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A whole heap of wrong things here

A massive stack of wrongness in this guide to London from www.latimes.com (via darryl1974 and bagelmouseuk) but it's an entertaining read and makes me think gor blimey mary poppins, when will we get up to London next? Obviously will spend less time i...

Folkestone Library / Amazon plugin

See here, find out if a book is available in your local library each time you visit the page on Amazon - brilliant!It's a bit techie to use at the moment, you have to Use Firefox as your web browser, install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/a...

Who started this book at �450???

Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales, from 1930, illustrated by Harry Clarke but still! I have one of these, did they mean �4.50? Maybe that's why the auction was ended, with no bids....

I fought the law, and the post office won

Damn, tried to beat the system this week, and failed. We went to see David Starkey last night, presenting his new book Henry: Virtuous Prince, part one of his biography. Very interesting, and makes a change to sitting in front of the telly, sort of. ...

Susie Dent's coming to Folkestone

Susie Dent of Countdown's "Dictionary Corner" is coming to Folkestone as part of Folkestone Literary Festival 2008. At least I hope it's the same Susie Dent. We watch Countdown every day on 40D, so this will be nice.She has a regular publication call...

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 more Terry Pratchett, someone's selling an ex-library copy of The Light Fantastic for �500, that's what I've got. Nice to have an origina...

Terry Pratchett's Nation limited edition.

I've got one of these a Nation special edition, I think. Dad queued from early this morning to secure one of these, and got it signed, good work!Had a great day in London where we also saw Terry Pratchett, he helicoptered between Hayling Island (wher...

Popbitch book is on the way.

You can preorder it now

The plot of a Christopher Brookmyre book

OK so this story doesn't have a plot that we know of so far, but each bit of information that's eeked out of nowhere by the press leads the imagination in different directions, like a good book. Of course, this is not a book, these are people's lives...

Folkestone Triennial: Tales of Time and Space

Are you ready for the Folkestone Triennial? There's a launch event down at the harbour on Saturday 14th, at the Ark Cafe... what is that then? Did it not burn down? I will have to investigate (where it is, and what is there now, not the actual myster...

Good to know

Now to pimp some Harry Clarke original artwork or something, get my commission up. What do you recommend, what is hot at ABE Books these days?Thanks for keep coming back here btw, I've not had this level of service from an affilliate manager before, ...

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

The AbeBooks.co.uk program is staying with Commission Junction for the time being, so you're good to stay there.

Cheers,

Patrick Armstrong
Affiliate Manager
AbeBooks.com

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

So, am I safe to stay where I am?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

I don't know about the "low price" bit, but it's easy to get one from ABE Books, it'll cost up to one hundred pounds, though there's one here for less. I didn't yet buy one, even though I said two years ago that I definitely would. I'm still looking ...

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

I bought a 1931 copy of Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales 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, BUT, all o...

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...

Harry Clarke / Fairy Tales

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

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 www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk/:We have carefully put together nine days of eclectic and exciting world-class authors and performers to entertain you. Th...

Good second hand bookshop in Folkestone

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

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...

Folkestone and its neighbourhood by S. J. Mackie

One resource that seems invaluable in Folkestone history terms would seem to be A Descriptive and Historical Account of Folkestone and Its Neighbourhood, with Gleanings from the Municipal Records, quite a mouth full, usually referred to as just Macki...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

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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...
Rated 5.06/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Taylor Made

Mick Taylor, sometime Rolling Stone...

Rated 4.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

The Moody Blues

Rated 4.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald