bunyip Wrote:
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> Hemingway's (I think, etc) story of cold and
> mankind: Of Ice and Men.
>
> Or was it Salinger or someone else. Answers on a
> sine wave please. Steinbeck? I'm waving, but probably going off at a tangent
>
>
> There's always the story of an angry Librarian:
> 'Ook Back in Anger'. (Joe Orton I believe) Osborne?
>
> Conrad, I think, wrote of an agreeable ship in
> 'Two yeas before the Mast' Yea! We agree on this one!

Richard Adams classic tale of Rabbit Mafia - Watership Don

The tale of a very loud banjo player "I'm leaning on a Amp"

The town of Portwen rises up against bad manners in Otis Redding's "sitting on the doc of the bay"

Lottery winners visit Slovenia in "At Hom with the Braithwaites"

Exhausted detective threatens divorce and takes to her bed for a year.

The Woman Who Did A Lot

Sons and Overs

Hanky- panky on the sporting fields of England.

The Bids

Daphne du Maurier struggles with Ebay

Mansfield Par...Nottinghamshire municipal golf course unveils a notoriously

difficult 470 last hole. Members found in state of near starvation trying to complete.

Continuing with Austen:

Lay Susan - approximate story line.

Mansfield Ark


Heavy rain on a Nottinghamshire golf course causes a rash of boat building as


course officials search for grimly determined players.

From Austens Juvenilia - Vol 2 we present

'A Tour through Ales'

(or 'after 20 pints, not quite the lady you thought I was')

A letter from a young lady about dark drinking days.

Man Field Park

one mans life long work of cultivating a world class park land for a plain agricultural plot

Sale's Lot

A move from Austin to Stephen King's little know book on a car dealership forecourt

A whole series of books about fish (courtesy of Amazon):

the Cod book - Simon Singh

The Da Vinci Cod - Dan Brown

The Highway Cod

Working Effectively with Legacy Cod - Michael Feathers

Cod Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Cod Talkers of WWII - Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila

The Eternity Cod - Eoin Colfer

The Cod of the Woosters - P. G. Wodehouse

A few noted while searching for other things:



The story of a nice young bloke: An Acceptable Tim

A blind person in a stove appliance: Eyeless in Gaz

Asimov’s study of male sexuality: The proper Stud

C S Lewis caught at a naughty practice: Surprised by Jo

Living in trepidation of a very small invasion: waiting for the barbarian.

Noddy's struggle with obesity "Noddy and big ars"

The Secret Sven - Enid Blyton tale of a Scandinavian Spy in Post War Britain. How did he survive extreme interrogation techiniques involving lashings of Ginger Beer?

Rider Haggard's quiet little story "Sh"

Also from Rider Haggard -

King Solomon's Mimes - a cautionary black and white tale of inaction