Years ago I read a Sherlock Holmes novel which was not by Conan Doyle.All I can remember about it is that Holmes and Moriarty were clones who came from the future to continue their battle.Does anyone...
It begins something like - Look into my eyes nurse, what do you see? and it was about an old lady in a nursing home telling the nurse how she was when she was young.Very touching, I would love to read...
My OH and I are trying to recall the name of a female author who has written a series of books which are, I believe semi-autobiographical. They feature the same 'heroine' in all and the titles all...
i overheard a girl talking about a book she was reading and was too embarrassed to ask the name lol. its about a man who is in love with a woman for years but he goes off travelling and ends up...
I'm thinking of setting up a book club for a group of people in the area. I live in a rural setting so people 'know' each other. I'd like other people's experiences of this kind of thing such as how...
Hi - I hope someone can help me, I remember reading a book about ancient Greece and its mythology, written in quite a convivial, informal style, and the front cover was a picture of a large urn with...
The plot for the novel (briefly): the last child has gone off to University and immediately the mother takes to her bed. She stays there for a year and records her emotions. Can anyone what this novel...
Hi, I'm looking for and old book where the main character meets a strange woman on a beach(?) not sure about the beach part. And then later finds his name being requested to be a hero in a paper. He...
I have published this previously on other AB sections but am still uncertain whether I can accept the answers suggested by other AB helpers. Thanks to them for suggestions. WHICH WORD/S CONNECTS THE...
In the early sixties in Australia I was a young teenager who loved books by a British author whose name escapes me. They were about children in English villages and the adventures they had together....
Bridgnorth Quiz again - who wrote the poems which contain the following lines - and the poem, please? 1.I watch his shadows, trying to enter the darkness. 2. I roll the warm wax within my palm. 3. By...
Looking to identify reference book from my childhood in the late 60's / early 70's. It was multi-volume (my parents had the first 3 or 4) and had teal coloured hard covers. Books were approx A4 in...
"And there's a hand, my trusty fiere!
And gie's a hand o' thine!
And we'll tak a right gude-willy waught,
For auld lang syne.
Happy Burns Night Everyone....