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Somebody recommended a book to me and told me what it was about and did give me the title, but I've plum forgotten it and all I remember is that the story is about a man who gets transformed into a...
who is the author and what is the name of the story - it's about a brid that sings, and the more it sings it keeps losing a drop of blood from its heart until it dies - it sings so that two people in...
My 8 year old son's homework is to write a verb for each letter of the alphabet. Obviously some are easy but we could do with some inspration for the 'difficult' letters, any ideas? (It's a bit sad...
Many years ago, (1970?) on the Thought for the Day BBC radio programme, the speaker said words something like, Start by loving your neighbour and end up loving his wife. Can anybody pinpoint this...
Around 1950, in a GCSE or mock exam, a question asked, Define / discuss [or whatever] When the monkey is king, everyone shall bow [or kneel] before him. Any ideas about where this might have come...
when his date wakes up this vancouverite thinks about life, the millennium and zzzzz does anyone know what character this clue is referring to and which book he is from many thanks
It was David Forrest being mentioned in the previous threads that started me thinking. How do publishing companies decide what material of a specific author they want to publish, particularly if the...
I've noticed that a lot of people (not just on AB) put lolol id there posts. Well that doesn't make sense because lol mean laugh out loud, so you'd be saying laugh out loud out loud???
I heard an Item on Radio 4 a frew months ago about a new website that was supposed to be the 'future of publishing'. You submitted your work to it, then were paid small amounts by subscribers wanting...
I read a book years ago and can't for the life of me remember what it was called or who wrote it. All I can remember is that it was about a cult that got their claws into some young kids and their...
hi southerngirl yes a good blast from the past ! But can anyone remember the author. all i can remember she had always one stocking up and one down.Do not recall Pippy Longstocking though.Thanks...
Can anyone recommend any good what I call Sci-Fi / lite books ? By this I mean Stories where strange thing happen in every day surroundings. Such as special powers ,Time Travel etc. The sort of things...
Does anyone know if The Pact has been made in to a film? I have just started reading it and I'm sure i've seen a film along the same story line. Thanks