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Ugly Martha

I am trying to find an old book which was in our family maybe from as far back as tha 50's. It may have been titled 'Tales from (or of) Wonderland' but i'm not certain on that. it was an illustrated...

daffy654

R.I.P.Gary Gygax

The author and co creator of Dungeons and Dragons has died http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/report -gary-gyg.html My sympathy to his family.

williaca

Book and Authors

Dear Sir / Madam, I am looking for a book I had read in the early 1970s during my early years in schooling. Can you help me by providing the name of the book and the author of the book? The book is...

williaca

Look for a name of a book and the author

Dear Sir / Madam, I am looking for a book I had read in the early 1970s during my early years in schooling. Can you help me by providing the name of the book and the author of the book? The book is...

briky86

Name of Book

I can not remember the name of the book, however, there was 2 girls who had to go live with an aunt and her sons. They abused them and in the end the oldest girl was killed. I would love to read the...

cherryb6

Tom Leonard book on women

is there a book or poem about women by Tom Leonard

Duchess7

Good books needed!!

Can anyone recommend any good books?? I like anything along the line of Lesley Pearse, Marian Keyes, Patricia Scanlon, Sheila O'Flanagan.. (I've read most of their books).. Any idea please???

cherryb6

Tom Leonard

works by Tom Leonard

Raassay

Last of Kin

I am reading a short story written by Jo Banniser called 'Last of Kin'. But I don't understand this expression in it ; assorted Shakespearian gravediggers and sword-carriers whose first names were...

crisgal

midnight library children's books

has anyone read these? They get really good reviews, but no-one says whether or not they are scary! I wonder if they will be to frightenening for a 9 year old? thanks x

angelamc

a children's book

I read a book in the 1970's. It was about a girl who went to live in a house where there was a bloodstain on the floor of something like a garage. A girl had been murdered there years before, I think...

crystal12345

Ice maiden i have a question for you.

What books did you write? So i can read them of course.

kirsteenatom

Times/Waterstones Christmas quiz

I've just started looking at this - we did well here with the times/faber one - are we going to have a joint go at this one? http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/art...

alankinguk

J P Donlevy - Fairy tale of New York

Any one got a copy pf page 16 they can scan for me?

maryholter

Poem "The Green Veil" - anyone know it?

Does anyone know the poem "The Green Veil" - first seen in Punch magazine in the late forties - anonymous. First line = "It was the willow who first wore it, she with her weaving fingers tore it..."...

stewey

Poetry Readings?

Some of you might find this site interesting. http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Classics. html

red buzz

maltilda

who is the author?

marwel7

Dr Who short story

I seem to remember reading a Dr Who short story where several womwn companions from various eras met up and discussed the Doctor.I think it was from either the Decalog (Virgin) or Short Trips(BBC)...

saxy_jag

Ronnie Barker - The Three Graces

I once had a book of saucy humour penned by the late Ronnie Barker/Gerald Wiley. In it, there was a poem entitled 'The Three Graces' - a rather irreverent ditty about a painting on a wall at Keble...

red-forest.

jack merriott ri

Hi,Does anybody know when was - THE JACK MERRIOTT WATER COLOUR COURSE - being produced,its the correspondece course which was later published as Discovering Watercolor,the edition i have came in a...

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