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Re: Recommendations
« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2009, 05:56:07 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2009, 06:06:24 PM »
Quote from: Nick on January 15, 2009, 05:56:07 PM
What is this nonsense?  evil:

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« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2009, 06:33:53 PM »
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« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2009, 04:31:47 PM »
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« Reply #20 on: February 01, 2009, 09:43:42 AM »
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« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2009, 10:15:48 AM »
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« Reply #22 on: February 01, 2009, 10:51:39 AM »
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« Reply #23 on: February 01, 2009, 10:52:02 AM »
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« Reply #24 on: February 01, 2009, 11:39:43 AM »
The 'frequently bought together' note on the Amazon link suggests The Lodger. It was R4's book of the week or dramatised last year I think... fascinating.

Anyhoo, I thought Kit Marlowe was a spy  cool14: , at least that's what we were led to believe when doing Tamburlaine the Great  whistle:
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« Reply #25 on: February 01, 2009, 11:40:53 AM »
Read The Lodger last year. Fascinating book.

I have just, finally, finished the book which Growler gave me for Christmas  cloud9:
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« Reply #26 on: February 01, 2009, 11:42:31 AM »
Intriguing! Are we supposed to know what that was?  whistle:
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« Reply #28 on: February 01, 2009, 11:49:25 AM »
Quote from: Nick on February 01, 2009, 11:43:46 AM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Railway-Bazaar-Through-Classics/dp/0141189142/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233488598&sr=1-3

Ahhh... fabulous book! It was that and Simon Winchester's "Korea - a walk through the land of Miracles" that inspired me to take the train from Pusan to Seoul rather than fly. A great journey  cloud9:
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« Reply #29 on: February 01, 2009, 11:53:57 AM »
Someone I knew was working in Dubai and had to come back to teh UK for aminor eye operation. He ended up staying with his deeply annoying father. Doc said he couldn't fly for 6 weeks. Fearing he would be driven insane he got Cooks to work out an overland route for him. It took him three weeks, but he reckoned his sanity was worth it  razz:
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