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The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse.
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"Cheaper by the Dozen" ~ Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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The Dirty Dozen ~ E M Nathanson

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"Dirt Under My Nails" ~ Marilee Foster
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Under Milk Wood ~ Dylan Thomas
Edited by dai Cottomy, Jan 21 2017, 11:16 AM.
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In a Dark, Dark Wood ~ Ruth Ware

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A Walk In The Woods ~ Bill Bryson
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Long Walk to Freedom ~ Nelson Mandela
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The Long Night: A True Story ~ Ernst Israel Bornstein









Edited by dai Cottomy, Jan 28 2017, 04:19 PM.
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The Night Manager ~ John le Carré
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ~ Mark Haddon
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The Old Curiosity Shop ~ Charles Dickens
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The Chain Of Curiosity ~ Sandi Toksvig
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Daisy in Chains ~ Sharon Bolton

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Daisy Miller ~ Henry James
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The Miller's Tale ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies ~ Beatrix Potter
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A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona ~ William Shakespeare
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ~ Anita Loos

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Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Jeeves & Wooster) ~ P.G. Wodehouse
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Travels With My Aunt ~ Graham Greene
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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Wonky Donkey ~ Craig Smith [this was an incredibly popular success in NZ children's books coming with a tape of a song with it]
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The Donkeys ~ Alan Clark
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The War of the Worlds ~ H. G. Wells
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Around the World in 80 Days ~ Jules Verne
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Ten Days That Shook the World ~ John Reed
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The Lost World ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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Paradise Lost ~ John Milton
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Paradise Regained ~ John Milton
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This Side of Paradise ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Hill Sides: The Best of David Hill ~ David Hill (NZ mostly children's author)
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Blue Remembered Hills ~ Denis Potter
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A Pair of Blue Eyes ~ Thomas Hardy
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For Your Eyes Only ~ Ian Fleming

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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed ~ Alan Alda
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ~ Mark Haddon

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The Old Curiosity Shop ~ Charles Dickens [which I am in the process of reading at the moment, though it has been put on hold for my bookclub book and others]
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The Shop at Sly Corner ~ Edward Percy
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The House at Pooh Corner ~ A. A. Milne
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The Lake House ~ Kate Morton
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The Lady in the Lake ~ Raymond Chandler
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Lady Chatterley's Lover ~ DH Lawrence

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Sons and Lovers ~ DH Lawrence
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Dombey and Son ~ Charles Dickens
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All My Sons ~ Arthur Miller

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My Lord John ~ Georgette Heyer (one of my very favourite authors)
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Prester John ~ John Buchan
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Gwen John: An Interior Life ~ Cecily Langdale & David Fraser Jenkins
Edited by dai Cottomy, Apr 22 2017, 12:49 AM.
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This Sporting Life ~ David Storey
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I Know This Much is True ~ Wally Lamb
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How Much Land Does A Man Need? ~ Leo Tolstoy
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The Man Who Knew Too Much ~ G. K. Chesterton

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He Knew He Was Right ~ Anthony Trollope
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The Right Stuff ~ Tom Wolfe

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The Rights of Man ~ Thomas Paine
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The Man With No Endorphins ~ James Gorman

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ~ Oliver Sacks
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The Cat in the Hat ~ Dr Seuss
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"The Cat that Walked by Himself". Just So Stories ~ Rudyard Kipling
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning ~ Laurie Lee
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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This Sporting Life ~ David Storey.
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"Farewell to Sport" ~ Paul Gallico

[I think we have had This Sporting Life quite recently, Douglas]
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A Farewell to Arms ~ Ernest Hemingway

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Arms and the Man ~ George Bernard Shaw

Caro
May 7 2017, 07:50 AM

[I think we have had This Sporting Life quite recently, Douglas]
Guilty.
I see I did it about twelve days ago
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Man and Superman ~ G.B.S.
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At the Supermarket ~ Anne Rockwell
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Death at the President's Lodgings ~ Michael Innes
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Shaking Hands With Death ~ Terry Pratchett
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Death on the Nile ~ Agatha Christie

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On The Waterfront ~ Marlon Brando, Lee J.Cobb, Eva Marie Saint
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I think you have the wrong thread, Dai. This is the literary one, not the movies. But I will go with it, rather than think of another book with Nile in the title.

"Waterland" ~ Graham Swift
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Gulliver's Travels ~ Jonathan Swift
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Travels With My Aunt ~ Graham Greene
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"Walking Home: Travels With a Troubadour on the Pennine Way" ~ Simon Armitage [a book I loved]
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The Way We Live Now ~ Anthony Trollope
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The Way of the World ~ Auberon Waugh
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The Way of All Flesh ~ Samuel Butler
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All Flesh is Grass ~ Clifford D. Simak
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All the President's Men ~ Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

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The Man in the Iron Mask ~ Alexandre Dumas
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The Iron Man ~ Ted Hughes

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The Iron Heel ~ Jack London
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A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance ~ Jane Juska
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Around the World in Eighty Days ~ Jules Verne

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The Day of the Triffids ~ John Wyndham
Edited by dai Cottomy, Jun 1 2017, 02:24 PM.
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The Day of the Jackal ~ Frederick Forsyth
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Another Day in the Death of America ~ Gary Younge

It is difficult to understand the US attitude to guns. It isn't shared by the whole country, but we have seen recently how futile the attempts have been to change things.
Edited by dai Cottomy, Jun 3 2017, 11:35 AM.
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Death on the Nile ~ Agatha Christie
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The White Nile ~ Alan Moorehead
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The Blue Nile - Alan Moorehead (I've read them both)
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Blue Jellyfish Syndrome: How to break free from stigma and maintain hope while living with a mental illness ~ Karen Unrue

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Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir ~ Ken Clarke
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A Kind of Loving ~ Stan Barstow
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Loving Ways ~ Maurice Gee
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The Way of the World ~ Auberon Waugh
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A Way of Life: Over Thirty Years of Blood, Sweat and Tears ~ Reg Kray
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Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery ~ Henry Marsh
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A Life In Questions ~ Jeremy Paxman

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