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    Quote Originally Posted by Bojangles9 View Post
    Ha ha I did wonder, why I never revealed it, so as not to spoil it for others.
    I was the same. Sounded up my fathers street, googled it and only found a reference to ‘Lost In Aberdeen’.
    Still never twigged, I even wondered about her changing the title. Tried again and penny only dropped when next link led to a post followed by a heap of smilies.

    Good een WTFC
    I was visiting my Dad at the weekend and my brother sent it to us. Had me stumped too until I said it out loud to the old man!

    Sorry folks

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhenTattieFlooredChas View Post
    I was visiting my Dad at the weekend and my brother sent it to us. Had me stumped too until I said it out loud to the old man!

    Sorry folks
    Well, played, sir.

    Very well played indeed.

    Great darts, min.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhenTattieFlooredChas View Post
    I was visiting my Dad at the weekend and my brother sent it to us. Had me stumped too until I said it out loud to the old man!

    Sorry folks
    I went as far as putting the authors name into the library catalogue.


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    The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac by Mark Blake.

    Certainly not a fan of the group in any way, but what a story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDeeDon View Post
    I read Earth the other week. Couldn't see the other two at the library, but had just looked on the shelf.

    Will check if they are out or at any other library.
    Penguin press release on the final part of Boyle?s quadrology, Air will be available from 1 May - keep The Red Flag flying here etc - :

    ?From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son.

    Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it?s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn?t expecting them.

    Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him the man he is, but now threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. This trip could bind them closer together, or tear them further apart.

    In this penetrating examination of action and consequence, fault and attribution, acceptance and resolution, John Boyne gives us a redemptive story of a father and a son on a moving journey to mend their troubled lives.?

    I?ll be straight into it as soon as I?ve completed listening to Barry Hines?s ?The Gamekeeper?, finished both ?John and Paul? and ?How To Build A Boat? on e-book, and David Hepworth?s ?A Fabulous Creation? and the ACL copy of Anthony Quinn?s latest behemoth ?The Mouthless Dead? both in Proper Mannies? paper format.

    Retirement - sitting on yer erse reading books waiting to die.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57vintage View Post
    Penguin press release on the final part of Boyle?s quadrology, Air will be available from 1 May - keep The Red Flag flying here etc - :

    ?From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son.

    Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it?s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn?t expecting them.

    Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him the man he is, but now threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. This trip could bind them closer together, or tear them further apart.

    In this penetrating examination of action and consequence, fault and attribution, acceptance and resolution, John Boyne gives us a redemptive story of a father and a son on a moving journey to mend their troubled lives.?

    I?ll be straight into it as soon as I?ve completed listening to Barry Hines?s ?The Gamekeeper?, finished both ?John and Paul? and ?How To Build A Boat? on e-book, and David Hepworth?s ?A Fabulous Creation? and the ACL copy of Anthony Quinn?s latest behemoth ?The Mouthless Dead? both in Proper Mannies? paper format.

    Retirement - sitting on yer erse reading books waiting to die.
    Taking a hoor o a time to get the third part of the Boyle books from the Library. Think there are still 6 before my shottie. I'll have to be quick off the mark when Fire comes out.

    We're all waiting to die min. Just be glad you made it to retirement age.

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    The third part - Fire - is another one of Boyle?s tales that makes you wonder where he gets the inspiration, and you?ll marvel at the depth of his research. There?s a subtle connection with Water which I think you?ve read. The boy?s a genius.

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    Been meaning to hunt out John and Paul. Well prompted.

    Light reading has been Palin’s Monty Python Diaries, where the penny just dropped that Miriam Stoppard was married to Tom.
    Can’t believe I never twigged that afore

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bojangles9 View Post
    Been meaning to hunt out John and Paul. Well prompted.

    Light reading has been Palin’s Monty Python Diaries, where the penny just dropped that Miriam Stoppard was married to Tom.
    Can’t believe I never twigged that afore
    My copy of John and Paul is a readable file in a format sent by My Man Who Knows About These Things. In the middle of the night, assuming that I was nearing the end of it, I tapped on the page only for it to reveal that I was on page 342 of 643. Blimey and crikey.

    It is beautifully done, and the author was a very insightful guest on the Word podcast a few weeks ago.

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/7pd...RKueXpMIn_24uw

    SORT OOT THE FROCKING PUNCTUATION SIBO YOU USELESS TROLLOP

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bojangles9 View Post
    Been meaning to hunt out John and Paul. Well prompted.
    I finished it last week. It was like climbing Lochnagar - a long, strength-sapping endeavour, but worth it for the view, the glow of satisfaction st the well-being reward, and the pints in the Coilacriech afterwards.

    Some of the most interesting passages were in the post-Klein era as they communicated intermittently. The description of Paul taking part in a televised Desert Island Discs - with Roy Plomley, no less - had me scarpering into the lift to get away from the sudden overpowering effect on my eyes of the ingins in the kitchen drawer.

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