sir Walter Scott called The Minstrel's Request (or possibly the Minstrels' Request) and have so far failed completely. Please please - anyone out there know it?