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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 have just binge read this novel. I couldn't put it down. What a page turner, especially towards the end!
Highly recommended, if you haven't read it....
There’s a Sunday morning market there all year round, we passed a stall selling books for as little as 50p, I saw quite a thick hardback ‘ LULU’, my daughter said ‘get it, she’s of your era’ so I did...
Hi there I am reading a book only about halfway through I have to return it today, can’t get it renewed, desperate to know how it ends. Why is her mother in prison? Does she end up with her colleague?...
Has anyone actually managed to read this whole book?? I’ve started it 3 times and got a couple of chapters in before giving up! It’s just so ….wordy!! A sentence that could take say 15 words he uses...
Always loved Mary Poppins as a child. Still do.. Staying with my daughter in Hertfordshire at the moment and she took us to see the show at theatre in Leicester Square yesterday. It was quite good not...
Anyone know anything about him? I think he wrote the words or music for 'When Father Papered the Parlour'. He used to keep a pet marmoset on his shoulder and was a fan of rent-boys. Surely someone...
Barry is now 88 and still performing with a UK tour this year & continuing to work hard for the dissemination of Australian culture. This is vintage stuff ( not for the 'woke')...
I always loved the sort of novel that begins in the Club where an Old Member, who doesn't usually say much, taps out his pipe and says, "That reminds me of an incident from my youth... a rather...
and the evidence that he was the true author of the plays, sonnets etc that have been attributed to a William Shakespeare. Would anyone care to explore this and what leads us to believe it?
TLS 1422: 11ac "Northern staff securing a working farm animal" (8) I biffed Jacobean - a cob, the working farm animal, but, for me, the rest was Parse Over... Help, please....
My 8 yr old boy can read but is reluctant to do so, he enjoys being read to .I’m looking for books that will encourage him to voluntarily pick one up and dive in. We’ve read all Enid Blyton, some...