Janet

I really enjoyed Small Island too. There is a thread here about another of her books - Never Far From Nowhere. ETA: It's only a short thread!

Hotel Babylon?

An excerpt from the script came up on a paper two years ago! It compares quite nicely to the play "Oh! What a Lovely War". We're allowed to watch rather than read the script as long as, when we mention it in the exam, we say "in the TV/film version of..."

Sorry - I'm not quite sure what you mean? Voting?

Noooooooooooo.

In keeping with your title, a belated "welcome to the forum" from me!

I don't find him creepy. Mind you, he wouldn't fancy me!

I did say we got 16 too! Donna mentioned Murder on the Orient Express quite early on in the episode. There were also allusions to the board game Cluedo - Professor Peach being the obvious one!

According to the mighty Wikipedia there were 21: And Then There Were None Appointment with Death Cards on the Table Cat Among the Pigeons Crooked House Dead Man's Folly Death Comes as the End Death in the Clouds Endless Night Murder On The Orient Express N or M? Nemesis Sparkling Cyanide Taken at the Flood The Body in the Library The Moving Finger The Murder at the Vicarage The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Secret Adversary They Do It With Mirrors Why Didn't They Ask Evans And Donna also mentions Miss Marple. We got 16 of them too!

I watched Blackadder Goes Forth on Sunday, because it's relevant to my A Level! The perfect excuse to watch it again...

Lucy M. Boston. They're definitely still in print.

I did an advanced search and also came across... A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres The Daughter Game by Kate Long and The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan All mentioned in May - a conspiracy, perhaps?!

Ah, you're just saying that!

We're doing Shakespeare too! I didn't study Shakespeare when I was at school (a long, long time ago! ) or WW1 poetry. I'm loving both - I think perhaps age helps? Wilfred Owen is fantastic and I also like Sassoon - but also a lot of the other, less well-known, poets.

The Abortionist's Daughter was a Richard and Judy 'Summer Read' in 2006. I think Memory Keeper's Daughter might have been one of their recommendations too. ETA: The Historian (but no Daughter!) was also a R&J book. Not sure about The Historian's Daughter, but perhaps people though it was the R&J one?

I read Day of the Triffids for CSE English back in... 1981, I think. I can't remember an awful lot about it, but would like to re-read it again one day. I've re-read a couple of books I studied back then and think I definitely appreciate them more now I'm older!

This is a new name to me but I've just looked on Amazon and I like the sound of Yesterday in the back lane. I shall look out for her next time I go to The Bookbarn.

I wrote to Derren Brown a couple of years ago and he sent me an autographed photo!

Little did I know when I read and reviewed this in June 2006 that I'd be studying WW1 literature and poetry for A level English Lit two years later! I must dig it out and look for some useful quotes to learn!

I think Prospero was joking!

I enjoyed each of those too.

Isn't your name printed at the top? ETA: I've looked at mine - I'd write my name and address in the gap next to Guy Pringle's signature and put 'Subscribers name and address' above it.

Hello and welcome to BCF.

The Ghosts by Antonia Barber - filmed as The Amazing Mr Blunden. Unfortunately it's out of print now, but if you manage to get hold of a copy, and don't mind reading a children's book, it's an absolutely beautiful story.