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Certainly has potential! If you decide to send it to a publisher, don`t whatever you do, enclose a covering note telling them that you were, Quote: at home and board so i desided try my hand at writing. Unquote: More importantly, when sending material for consideration by a publisher...

Quote: ...too many stories of delivery boys getting their car stolen. Unquote: Are you saying that the delivery boys only have the one car? Your character has his own car; therefore one would assume that the other delivery boys also have their own cars: in which case... ...too many stories...

Hello Susan, I think the book you refer to may be one of 13 volumes originally published in 1991 by Milne Books under the title (rather long) "The Complete Book of Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls" ISBN:O6463952. That said, our Mr Milne - whom I have not heard of until now- seems...

You know, those obtrusive notes at the bottom of the page that, unless you have very good eyesight, you need a magnifying glass to read. Best described by John Betjeman as the "rash of foot and note disease". Don`t know about anyone else, but when they appear on almost every page, I find...

Just finished this book; it`s about Winston Churchill`s American grandfather - Leonard Jerome. The author, Anita Leslie, was related to Leonie Churchill (nee Jerome), youngest daughter of Leonard and Clara Jerome. One of eight brothers, Leonard Jerome was born in 1818 to very strict...

Thankyou for the welcomes. I`ve read most of Dickens my favourite has to be `Pickwick Papers`. Some amazingly funny characters; but then Dickens lived, breathed and had his being among real living people - people just like those he portrayed in his stories...

I read this book when I was about sixteen; it was the first - how shall I say - the first `grown-up` book that I read - my introduction, if you like, to classic (19th Cent) literature. I think I probably read it beforehand in comic form; there were some excellent comic books (Classics`...

Just registered, so a good time to introduce myself... Semi-retired, I live in rural Northumberland, close to the Scottish Border. I prefer reading the classics - Scott, Dickens, etc to the more modern literature. That said, I read all kinds of books - ancient and modern. I also like reading...