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The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse.
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Crown and Country: The Kings and Queens of England ~ David Starkey
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The Far Country ~ Nevil Shute
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"Far From the Madding Crowd" ~ Thomas Hardy [this is our bookclub book this month, though only I was excited about it, I feel.]
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The Land of Far-Beyond ~ Enid Blyton

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Beyond Good and Evil ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Good Wives ~ Louisa May Alcott
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The Merry Wives of Windsor ~ William Shakespeare
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Merry Adventures of Robin Hood ~ Howard Pyle
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ~ Mark Twain

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The Tale of Tom Kitten ~ Beatrix Potter.
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"The Widow's Tale" ~ Mick Jackson
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The Reluctant Widow ~ Georgette Heyer
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The Reluctant Dragon ~ Kenneth Grahame
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Dragons at Crumbling Castle ~ Terry Pratchett
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I Capture the Castle ~ Dodie Smith
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Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy ~ Sheldon Whitehouse
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The Quiet American ~ Graham Greene
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All Quiet on the Western Front ~ Erich Maria Remarque
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A Quiet Life ~ Beryl Bainbridge
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking ~ Susan Cain
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The War of the Worlds ~ H. G. Wells
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"War Horse" ~ Michael Morpurgo
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The Horse Whisperer ~ Nicholas Evans
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Trojan Horse ~ Mark Russinovich

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In Search of the Trojan War ~ Michæl Wood
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In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat ~ John Gribbin
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"The Cat in the Hat" ~ Theodore Seuss
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The Man in the High Castle ~ Philip K. Dick
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The Man Who Was Thursday ~ G. K. Chesterton
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Apr 19 2018, 09:58 AM
The Man Who Was Thursday ~ G. K. Chesterton
Currently listening on Radio 4 Extra...13 eps x 30 mins... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jw4p



Thursday's Child: A Frieda Klein Novel ~ Nicci French
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A Child of the Jago ~ Arthur Morrison
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The Children of Húrin ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
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Five Children and It ~ E. Nesbit.
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Five Give Up the Booze (Enid Blyton for Grown Ups) ~ Bruno Vincent
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I bought that range of Blyton for Adults as stocking fillers at Christmas! 📚


Five Go Gluten Free ~ Bruno Vincent
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds ~ Joy Adamson
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"The World According to Garp" ~ John Irving
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The War of the Worlds ~ H. G. Wells
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Apr 20 2018, 11:25 PM
Five Give Up the Booze (Enid Blyton for Grown Ups) ~ Bruno Vincent

That's one of the few books mentioned here that I have read. <laugh>


The Lost World ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Legion of the Lost ~ Jaime Salazar
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Apr 23 2018, 02:46 PM
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Apr 20 2018, 11:25 PM
Five Give Up the Booze (Enid Blyton for Grown Ups) ~ Bruno Vincent

That's one of the few books mentioned here that I have read. <laugh>
I'm currently dipping into 'Five Get Beach Body Ready' <whistles>

Ok, following on from Legion of the Lost - Jaime Salazar



The Lost Colony ~ Eoin Colfer
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Roanoke – The Lost Colony ~ Jem Bruce
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Lost Horizon ~ James Hilton
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Blue Horizon ~ Wilbur Smith
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Blue Remembered Hills ~ Rosemary Sutcliff
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The Blue Book ~ A.L.Kennedy
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"The Book of Daniel" ~ EL Doctorow
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Daniel Deronda ~ George Eliot
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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer ~ John Mack Faragher
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Daniel: A Tale Of Two Cities ~ Bob Fyall
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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding ~ Beatrix Potter
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Christmas Pudding ~ Nancy Mitford
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A Christmas Carol ~ Charles Dickens
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Carol ~ Patricia Highsmith ....excellent film version of the book dealing with lesbian love exists starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, directed by Tod Haynes.
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Carol Rama: Space Even More Than Time ~ Lia Gangitano and Andrea Bajani



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Space ~ James A. Mitchener
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Kemlo and the Space Lanes ~ E. C. Eliott


(Used to love the Kemlo books when I were a nipper.)

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"The Ocean at the End of the Lane" ~ Neil Gaiman
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The End of the Affair ~ Graham Greene
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Wots the betting we have a run of affairs now! <whistles>


The Sicilian Affair ~ May Mackintosh
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The Sicilian Mafia : The Business of Private Protection ~ Diego Gambetta
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"A Very Private Gentleman" ~ Martin Booth
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady ~ Anita Loos
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The Diary of a Nobody ~ George & Weedon Grossmith
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The American Diary of a Japanese Girl ~ Yone Noguchi
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The Quiet American ~ Graham Greene
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"All Quiet on the Western Front" ~ Erich Maria Remarque
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All the King's Men ~ Robert Penn Warren
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"King Solomon's Mines" ~ Rider Haggard
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The Man Who Would be King ~ Rudyard Kipling
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The Prince Who Would Be King ~ Sarah Fraser
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The Prince and the Pauper ~ Mark Twain
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"The Poet and the Pauper" ~ George MacDonald
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The Poet X ~ Elizabeth Acevedo
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The Poet ~ Michael Connelly
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Introducing George the Poet ~ George the Poet
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"Georgy Girl" ~ Margaret Forster
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Girl with a Pearl Earring ~ Tracy Chevalier.
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The Pearl ~ John Steinbeck
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The Last Pearl Fisher of Scotland ~ Julia Stuart
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"44 Scotland Street" ~ Alexander McCall Smith
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Scotland the Brave 2006 ~ John Laffin
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Braveheart ~ Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
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May 7 2018, 01:30 PM
Braveheart ~ Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
That's a film and utter twaddle.
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Sorry about that :$


Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley
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The World According to Garp ~ John Irvin
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The World According to Bertie ~ Alexander McCall Smith (again!)
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Bertie Changes His Mind ~ P. G. Wodehouse,
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The Happy Mind ~ William R Yoder PhD
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Mind at the End of Its Tether~ H. G. Wells
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The End of the Affair ~ Graham Greene
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"An Affair of the Heart ~ Frank Sargeson [NZ author]
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The Heart of Midlothian ~ Sir Walter Scott
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The Heart of the Matter ~ Graham Greene
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Heart of Darkness ~ Joseph Conrad
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"Dark Fire" ~ CJ Sansom
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Love C J Sansom...correction: love his Shardlake series of books adapted for radio by the BBC...they are excellent!



Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House ~ Michael Wolff
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The Woman in White ~ Wilkie Collins
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The White Ship ~ H.P. Lovecraft
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Jane's Fighting Ships ~ ed. Francis E. McMurtrie

I spent much time as a schoolboy studying this book during the war in the Reference Dept of the Carnegie Library in Ayr.
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