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« Reply #1500 on: January 02, 2020, 04:36:37 PM »
The Lion in Winter - William Shakespeare
Not one of Will's. James Goldman

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« Reply #1501 on: January 02, 2020, 04:40:25 PM »
The Princess Bride - William Goldman

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« Reply #1502 on: January 03, 2020, 06:27:14 AM »
You're right about that, I was thinking of The Winter's Tale and didn't check but I won't alter it. Let it stand as it is as a lesson to all who think they know literature & become careless!

TheVicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith

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« Reply #1503 on: January 03, 2020, 07:38:06 AM »
The Bishop's Wife - Robert Nathan

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« Reply #1504 on: January 03, 2020, 05:16:29 PM »
Mystical Paths - Susan Howatch
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« Reply #1505 on: January 04, 2020, 04:15:26 PM »
The Road Less Travelled - M Scott Peck

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« Reply #1506 on: January 04, 2020, 04:28:20 PM »
The Ode Less Travelled - Stephen Fry.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane

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« Reply #1507 on: January 04, 2020, 04:34:53 PM »
The Alien Corn - W Somerset Maugham (title comes from Ode to a Nightingale)

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« Reply #1508 on: January 04, 2020, 06:07:22 PM »
Children of the Corn - Stephen King
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« Reply #1509 on: January 04, 2020, 06:36:26 PM »
Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter - A E Moorat

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« Reply #1510 on: January 04, 2020, 08:43:08 PM »
The Stealer of Souls - Michael Moorcroft
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« Reply #1511 on: January 05, 2020, 11:19:16 AM »
The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe

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« Reply #1512 on: January 05, 2020, 11:44:04 AM »
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'
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« Reply #1513 on: January 05, 2020, 12:05:22 PM »
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
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« Reply #1514 on: January 05, 2020, 12:14:02 PM »
Deliver Us From Evil - David Baldacci

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« Reply #1515 on: January 05, 2020, 12:48:45 PM »
Wicked. The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West - Maguire Gregory
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« Reply #1516 on: January 05, 2020, 01:22:38 PM »
The Wizard of Earthsea  - Ursula Le Guin

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« Reply #1517 on: January 05, 2020, 01:58:01 PM »
The Wizard of Whirlaw - William Holt
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #1518 on: January 05, 2020, 04:13:59 PM »
Glamorous Powers - Susan Howatch
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« Reply #1519 on: January 06, 2020, 09:26:13 AM »
Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess

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« Reply #1520 on: January 06, 2020, 09:27:26 PM »
Full Moon - Michael Light
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« Reply #1521 on: January 07, 2020, 07:22:54 AM »
Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer

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« Reply #1522 on: January 07, 2020, 05:11:29 PM »
 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C S Lewis
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« Reply #1523 on: January 07, 2020, 05:50:31 PM »
Seance on a Wet Afternoon  - Mark McShane

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« Reply #1524 on: January 07, 2020, 06:24:54 PM »
Ectoplasm: As Hypocrisy Blurs - Jr Bryant, Gregory
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