Set in England after some sort of apocalypse. The survivors split into two factions with the scientists and tekkies on one side (the bad guys) and all the creative people - writers, artists, being...
It's a book (novel about world war one) I heard about a year or two ago - it had only been published in French and had done really well. It's English translation was being delayed for some reason -...
I'm thinking of running my car on vegitable oil, i have been told that if i mix some white spirits in with it i can put it straight in my tank and drive off. is this true if not does anyone know what...
Now that the nights are drawing in I feel like settling down with a good book. I quite fancy an enviromental distaster novel set in the present or future. Any ideas would be appreciated
I own a property jointly there is a charging order on it for a debt in my name. The debt is nothing to do with my co-owner can the creditor stop the sale if the debt is nothing to do with my co-owner
Hi I'm looking for suggestions of any good novels set in contemporary Japan. I know most of the popular Japanese authors, so I'm more interested in any western novel set there, for the western...
Read a book years ago which I'd like to find..as much as I recall is the sea disappeared and a man,the main character, walks from one of the Channel Islands to England..not much to go on but if anyone...
can somebody help me track down the name of a book I read a few years back about a lawyer sent to jail. He ends up sharing a cell with the top dog and befriends him by writing letters for him. I...
When my mum went on Holiday i was in charge of watering the Plants, One afternoon about 5.30ish out of her bedding plants came out the biggest moth you ever did see. it was abit smaller than a tennis...
Someone has just told me Hyenas can change sex if there are not eonough males around (or vice versa i would expect). I thought this was impossible in mammals but he seems certain it is true.
My daughter has a tropical fish tank and 3 weeks ago bought a flat fish that she was told was called an Asian river sole by the tropical fish shop. We never ever saw it eat anything and have just...
A couple of years back I read a book about an American who wanted to be as alone as he could get, and did his best to find a place where he could be on his own. He eventually died in Alaska in a...
We woke this morning hearing a very strange bird noise, only to find a beautiful parrot in the trees in our garden. I reported it to the RSPCA who said unless I am able to catch it, there's nothing...
After years of reading modern literature, I am now setting myself the goal of reading a few classics! I have 'done' to kill a mockingbird, 1984, of mice and men, animal farm, catcher in the rye. Of...
