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Books No-one Seems to Know???

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flamesparrow · 21/04/2005 08:17

Have you got any books that if you mention them that people don't seem to have heard of it??

For me, it is 'Danny Yates Must Die' by Stephen Walker.

Oooh, or a book I had as a child... 'The Rare Spotted Birthday Party'.

Maybe if we list our unknown books here we will find someone else who's heard of them!!!!

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Oliviab · 27/04/2005 21:21

Has anyone else heard of Elizabeth Pewsey? She wrote the very funny Mountjoy novels about a bunch of amoral toffs set in the 1970s - is it just me and my mum that have read her?

LeahE · 26/04/2005 22:18

I've read Ella Minnow Pea -- in fact, it was a discussion book on Abebooks about a year ago.

swedishmum · 26/04/2005 21:53

Did anyone else read The Hairdressers of St Tropez? The narrator was a dog and there was a big conspiracy theory about forest fires. Maybe it was one of my dreams??

moondog · 25/04/2005 08:39

God yes!
Some book I had as a kid (mid 70s)..lonely brother and sister coming across an old couple living in a time warp,dressing in an old fashioned way, surrounded by gloomy furniture.Only thing I remember is that one of them was called Pilar.
I so wish I could find it again.

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flamesparrow · 25/04/2005 07:40

Finished. Was great - slightly insane, but great.

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Hausfrau · 24/04/2005 17:03

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flamesparrow · 24/04/2005 10:21

Hausfrau... halfway through and loving it .

Boy asked if it was good just as I started laughing out loud. Did have weird dreams about DD calling me Uy because all the m's had gone

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suedonim · 23/04/2005 21:21

I'm sooooo glad other MNetters have heard of Anne Marie McD! No one round here has, except the one friend i mentioned. It's funny how she doesn't seem to feature anywhere in book reviews, in shop promos and so on. I think she must be a bit like Barbara Kingsolver, who seems to have become well known by word-of-mouth.

Anyway, I've got AM MacD's second book on my shelf, Tamum.

popsycal · 23/04/2005 21:07

holding baby and the light bulb has just blown

tamum · 23/04/2005 21:05

Giving coddy a run for her money there, popsy?

popsycal · 23/04/2005 21:04

oooops

popsycal · 23/04/2005 21:04

i loked fall o yur knees too

tamum · 23/04/2005 21:02

Oh do, hana, it's one of my favourite books for ages

hana · 23/04/2005 20:49

also loved fall on your knees.
I've had her second book gathering dust on my shelf for ages......must dust it off and start reading it!

(nice to see some cdn lit here!!)

tamum · 23/04/2005 20:23

suedonim, I loved Fall on Your Knees too. I've been raving extensively on here about the follow-up book too, which is even better

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flamesparrow · 23/04/2005 08:47

Got it!!!

Ridiculously fast... ordered it yesterday morning from one of the normal people type sellers (not amazon themselves), and it arrived just now!!!

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flamesparrow · 22/04/2005 11:29

Ordered a used one

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flamesparrow · 22/04/2005 09:17

That sounds like my type of book!!

Will go to amazon and put it on my wish list now.

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flamesparrow · 21/04/2005 13:08

What's that about then?

I'm enjoying hearing about books for me to go buy!!

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starshaker · 21/04/2005 12:37

that would be why i cant find it then. thanx

JanH · 21/04/2005 12:10

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