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I think it sounds interesting, but I'm not sure how it'd work. We all have time constraints and so on, and I think you'd need someone with top organisational skills to make it work.

Dan Brown writes for your local newspaper?:confused:

Ah, London, the best city in the world! For accommodation and advice on what to do and where to go try: http://www.londontown.com/ http://www.visitlondon.com/ I think they both offer an online booking service to make things easier. Personal recommendation: if it's your first trip to...

I've not even read the Da Vinci Code to know it's full of factual errors and terribly badly researched. To think this Digital Fortress could be worse is actually quite distressing.

I enjoyed The Magic Cottage very much. And Haunted, although the follow-up, The Ghosts of Sleath, was quite rubbish.

I loved 1984, as well as its near contemporary Brave New World. Orwell is a fantastic writer. I'm currently reading a collection of his essays. If you get the chance, definitely read them. Much of Orwell's writing is informed by the horror of war - first the Spanish Civil War then, of course...

You take the third letter of every word to spell out TRUTH behind Stewart's promotion...

I think it's worth the struggle. I'm not sure I could read it again, but in places the prose is truly beautiful and the humour is wonderful.

Bejam?:confused:

Wow, so more people get pissed off with stupid drivers than have schizophrenia. I never would have guessed that...:rolleyes:

Spoilers follow! I read this a while back and loved it. The way it crosses generations, decades and countries is amazing. The level of detail quite astonishing. It's austensibly the memoir of Calliope, but is really so much more. A tragi-comic love story across the years. One...

The book and thread are quite old so I'm going to risk not using spoiler tags! But just in case the following will contain spoilers, great big ruin-the-whole-book spoilers! Firstly I think Lionel Shriver has done a very brave and intriguing thing with this book. Teenage killers are a...

Give up waiting and listen to Velvet Revolver instead!

Apostrophes Placement of the apostrophe denotes whether singular or plural. If the noun is singular, it's always 's. One Silas, one cat: Silas's cat Silas's cat's claw If the noun is plural it's s': The Joneses' cat. The exception (and isn't there always an exception in the English...

I think there are about six and the first was Sleepyhead. More info here: http://www.markbillingham.com/ Apparently he's from Birmingham, with his knowledge of London I was sure he was a Londoner born and bred.

I liked this one. It took the rather unusual step of revealing the killers' identities from the outset but still managed to be suspenseful and have some twisty turny bits. I think I'd advise to read the books in order though. It's not completely necessary for the story but the books all centre...

I've got an oriental dragon tattooed on my right shoulder blade. I didn't find it too painful and I really want another one. A strawberry on my hipbone would be good.

Yes and yes! I've read three of his books and have every intention of reading them all. And I've never been into crime fiction so he must be doing something right! Although the characters are a little cliched, the stories are good with some rather grusome crimes. They're also well...

I read this a while ago. At first I found it a real struggle. It was very slow and rather cumbersome, and most of the characters were very unsympathetic, especially the two leads. Norrell was particularly odious at times. However on finishing it, I found I'd completely changed my mind. In my...

Famous in the UK as the man sacked for running faked pictures of UK troops torturing Iraqi civillian (only for it to turn out that they did), Morgan has been editor of two best-selling tabloid papers (before he was 30). This is a bit of a page-turner. It's written in the form of a diary so...