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Nothing seems to fit 12a. 'Tawdry art'. -L-S-H. Come on you bright girls and boys, give me some help. 15a. Is also unsolved. Something that causes excessive fear or anxiety....
We are having difficulty in parsing the last two clues, can you help? 19a. Shock revelation - money for image promotion suspect (7) We have s-r-I-e and we think it is surmise. 18d. Sky expert back...
From the author of ‘The Kite Runner’ and ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’. As to be expected, beautifully written but I’m not finding it easy to follow. With a succession of separate stories about...
This debut work of fiction is the best novel I have read for quite some time. Beautifully written.
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Can anyone help is there one of his sculptures in Stratford on Avon I know There is one in Stratford London, is it the same one? It's mentioned in (straight to the point) in the mail today. I have...
I used to have a URL which allowed me to search the whole of Gutenberg's output for a particular word or phrase. Looking for it I found this on the web:- There is a full-text search available at...
i have recently inherited a large brown and white ceramic ewer type jug.the overall colour is cream with a apple tree branch running round the bottom painted in a pale brown colour. the vase is highly...
This couple would probably consider Saint Swithin, rather than saint Valentine, to be their patron saint. The man tells the woman there is one gift he wishes he could give her, to last her whole life...
A teenage aspiring poet sends a valentine card to a girl with whom he has fallen in love, and whom he will continue to love, mostly unrequitedly, for decades. In a poem in which he finds some...
Victorian young women did not always conduct themselves with the modesty and decorum suggested by the popular stereotype. One particular young woman is in love, or perhaps in lust, with a young man...
A young man walks several miles to post anonymous valentines to four different women – the three daughters of his boss, and the best friend of the eldest daughter. The four women all guess the...
I’m having difficulty with the last three clues. Nearly there! 27A) European food fish with rounded boundies covered with large scales? _ _ _ C _ _ R _ S? 17D) A Caribbean evergreen tree with large...
Is anyone knowledgeable of, or clever enough, to find which museum houses Rembrandt's 'Self-Portrait in Fancy Dress'? I've run out of search ideas. He is looking out right side on, wearing a large...
A young lady who has just completed her Eng Lit degree told Bradley the longest book she's read was The DeVinci Code. Is it really on the curriculum or would she have read it for simple entertainment?...
At the start of the story, the narrator makes it clear that the citizens of Hadleyburg are proud of their reputation and certainly seem to care that everyone knows about it. Yet in setting up the...
Hi, My hubby's birthday is coming up, I want to get him a little supplementary gift to go with the others. He only reads non-fiction, and likes disaster accounts. He likes plane, train and air crash...
I love writing and people say I'm quite good at it but I get extremely nervous when the time comes to share my work... Is there any way to get over my fear?