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Adrian Mole was quite good, so was Dracula. I read one by Roy Hattersley about his pet staffy which was quite funny..I think it was called Buster

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I saw a film adaptation of The Secret Garden recently, very moving. The Island of Dr. Moreau is genuinely quite spooky.. Animal Farm

Emotive story about a man whose wife leaves him. He is alone with a son to raise, and he must take a lot of menial jobs to make ends meet. Recounts the various humiliations he has to suffer on his way to building a good future for his son. A moving account of the selfless love of a father for his son. Well worth reading. 7.5 out of 10.

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I thought it was really funny..particularly Crap Car and things like that..

I don´t know, I think maybe I´ve got the wrong end of the stick there..

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Wow Maureen, get out more

The TV Kid by an author whose name I

I know, the Oxfam shops are pretty smart - even if I do say so myself. But, as I say, the books are expensive compared with other places. It depends where it is, too. Ours isn´t too bad for clothes and bric-a-brac, but if it´s in a posh area, or down south, they bung big prices on things.

I know. I like P G Wodehouse, and if I´m not there to rescue them, they probably just go in the bin. It would be better if we had a separate shelf for tatty books at a lower price, but alas, I am but a small cog in the wheel. I might suggest it to the manager the next time I see her, see what she thinks.

I work Saturday afternoons in our local Oxfam shop, and they reckon that books are now the biggest earner. But ours aren

Ah, right, I might try that one then, thanks. I´m reading Five Little Pigs, a Poirot one, at the moment.

This is about a plot to bring about anarchy and revolution in the UK by a criminal mastermind and his associates, and the race against time for the good guys to find Jane Finn - the missing link in the puzzle - and secure the sensitive treaty that threatens to spark all the trouble. Set in the twenties, this reads a bit like a grown-up secret seven adventure, with characters Tommy and Tuppence looking for adventure and becoming embroiled in the intrigue. I had an inkling who the master criminal was going to be quite early on in the book, but it keeps you guessing because there are a few twists and turns and you don´t really know for sure until the end. I thought it was quite good. 7 and a half out of 10.

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Has anyone else read it?

Excellent true story of a boy

It was published in 1925, so I suppose the tally-ho, jolly hockey-sticks approach was of that time. But it

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Normally a bit of paper.

Rumpole Sherlock Holmes Jeeves and Wooster

I think I prefer paperbacks, because they