Friends eldest is 10 and loves reading. I have started looking for second hand books for her. All the things I have thought about getting her but thought she was too young she has read or currently...
Can any of you bookworms help me please? Back in 1990 (poss 1989 or 1991)at Christmas I was given a hardback book set in India, not sure if fact or fiction but think it was fiction and I want to buy...
Hello I'm having a little trouble with the running order of these hard back novels from Marvel..The issue numbers and the spine numbers are different and there are classic editions with Roman...
I have asked this question on AB a few years ago but now can't find the answer, thus this is a repeat ! I am trying to trace a childrens book, published after the War, which I read in the late 50's....
Its been my task this year to work my way through all the PG Wodehouse books and I am just over half way. Its been a very happy experience indeed ! They are not the books that you should read on...
As an amateur writer who one day hopes to be published, I am worried that people might label me a copycat. I mean, someone told me that I should not write the novel in first person present tense...
Just finished reading The Book Thief. Has anyone else read it? Enjoy might not be the right word, but it certainly had me hooked. Very unusual style of writing.
In the late 70s I read a review of a book called "The adventure of the sanguinary Count". It's about Sherlock Holmes investigating Count Dracula. At the time, I tried, with no luck to buy a copy. I...
Not often I stick my neck out to recommend a book but I have just finished reading Entry Island by Peter May. Fantastic read, couldn't put it down. You won't be disappointed.
About 20 years ago I read a book review set in the future where people know of a Charles D..... (Dickens or Darwin) and confuse the 2. Anyone any ideas of the title?
I'm trying to find the poem Boy of Gull, Boy of Brine by William Heyen. I can't find a copy anywhere. Doe anyone have a copy, or know of any collections it is definitely in? Apologies if I don't...
S.O.C.A.L.J.O.T.A.R I have fresh clues from the quizmaster: Novelist and scientist go off together on a journey perhaps an expedition?. Both publish a book afterwards, the scientist's being...
Can anyone recommend any books written by any of the Mitfords please ?
I have ordered "The American way of Death" from ebay but I would welcome any other suggestions !...
On the publisher's page of many but by no means all books there is a series of numbers like those above. Usually increasing in a definite order and then decreasing similarly. What is the significance...
I am currently writing a story which starts at the end and then flits between past and present. I was just wondering if this will make it too confusing for the teacher reading it and if I should just...