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Date of book / How can I tell a first edition.
Ive got a book, The Magic Faraway Tree, which states in it; First Published 1943. There is not another date in the book and I know that it was first published in that year. The dust cover appears to be th... [more]
enfable
03/12/08
00:07
2 answers (last answered: 03/12/08 22:44)
book or film title
book or film title BBB?
oldbanger
01/12/08
17:28
2 answers (last answered: 01/12/08 20:58)
very old books
hello i have been given loads of books with notes on the inside cover with dates they were given to my great uncle here is a just a few of them the pilgrims progress 1892...lord kitcherner 1917....jane eyre 1937..... [more]
lemmy
30/11/08
15:24
1 answer (last answered: 30/11/08 17:26)
Children on the Hill by Michael Deakin
I have just re-read this book from the seventies which is the true story of a family of four gifted children. One was a mathematician and another was a talented pianist. I have always wondered what happened to them ... [more]
Scorpio60
30/11/08
10:39
2 answers (last answered: 01/12/08 21:22)
Is John Clare Pagan
Is John Clare, english poet, pagan? I heard he was and now cannot find any articles saying he was... thanks in advance
SuperPigeon
27/11/08
17:40
4 answers (last answered: 29/11/08 19:34)
Software for Writing
Well, Im now retired and have the time to see if I can write something that a publisher will think is worth printing in hope of selling. I have made a few submissions, but so far Ive only received an occasi... [more]
Old Salt
25/11/08
12:32
8 answers (last answered: 27/11/08 19:37)
i,ve lost my book
i,m trying to find the title and author of a book.... its a horror with a dark cover. it,s about an american scientist who is self medicating on a dna regenerating drug... his wife leaves him and meets another fella... [more]
louise783
18/11/08
22:25
1 answer (last answered: 19/11/08 13:24)
Sir Ranulph Finnes
where can I get old books , but NEW if possible by Sir Ranulph Finnes the feather men the sett Living dangerously
1delboy
18/11/08
16:50
1 answer (last answered: 18/11/08 17:40)
Odd one out and why please
Hi, which is the odd one out in these 56novels and why please I am completely stuck, cant see anything in common. Thanks in advance Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy night William Faulkner: The sound and the fury ... [more]
ruggief
17/11/08
20:44
9 answers (last answered: 18/11/08 09:18)
Book Name
what is name of a book with a one word title which is made up of first three letters of the tetravalent metalloid element extensively used in chips and the name of the band whose first lead singer was known as Fish... [more]
oblongata
17/11/08
17:53
3 answers (last answered: 17/11/08 18:24)
Please help steer my son off of Horrid Henry!!
My son is nearly 10 and loves the Horrid Henry books and is coming to the end of the series. Can anyone recommend another series of boots for his reading age.
loggy01
16/11/08
19:27
11 answers (last answered: 24/11/08 22:54)
authors
????? neruda chilean poet?
wuzzer
16/11/08
16:41
1 answer (last answered: 16/11/08 16:43)
chimamanda ngozi adichie's book Purple Hibiscus
what is the theme of this book, anyone know?
ireland4eva
16/11/08
15:13
1 answer (last answered: 16/11/08 15:15)
Rosamunde Pilcher's Summer Solstice
We have been trying to find the paperback of Summer Solstice all night online but so far we have only come up with DVD results under this title (DVD made in 2005). Am I going daft or was the paperback originally wr... [more]
scampchen
15/11/08
21:37
3 answers (last answered: 15/11/08 23:35)
New Author
Not a question, but isn't it great when you find an author you haven't read before and you really enjoy his book? I have just found Bryce Courtenay!!
Tizzi247
11/11/08
07:33
5 answers (last answered: 12/11/08 16:45)
German Author
In the 60s I was given a paperback about a private in the German army. It was a transaltion from a German novel, and was very funny. Unfortunately it was lost during a house change. Does anyone out there know the na... [more]
sandmaster
10/11/08
10:52
2 answers (last answered: 10/11/08 14:59)
Childrens book about spaceships
Bearing in mind that this was about 15 years ago, I once read a set of books at primary school about a a group of spacemen (it was kind of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Sharship Troopers all rolled into one). I vaguely ... [more]
antdunn007
07/11/08
16:42
Trying to remember a book.. its driving me mad !
I read a book about 3 years ago about a young boy who grew up in the 1970s on a council estate in Croydon. It is a story about abuse and neglect by his alcoholic mother and father, his struggle and how he has now ... [more]
Woodnutt
07/11/08
15:26
3 answers (last answered: 08/11/08 15:08)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
I've just finished reading this, and I thought it was excellent. I liked The Kite Runner, but this, in my opinion, was better. Does anyone know if a film is in the pipeline?
naomi24
06/11/08
15:04
3 answers (last answered: 06/11/08 16:37)
jennifer weiner
how does the book certain girls by jennifer weiner end? :)
glorybox6
05/11/08
22:56

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