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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 was reading a book by Dick Francis the other day. I noticed that there were a few 'Amercianisms' eg gasoline and sneakers instead of petrol and trainers which I thought was odd. When I looked, it...
Has anyone read a quite old novel called 'The Wasp Factory' by Iain Banks? It's set in a Scottish island, with a troubled teenager as the narrator. I can't find it in any bookshops as yet and wouldn't...
Here is a seasonal one! A few years ago I heard this thing on the radio which was a response from the recipient of all the gifts in the Christmas song. It was in the form of a letter after each gift...
I remember reading something like this ages ago and this is all I can remember, it was a book about a teenage girl having an affair with an older man, might have been married I can't quite remember!...
I am waiting in anticipation for my local library to get me the new Janet Evanovich book. Does anyone know how long before the library gets books after the release date.
Does anyone know of a good site to download audio books from (particularly after Black Hawk Down)? Doesn't have to be a free site as long as the price isn't too high. Thanks
i know its difficult to get a book published if you're not famous but my autibiography is now ready, its called my search for love and charts my early life up to the age of 16, my family and friends...
I have just finished reading "Point of Origin", one of the Patricia Cornwell novels featuring Kay Scarpetta. I am confused because in this book, Benton Wesley, Kay's boyfriend, is killed but in a...
Can anyone suggest a good funny book and say what sort of humour it is? Looking for ideas of a book to read once I've finished the David Pelzer books, want something funny to contrast with a very...
were all old art works privately commissioned- or did artists produce work on their own violation?, also im told that such commissions were fierecly expensive and would cost the equivalent of millions...
I have just finished reading Plath's novel The Bell Jar and earlier this year I read and studied her poem Lady Lazarus and I am amazed at the frequent and continuous references to peanuts. The...
the following clue should lead to a character and book can anyone help please this sixty something man reflects on a traumatic childhood visit to a norfolk country house
does anyone know the name of this poem and who wrote it. "Now he had a wife the plague of his life, who continuosly got his goat. Then one day at dawn with his night shift on he slit his bloody...