(When one of the hostages in Lebanon, maybe Brian Keenan or Terry Waite, was being held, their captors brought them books, but they weren't very good ones - so they drew a symbol of a penguin and said 'See if you can bring me one with this on' - knowing it would be a guarantee of quality.)
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Book Covers & Book Titles are often like Coffee.......they smell much better than they taste.......!
There's a nice story of one of the hostages - can't remember which one - after a gazillion years of silence, being given a postcard that someone had randomly sent in the hope it'd reach them, and it did. It was a highlight, as you can well imagine. And now I feel like having a little cry.
Hi Tony - you're so right - sometimes I think the hardest thing about writing must be coming up with a good title.
BiB - awwww. A good advert for the postal service, like this is a good advert for Penguin...
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