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message 1: by Lynne - The Book Squirrel (last edited Jan 25, 2013 05:37AM) (new)

Lynne - The Book Squirrel (squirrelsend) | 3122 comments 1) Philip Larkin
2) George Orwell - Animal Farm
3) William Golding - Lord of the Flies
4) Ted Hughes
5) Doris Lessing - The Fifth Child
6) J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
7) V.S. Naipaul
8) Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
9) Kingsley Amis
10) Angela Carter
11) C.S. Lewis
12) Iris Murdoch
13) Salman Rushdie
14) Ian Fleming
15) Jan Morris
16) Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-
17) Anthony Burgess
18) Mervyn Peake
19) Martin Amis
20) Anthony Powell
21) Alan Sillitoe
22) John le Carre - The Honourable Schoolboy
23) Penelope Fitzgerald
24) Philippa Pearce
25) Barbara Pym
26) Beryl Bainbridge - According to Queeney
27) J.G. Ballard
28) Alan Garner
29) Alasdair Gray
30) John Fowles -The Collector
31) Derek Walcott
32) Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
33) Anita Brookner
34) A.S. Byatt - The Children's Book
35) Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
36) Geoffrey Hill
37) Hanif Kureishi
38) Iain Banks
39) George MacKay Brown
40) A.J.P. Taylor
41) Isaiah Berlin
42) J.K. Rowling - All the Harry Potter books
43) Philip Pullman -His Dark Materials
44) Julian Barnes - Arthur & George
45) Colin Thubron
46) Bruce Chatwin
47) Alice Oswald
48) Benjamin Zephaniah
49) Rosemary Sutcliff
50) Michael Moorcock


message 2: by Lynne - The Book Squirrel (last edited Jan 03, 2012 08:14AM) (new)

Lynne - The Book Squirrel (squirrelsend) | 3122 comments There are more I have done but bored putting in the titles so will add when more time is available!


message 3: by Ian, Moderator (new)

Ian (pepecan) | 5088 comments Mod
I believe you Lynne


Lynne - The Book Squirrel (squirrelsend) | 3122 comments Ian wrote: "I believe you Lynne"

It takes so long to add the book with the link as it won't put it where you put your curser so you have to fiddle about morving it!

And I have been doing the dutiful neice and visited the Ancient aunts and uncle for the last couple of days and had no internet.

Will be adding them when I have got through all my 100 or so emails!


message 5: by Ian, Moderator (new)

Ian (pepecan) | 5088 comments Mod
I have that trouble too with links being put at the bottom of text when editing. Anyone know how to do it easily?


message 6: by Susan (new)

Susan The same always happens to me too Ian.....I would love to know how to avoid this happening.....it's such a pain!


message 7: by Ian, Moderator (new)

Ian (pepecan) | 5088 comments Mod
Em will know........but depends if she's been on the cider again as to when she responds if at all


message 8: by Em (new)

Em (emmap) | 2707 comments Hearty haha!!

You're in luck and I'm off the cider so far today. I usually add the link which shows at the bottom of the post you are editing then, right click, cut and paste it into the right place (which is probably what you're doing already!)


message 9: by Ian, Moderator (new)

Ian (pepecan) | 5088 comments Mod
ooh ar ooh ar - ta.......thought you may know a quicker way down in Brizzle


message 10: by Em (new)

Em (emmap) | 2707 comments alrigh' me luvverrrr


message 11: by Lynne - The Book Squirrel (last edited Jan 15, 2012 05:51AM) (new)

Lynne - The Book Squirrel (squirrelsend) | 3122 comments Don't look many now I have put the ones I have read, I do have three on my tbr shelf for John Fowles, Mervyn Peakes, Pop Larkin, Beryl Bainbridge and Alan Garner but I have only heard of a couple more of the authors!


Lynne - The Book Squirrel (squirrelsend) | 3122 comments Finally added 3 more.


message 13: by Ian, Moderator (new)

Ian (pepecan) | 5088 comments Mod
And only taken a year lol....which ones are new?


Lynne - The Book Squirrel (squirrelsend) | 3122 comments Julian Barnes, Beryl Bainbridge and John Fowles - just forget this list is here but nice to tick of some though!


message 15: by Em (new)

Em (emmap) | 2707 comments I'm making slow progress on this list too...


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