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A Journey

Tony Blair

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In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end...

The Little Book of Healthy Eating

Amicia Boden

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Tackling childhood obesity is a major priority for local authorities and health organisations, with...

P G Wodehouse: A Biography

Frances Donaldson

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Are there any characters in literature more famous than Jeeves and Wooster? Along with Lord...

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American Beauty by Thomas Newman

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"This is my alarm clock; I wake up to it every morning. It’s so brilliant because it begins with this... and then I listen to it when I read books on a loop and it’s enough for me. It’s all I need. I have like one song for every mood. “I heard this way before I watched the movie American Beauty. It was many, many years ago and it was one of the first songs I had. I had an orange iPod which I got for Christmas and I only had this song on it for years. I still think if I went into that iPod now, this is the only song I would have on it. I haven’t had it for years though, and they were such nice colours. “It’s good for walks in the forest, it’s like everything is still. Another is the Finding Nemo soundtrack which is also good for timeouts or when you go for walks. It’s really lovely.”"

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Woman's Hour: Words from Wise, Witty and Wonderful Women

Alison Maloney and Jenni Murray

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For the last 70 years, the guests of Woman's Hour have been entertaining listeners with their...

David McK (3425 KP) rated Biggles: The Camels Are Coming in Books

Jan 3, 2021

Technically, I'm too old for these books.

Thankfully, Amazon doesn't know (or care).

I've just re-read this for the first time in something like 30 odd years, and it's amazing how well it actually holds together all those years later.

Like 'Biggles Learns To Fly' (which I also re-read recently), this is more a collection of short stories with little in the real way of any over-arching plot: vignettes which, if the author is to be believed (and I've no reason not to) are all based on true stories that either happened to him or that he heard about during his earliest flying days in the latter stages of World War One.

While the character of Biggles may not be as popular or as well-known today as during the years in which the stories were written (the 1930 through to the 1990s), there's a reason why they have endured as long as they have ...