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« Reply #1450 on: December 20, 2019, 08:19:09 AM »
The Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl

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« Reply #1451 on: December 20, 2019, 08:02:02 PM »
Account of the Slavery of Friends in the Barbary States, Towards the Close of the Seventeenth Century: With Some Particulars of the Exertion of Their Brethren at Home for Their Redemption (Phew!) Edward Garrard Marsh and George Fox
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« Reply #1452 on: December 21, 2019, 09:06:18 AM »
Brethren - Robyn Young

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« Reply #1453 on: December 21, 2019, 12:22:54 PM »
Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes - Geraint Jones
(makes me think of Dire Straits, really liked them when I was 20something)
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« Reply #1454 on: December 21, 2019, 01:35:26 PM »
Sons and Lovers  - D H Lawrence

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« Reply #1455 on: December 21, 2019, 10:20:38 PM »
Wit and Wisdom for My Son - Mike Yaconelli
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« Reply #1456 on: December 22, 2019, 08:49:36 AM »
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life - Jasmin Darznik

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« Reply #1457 on: December 22, 2019, 11:06:32 AM »
Buried Life - Midge Turk
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« Reply #1458 on: December 22, 2019, 11:19:31 AM »


The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine  - Tom Standage

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« Reply #1459 on: December 22, 2019, 01:40:25 PM »
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse - Roger Lonsdale (ed.)
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« Reply #1460 on: December 22, 2019, 09:52:47 PM »
A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry -  Jack Myers, David Wojahn, Jack Elliott Myers (the two Myers are not the same person)
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« Reply #1461 on: December 22, 2019, 10:02:43 PM »
Verse and Worse - Harry Graham

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« Reply #1462 on: December 22, 2019, 10:58:48 PM »
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.

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« Reply #1463 on: December 23, 2019, 06:01:21 AM »
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
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« Reply #1464 on: December 23, 2019, 07:45:27 AM »
Fly Fishing - JR Hartley (Yes, it is a resl book: it was published retrospectively, some years after the famous advert.)
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« Reply #1465 on: December 23, 2019, 09:00:24 AM »
The Go-Between - L P Hartley

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« Reply #1466 on: December 24, 2019, 05:38:17 AM »
Toast and Marmalade: Stories From the Kitchen Dresser, A Memoir - Emma Bridgewater
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« Reply #1467 on: December 24, 2019, 08:15:26 AM »
"Marmalade" as in Hartley's jam? I thought of doing s link like that, but didn't, in the end.
The Duke's Cut: The Bridgewater Canal - Cyril J. Wood
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« Reply #1468 on: December 24, 2019, 08:48:41 AM »
Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis

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« Reply #1469 on: December 24, 2019, 12:29:29 PM »
Dr Thorne - Anthony Trollope
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« Reply #1470 on: December 24, 2019, 12:51:47 PM »
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough

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« Reply #1471 on: December 25, 2019, 12:10:49 PM »
"Marmalade" as in Hartley's jam? I thought of doing s link like that, but didn't, in the end.
The Duke's Cut: The Bridgewater Canal - Cyril J. Wood
Yes did mean Hartley's jam.
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« Reply #1472 on: December 25, 2019, 12:11:45 PM »
The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West
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« Reply #1473 on: December 25, 2019, 12:27:16 PM »
Falling Angel - William Hjortsberg

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« Reply #1474 on: December 25, 2019, 12:46:20 PM »
Angels: God's Secret Agents - Billy Graham
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