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Best Book You've Read..

Looking for some new reads. Need suggestions. Current like crime thrillers, and positive uplifting books like the secret, law of attraction kind of books. Open to new ideas....

naomi24

The Girl On The Train By Paula Hawkins

A little while ago I said I couldn’t get into this book and someone here (sorry, I’ve forgotten who it was and which thread it was on) advised me to persevere. I took the advice and enjoyed the...

Elina

For Agchristie

I'm currently re-reading Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little N......', subsequently retitled 'Ten Little Indians', and now 'Ten Little Soldiers' - that, I suppose will remain until 'Soldiers' becomes...

mikey4444

I am working my way through all of Shute's book and I finished one of his best, at about midnight last night. "The Far Country" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Country_(novel) I read it first,...

mikey4444

How John Hersey's Hiroshima Revealed The Horror Of The Bomb

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37131894 I first read Hersey's account of the aftermath of the attack on Hiroshima about 40 years ago, and its something I re-read every now and then. I would urge...

Coppit

Project Gutenberg

I used to have a link which enabled a search for a word or phrase in every book in PG. Does anybody have it, please?

modeste

Looking For A Book

Some years ago I read a rather crude book about the residents of a square in London, with a rather suspect gardener looking after the shared square. Can't remember title or author TIA

CluckyChick

Meanwhile, Back At Benson's Bend

Please can anyone tell me which children's book featured a place called Benson's Bend, and hence the phrase "Meanwhile, back at Benson's Bend..."?...

woodelf

Class, A Novel

Does anyone know the author of the novel entitled Class; it's about a painter in Oxford. I'm slowly going through Amazon.co.uk, but there are so many versions of the word class, title-wise. Ta Muchly....

maggiebee

Fao Mikey4444

Know you are a lover of Nevil Shute books. I have been having a look through mine and find that I have 4 "doublers" - On the Beach, What Happened to the Corbetts, Ruined City and So Disdained. You...

mikey4444

Nicholas Montsarrat

Can anybody recommend some unmissable novels by Montsarrat ? I have read " The Cruel Sea" many times but nothing else. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/nicholas-monsarrat/...

jambutty

Behind Closed Doors

by B.A. Paris. Just finished reading this book, her first, would recommend it if you love a good page turning thriller. Brilliant....

mikey4444

Neville Shute

Shute has been one of my favourite authors for over 40 years. I think his books like "On the Beach" and "A Town like Alice" are almost perfect. He was able to tell a good story, very clearly and very...

agchristie

The New Russia By Mikhail Gorbachev

I've arranged to get a signed copy of his new book out soon! Anyone interested to read his views on Putin and the direction of Russia, this is a must!...

agchristie

Fao - Naomi

Frank Gardner's first work of fiction is published tomorrow. I've got a signed copy on the way! Thought you may be interested? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crisis-Luke-Carlton-Frank-Gardner/dp/0593075781...

Trevorblack2014

Can You Guys Please Analyse And Refute The Following Quote?

"Every time I hear someone use the word "cis" I die a little inside. Feminists truly are a joke nowadays, the little tumblrinas really need to get off their pretentious negativity trips. There are...

mikey4444