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  • Daphne du Maurier: The King's General
  • Deborah Lawrenson: The Secretary
  • Richard Cohen: How to Write like Tolstoy
  • Adrian Tinniswood: Noble Ambitions
  • Adrian Tinniswood: The Power and the Glory
  • Martin Williams: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
  • Gavin Plumley: A Home for all Seasons
  • Robert Harris: Precipice
  • Nigel Slater: A Thousand Feasts
  • Joan Aiken: Tales of London Town
  • Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain
  • Ben Robinson: English Villages: An Extraordinary Journey through Time

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Dark Puss

This cat hates getting his fur wet as you know well. One of the books in which torrential rain plays a key role that comes to my mind (and good for adults as well as children in my opinion) is Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson.

Dark Puss

I see that I am probably the antithesis of all the virtues extolled in your poem. Thus you are generous indeed to count me amongst your friends. Both heaven and hell are giving me a bit of a hard time at the moment; lucky I'm an atheist!

Lindsay

See this! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8155883.stm

Dark Puss

Thank you!

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