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Holiday reading

While I was away I read Matthew's Prize: Being the Tale of a Whitby Orphan Boy's Longing to Navigate the Broad Seas though I didn't know the title was so long at the time... it's about PIRATES, and it's quite good, if a bit of a blokey version of a m...

How big are these books that they won't fit in a bin?

I like the sound of monitor smashing guy

RE: How big are these books that they won't fit in a bin?

Ummm, their quantity is big, I meant.

Books We Like

Books in the wild

We did this with a couple of books when we were in Beijing last year but sadly never heard of them again!

I'm a morning person!!!!

Who was that clown on the train this morning - was it you? He was muttering to himself when there was no-one to talk to, and as soon as anyone sat near him hi gibbered and chattered and got them talking too... this disturbed my sleep. If you're on th...

Steve Lamacq

Friday 29th September, signing his book "Going Deaf for a Living".
Not very interesting in real life, even shorter/uglier/older than he looks on telly/sounds on the radio etc. The poor man's John Peel indeed.

Quite literarily, let's ROCK!

Borders Bookshop on Oxford St has a whole host of free gigs coming up, some of them even with FREE BEER! Clint Boon Experience are there on the 12th of May, at lunchtime, Seafood are there 6.30 the same day, and Hefner are there on the 25th. Stephen ...

And a gig that you CAN go to...

The gorgeous Cousteau play for free tonight at Borders Bookshop, on Oxford St, at 6.30... if you're in town, these "gigs" are well worth going to, and an opportunity to see this band is not to be missed.If you're in the suburbs of South East London o...

Heart To Heart

This is Mrs H, she's Goigus...No, not Hart To Hart, but Heart To Heart the book Britney Spears has written with her mum, Lynne Spears... what a smashingly inspirational Mothers Day present it would make! I'm sure you've all been thinking that for a w...

I am reading an BOOK

If you don't have a WAP phone, and can't play popEx on the move, then there is this other ace thing you can get, it is called "books". I am carrying one round with me now, it's ideal for when I can't get a signal on the mobile. It's the new Harry Pot...

More Terry Pratchett

That signed copy of Nation is riding high at over a hundred quid today. Just having a browse around ABE Books at [abe=terry pratchett]more Terry Pratchett[/abe], someone's selling an ex-library copy of The Light Fantastic for �500, that's what I've g...

Venice hoofs Folkestone out of the record books

Venice has hoofed Folkestone out of the record books, now a Turner painting of the Grand Canal in Venice has become his most expensive work, at over twenty million quid. Previously it was a view of Folkestone, sold in 1984 for somewhere around nine m...

Good book

While I was away I read Dialogues of the Dead, a book I picked up on the off chance at a car boot sale. It's a Dalziel and Pascoe novel, and I'd not read one before. It was great, really really good, and I'm very pleased that there are so many more i...

Wintersmith

I see not only that there's a new Terry Pratchett book out, but that Amazon have changed their URLs, so they now have the author and title at the beginning of them... this is GOOD for them, for getting a page listed higher in some search engines etc,...

I've read Girlfriend In A Coma too

That was OK I think, not as good as the other two, but I read a really bad review of his latest book in Private Eye. Can't remember the title of it, but there was a character in it called Douglas Coupland. Maybe it was Jpod....

Folkestone and its neighbourhood by S. J. Mackie

One resource that seems invaluable in Folkestone history terms would seem to be [abe=mackie folkestone neighbourhood]A Descriptive and Historical Account of Folkestone and Its Neighbourhood, with Gleanings from the Municipal Records[/abe], quite a mo...

Malice Box Quest

I made this, it's a game, all part of promoting a new book. The game goes live on 15th of Jan AFAIK, though you can register now. You can win a holiday and things by answering questions,following clues, and wiggling your way round a little google map...

Good second hand bookshop in Folkestone

Michael Gove says so, which one is that then? Is it Mappins?

Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

See this ebay auction, loads of really good scans of Harry Clarke illustrations there, worth checking out out just for those, even if you don't bid... In fact, please don't bid, because I might.There is a much later reprint available, that's too high...

Folkestone literary festival kicks off

We've got tickets on the way for a few events including David Starkey and Terry Jones, get yours at folkestonelitfest.co.uk/:We have carefully put together nine days of eclectic and exciting world-class authors and performers to entertain you. These ...

Harry Clarke / Fairy Tales

first edition Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales, quite a high starting bid of $280, but it does look nice......

A couple of modern affordable Harry Clarke books

Firstly Queens, I have a copy of this book, and it's nice but slim, it's a collection of colour plates of a series of nine windows that are in private hands, I think I paid twenty four pounds for mine, happy bidding... Secondly, a book that we got ne...

So this is who I was bidding against in that last Harry Clarke auction

I bought a 1931 copy of [abe]Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales[/abe] on ebay the other day for about twenty quid. It's in terrible condition (though I've mostly reassembled it) and some of the black and white illustrations have been crayoned in by a child,...

RE: Folkestone and its neighbourhood by S. J. Mackie

I don't know about the "low price" bit, but it's easy to [abe=mackie+folkestone]get one from ABE Books[/abe], it'll cost up to one hundred pounds, though [abe=mackie+folkestone]there's one here for less[/abe]. I didn't yet buy one, even though I said...

Beastery

A Folkestone writer and artist have made a book on mythical and literary books, from the pegasus and the Minotaur to vampires and Frankenstein's Monster. A less than serious version this book is written by Paul Wimsett and illustrated by Anne Wimsett...

Terry Pratchett's Colour Of Magic coming to Sky One

Only just seen a trailer for it, guessing it has not been on yet. Their Hogfather was OK despite not liking the story so I'm sure this will be goood. Interesting to see the same actors playing different characters (though in the same universe), David...

ABE Books also leaving Commission Junction

Hmm, ebay recently quit Commission Junction (an affiliate company, who make it easy for small fry like me to refer you to a company who pay a commission), and now ABE Books are off too, I wonder what's going on? There are millions of companies out th...

RE: ABE Books also leaving Commission Junction

Hello Pauly,I will totally agree with you that change CAN be a nightmare, especially for the little guy, but we're going to do our best to make the migration to Performics as painless as possible! All I can really say is that if you experience any is...

abebooks.co.uk are still recommending I join commission junction on their site

So, am I safe to stay where I am?

Terry Pratchett's "Carpe Jugulum"

Performed by the youth section of FHODS7:30pm. Tickets available in person from Hythe Bookshop, High Street, Hythe and Vine Books, 23 Cheriton Place, Folkestone. To book in advance by phone, please call Tony Cock on 01303 220580 or the box office on...

Plant Fair Weekend

Step into spring at The White Cliffs Plant Fair. A marquee at the Visitor Centre will contain thousands of plants to tempt your green fingers, grown especially by our dedicated volunteer growers. Other stalls include tombola and second hand books

The Books

Book Sale

26 Alexandra Road, Capel-le-Ferne, Near Folkestone, Kent CT18 7LNSale of Fiction, Non Fiction Adult and Childrens BooksPaperback and HardbackFiction, Gardening, Cookery, Art, Music, Sport, Hobbies, Reference, History, Humour, Astrology, Travel...

Auction of Victorian & Later Effects

Lots to include... Victorian, Modern & Reproduction Furniture, Paintings & Prints, Silver & Plate, Jewellery, Musical Instruments, Books, Clocks & Watches, Toys, Dolls, Ceramics & Glass, Postcards, Stamps, Medals, Coins & Ephemera etc.

Auction of Victorian & Later Effects

Auction of Antiques & Fine Art