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?

Myjobismum- the book about the holiday and the guy on the beach is by jenny eclair 'having a lovely time' - i read it and wasn't sure what to espect, but found it quite good, though not a laugh out loud type book IYSWIM

just found this lovely thread - if anyone remembers a children's book about a terrible toddler (???called bodger) you would make half my family happy.
All we can remember is the line "one day he decided to find out What flushing loos was all about..something something something..help help I'm drowning".
Would love to find it, in order to 1) read it to ds1 and 2) give it to my brother for Christmas...

MrsMuddle your story sounds like an HH Munro plot, but the setting in Borneo or Malaysia could be Somerset Maugham. But you'd have to go through a lot of his stories. He probably wrote at least a hundred set in that part of the world.

Stripeymama,

the cover (without dustjacket, don't remember it having a dustjacket) was green.

The descriptions of the house, false rooms, priest holes was very exciting. The treasure was lots of gold plates, chargers, candle sticks and think they were on steps going down to the dungeon. I'm not even sure there were baddies - maybe just lots of treasure. The grandfather adopted her.

Totally clutching at straws - the typeface was not 'childish', no pictures. Fairly sure it was written by a bloke and remember no other books he's written.

I'm sure I only read it once which means it would have been at an elderly relatives house. It wasn't one I actually owned.

Lauriefairycake - any more details? Is dingling in my head!

Oh, it's been driving me mad! I'm sure I've read it too. It's not HH Munro (or at least, not in my collection, or the library one).

So now TWO of us are being driven batty by it.

What a brilliant thread, with some really brilliant people on here finding things!!!

I have loads in my mind... will narrow one down and post tomorrow... hoe excellent! thank you all

ps am loving some of your descriptions and also, wanting to read some of them!

This book has been haunting me for years.

It's an 'old' book - 50s maybe earlier

Girl goes to live with grandfather in large country house. Mystery erupts. Priest hole and tunnel through house - lots of treasure in the tunnel. Baddies obviously. Girl solves mystery.

It was written rather well from what I remember, not really written childishly.

Any ideas????

strange but true!

one book has been bugging me for the ten years since i read it and gave it away. have googles descriptions and never come up trumps.

was about to post the vaguest description - largely consisting of my memory of front cover!

and THEN just as i was typing, the title came to me! after 10 year block!!!!!! abe'd then googled and its right!

Loose Change by sara davidson BTW

ahhhh... a little mumsnet miracle

Victoriansqualour, thanks a million

Love this thread.

Recently read a book which I'm sure was called "Where they were loved" about an Irish family and centred on the mothere and her two daughters. I've tried to Google the title for the author's name but nothing! It's contemporary fiction, female author, was pretty good, wanted to reccommend to my mum. Can anyone help?

there's only details of my current books on loan

Erm, I think you go onto the northamptonshire libraries website (I assume it's that one?) and put in your library number, (the one on your card) it might ask for a pin, but if you haven't set it up I don't know, I think you just ring the library and get it.
If you mean actually find the books once you're in the site go to your account and it says something like 'view items I have borrowed'

oooh how do i do that VS?

StripeyKnickers, would it be this??

UrbanDryad, do you not have internet access to your library account? It should have all the bboks you have borrowed on there, not sure how long for though.

I have a book memory if anyone can help.

Set in Austrlia in the outback many years ago. A boy is crippled with polio and gets about on horseback as he can't walk well.

ok - ledodgy - your mission, should you choose to accept it:

fantasy type adult novel. main character is a girl, and there are 2 countries at war, and she fights as some sort of telepathic soldier. then these diplomat type people turn up from another country, and one of the diplomat blokes seduces her but he's really a total bastard and is fucking with her head. anyway, she escapes him, and sorts everything out. there's something to do with walking towers. i read it when i was pg, i'm sure, and it was a library book, but i'm certain that if i go in there and rabbit that at them they're going to think i'm insane and ask me to leave!

thankyouthankyouthankyou!

Sorry, that should have been:
try this

If anyone has books they can't find on MN I found Abe books very useful in tracking things down. Try [http://forums.abebooks.co.uk/abesleuthuk this]

OH MY GOD- thank you so much to washersaurus, choosyfloosy and popsycal- you are amazing. I can't tell you what it means to me. I am going to order the book now, I really cannot believe that I will be reading that story again, after it haunting me for years and years.
Wow, I just love mumsnet

The Joan Aiken cereal box garden one is here