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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 read this about ten years ago, but can't remember the name. A girl librarian finds a clue relating to a book in the library. She finds the book and there is a dare in it, with a monetary reward....
Some ten or twelve years ago a book was published that had two parts. The first part was the description of passengers in a number of different carriages of a train. The second part was in the form of...
I have always avoided so-called 'cult novels', feeling that I would be reading them just because I ought to rather than because they interested me, and many of them seemed so 'laddish'. I now feel I...
I am looking for a reading which I heard at a wedding recently which talks about how marriage is like a garden. Does anyone know who this is by? I believe it is quite modern.
Its about a women who is on an field expedition in the Antartic and then there is some sort of epidemic or something. There is an underlying story about the dead and ghosts and the fact the only...
About a naked woman hugging a dead pig? Can anyone tell me her name or the name of this piece as I've just heard it on the radio and she was getting slated! Thanks! X
Does anyone know of a way to safely copyright your work other than sending a copy to yourself, or that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I've just discovered - after many years of posting everything to...
Why does this phrase keep coming to mind? Was it a book, a book's chapter, a period drama? Does it chime with a memory of a 19C TV drama series of an old man and little girk wandering East London,...
Does anyone know where I can buy Pop art/lichtenstein/warhole etc on line for sensible money? Failing that, does anyone know anywhere in South Wales that sells such things? I really don't want to...
Has anyone been to see this at the theatre? I have looked for reviews but am a bit confused whether it is any good or just a gimmicky show that I will find a bit strange??!!!
A couple of years back I read a book about an American who wanted to be as alone as he could get, and did his best to find a place where he could be on his own. He eventually died in Alaska in a...
During the 1960's Roger Vadim directed a film, released in the U.S.A. as No Sun in Venice. I saw the film then but have not been able to find anything on the film in the U.S.A. Perhaps, it was...