What's the name of the website where you can input vague memories of a book you once read, and it tells you what it was called?

marthaboo, it could be Enid Blyton's Six Cousins ( at Miseltoe farm) series, set on a farm, that's where the chicken coop wuld fit in.

Yes I will - I was planning on looking next time we're at the library.

Whenever we go and dd is browsing I always pick up one of the Enid Blyton's that I used love and start reading it.

No way surfermum! I love that! I feel like I read it when I was about ten or something - it's amazing how some things stay with you for so long(in my case over 20 years). I'll be getting a copy of it, how about you?

Frisbyrat - no, not Ride a Wild Pony. Thanks though.

Could be, Kathy - a good excuse for a trip to the bookshop, anyway.

For a moment there I thought we needed to set up a website for people who can't remember the name of a website they've seen somewhere...

Kathy - no it wasn't him but thanks for the suggestion. It was translated into English by the way - my French doesn't stretch as far as reading surreal novels!

I've just remembered - the site is part of abe books. They have a book sleuth section.
Does that sound like it? I've found out loads of stuff from other people there.

I've used the book search website you're talking about - will have a look on my faves and see what I find.

I have one too! I always thought it was by Enid Blyton but I have searched every bibliography of hers I can find online and it's not listed.

It's on the lines of Famous Five or Secret Seven...but there are 6 of them and they call themselves the Sturdy Six. I clearly remember the conversation in the book where they decide a name - and dismiss things like Steadfast Six. Their club-house is in a chicken coop/shed...with a ramp leading up to it (I don't know how they fit through the door).

I have searched and searched for this book - to the point where I'm doubting my memory of it. There couldn't be an Enid Blyton book that only I have ever read, could there?

Boo, could that be something by Alain Robbe-Grillet? (My brother read French and I vaguely remember him talking about something of the kind; also there is a book about him called The Erotic Dream Machine.)

Can't help with anyone else's books ... but can anyone identify a mid-20th c. children's book (author along the lines of Violet Needham, but I don't think it's her) set in 17th c, with a girl called Perdita and a boy (with dark red hair, I think) called Diccon?

ok this one was by a French author, quite weird and philosophical and about a man who invented a machine that could program your dreams. The corporate world tried to hijack it and put lots of adverts on his machine. I also remember some confrontation on a golf course at the end. I'd love to reread it but have no idea what it was called! I read it maybe 10 years ago.

I think the author had a double barreled surname.
Any ideas anyone??

Frisbyrat, your one with the children on the train couldn't be Coot Club by Arthur Ransome could it? It starts with Dick and Dot meeting Tom Dudgeon on a train, and later on they meet the 3 Death and Glories one of whom has a pet rat.

OMG Walnutshell , that is so spooky. I looked at the thread title and thought "I've always wanted to know what that book was that I read about the girl in the house and the stones outside - I bet it can't tell me that".

I have one...I read a story in an anthology long time ago, some fairy tale collection. The story I loved was about a girl who was whisked off by the wind, or a wind god, or something, and was shown all the delights she would have if she was to marry him, and become immortal. But she chose instead to fall in love with a mortal boy, and so the wind had to give her back. I was so cross with this ending that I remember tearing out the offending page, and cannot remember the name of the book, author or story. I want to find it again and try and read it again and grow up!

This is a brilliant thread, I will try and think of some more.

xx

Love this thread!
I have one:
Its a childrens story about some mice who live in a mill. I think they are 'at war' with the millers cat. Then the miller decides to drown the cat in a sack, but the mice nibble through the sack and rescue him and they are the best of friends.

Any ideas?

you have it you really do

Ooh Sophable- I am so pleased - I have never had anyone's eternal gratitude before

OHMYGOD 3LITTLEFROGS it IS the little white horse!@! cannot believe you got that from what i posted!!!!

hurray!

StripeyKnickers, could you mean Ride a Wild Pony, a book by James Aldridge? Mine had a photo of a ragged boy riding a palomino pony bareback down a dirt track on the front.

My query is: has anyone come across a short story in a book of ghost stories for adults which features a man walking up One Tree Hill in SE London, and going back in time as he does so? I got the collection out of my local library a couple of years ago, but cannot find it again, and nor can the library staff!

Or (even more vaguely), a children's book which included a pair of children on a train at one point, and the boy had a pet rat and was explaining how chocolate is bad for them - to a girl, I think. Not much to go on...

All right I have one too! Childrens book from the 70's, and it's bugged me for years now.

Girl and little brother stumble on fairies, by a river? The fairy she makes friends with is a bit stroppy and called "Brec". Somehow her little brother gets enchanted by the less friendly fairies/fairy king and they have to get him to sing to break it, they end up singing "Frere Jacques" because he knows it and has to join in.

I had thought it was called "seven for a secret" as that song cropped up too but no amount of googling has brought up the right thing.

Sophable - could it be "The little white horse", or "The princess and the goblin"?

oh if anyone knows this one i would be eternally grateful.

all i can remember is girl in different place to usual and has a turret room with an ornately carved ceiling.

which is absolutely fuck all to go on, but all i have. i know i loved this book, but cannot remember anything else.

it is a childrens book.

can anybody tell me if there is something like this to trace films? thanks

glad i could help!
I never seem to forget authors or titles, just the content of the books!