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    Name the Novel (How's that for alliteration?)

    Well if you're wondering if 'hirsuite' means concerned with hair, wonder no longer, you're quite correct. It was The Red Headed League .
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    A-Z of Non-Fiction

    Dictionary of Phrase of Fable by E Cobham Brewer (among others)
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    A-Z of Non-Fiction

    Art of War, The by Sun Tzu
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    A.A. Milne: The King's Breakfast

    In this A A Milne poem the cow mentioned is an Alderney. Is an Alderney the same as Jersey cow? There can't be that many cows on Alderney, can there? I think Jersey cows are brown, I'm not sure.
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    Name the Novel (How's that for alliteration?)

    You ought to get your deerstalker out...
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    Book Titles A-Z

    Xmas Carol, The by Charles Dickens (ok, bit of a swizz)
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    Book Titles A-Z

    V oyage to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne.
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    Harry Potter - What is a 'tea cozy'?

    No, a tea cozy (or cosy) is not a common thing here! Most of the time people drink tea straight out of the kettle, not using a teapot at all.
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    British money questions

    I wonder if you've also read of halfpennies and farthings, TMC. There's also half-crowns. It's confusing to us, and is was our currency.
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    Songs Inspired By Literature

    And there's certainly a lot of Beatles' lyrics which are a homage to Alice in Wonderland and the poems of Edward Lear.
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    Fairy tale? Impossible to find...

    The best thing to do with would be to scour collections of fairy tales (for example Grimm's Fairy Tales ) or a encyclopedia of such. I don't think its one of Hans Christian Andersen's or Oscar Wilde's fairy stories which are quite well known.
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    Name the Novel (How's that for alliteration?)

    This is more a short story rather a book. Due to hirsuite reasons a man has to copy out part of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica ,he engages a detective to find out why, who in term discovers a crime.
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    J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    Who's idea was it sell this book in threes as well as in ones? If you want three, why can't you just buy three?
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    i want to speed my reading

    Probably the best thing is to just to experiment and try and read a book as quickly as possible. It doesn't matter if you don't obtain the right information, go back and try again.
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    Books of your childhood

    I don't actually have a favourite author growing up, I just seemed to have read so many. But it does seem that classic children's books seemed to be read more by adults than children.
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