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Books & Authors
I enjoy biographies, true crime, etc but would like to try more novels, last one I read was Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones. Favourite classic was The Mayor Of Casterbridge.
'Keeping the Dead' Like it so far. Anybody else like her ?
Is it necessary to read The Kite Runner before reading A Thousand splendid suns? I was buying the latter from a Charity shop when another customer assured me that it was best to read the Kite Runner...
I heard at the weekend that Tom Cruise is to play the part of Jack Reacher in a film edition of one of Lee Child's books. Can this be true???
Any ideas please ? I would like to read one from a German or someone who spent the War in Occupied Europe.
I read a book a few years back and cannot remember the title. It's about a girl who wants to make it as an actress. She marries a well known actor who has a stroke (or something similar), she nurses...
I have a few books that I intend to sell on Amazon. I need to know whether if some of the books are First Editions. I know this probably wont add much value to recently published books, but it might...
Any ideas please. Thanks folks
This author has been recommended to me. Would someone who has read his books please advise on which one I should read first? Thank you
The student Alba was asking me last night if I could recommend any titles for him to look at/read. It is part of his college course, but can't think of any. I know we could google but I'd prefer a...
i have not read it, however i know lots, both female and male who do. what is so special about the book?
Was it known to the Nobel Committee that Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengalee writer?
I once read an Irish short story of a fisherman who is ultimately lost at sea. The story is made up of seven chapters, one for each day of the week, but spanning the fisherman's lifetime. Does this...
Does anyone remember who was asking about this some weeks ago?
can anyone remember a short story by Robert Bloch about a small, gentle breeze in a city alley that develops into a raging storm that destroys whole cities? I can't remember the title - thanks
Just heard on the news that Maeve Binchy the Irish novelist as died, she was a very popular author I enjoyed her books I have friends who knew her personally and they tell me she was really lovely,...
What has become of the AB reading club set up by sunny dave? Have I missed it?
I would really like to know where Hogwarts school in the Harry Potter books is in the world. It can be reached by the Hogwart's Express which lives from London's King Cross railway station, but where...
Hubby is blind and reads a lot of spoken word he is trying to remember an author he thought it was Elizabeth Arden but I explained she sells beauty products ! this book was about a haunted house near...
Have just finished reading Bermondsey Boy: Memories of a forgotten time... autobiography by Tommy Steele - Being a cockney he uses the rhyming slang sometimes and couldn't understand what...
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