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Postby waggawerewolf27 » May 23, 2018 12:34 am

Ursula K Le Guin

Convicts unbound: the story of the Calcutta Convicts and their settlement in Australia. (1988)
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Re: Name That Author

Postby Meltintalle » May 27, 2018 2:12 pm

Marjorie Tipping

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Re: Name That Author

Postby waggawerewolf27 » May 27, 2018 3:24 pm

Jason Fagone

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Postby ValiantArcher » May 30, 2018 6:33 pm

Kate Moore

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Postby waggawerewolf27 » May 30, 2018 8:51 pm

Elizabeth Cobbs

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Re: Name That Author

Postby ValiantArcher » Jun 20, 2018 5:54 pm

John Burke?

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Postby waggawerewolf27 » Jun 21, 2018 3:41 am

Elizabeth M Norman

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Valiant Archer wrote:John Burke?


Well, John Burke might have had a lot to do with helping with the 1965 film on which Those magnificent men in their flying machines was based, but Ronald Searle has been given credit not only by Amazon, but other sources like the Book Depository was the actual author in May, 1965. Ronald Searle, who also wrote the wildly hedonistic St Trinian's series which delighted my teenage days, was an English prisoner of war after the fall of Singapore who survived horrors at Changi and on the Burma-Thailand railway by recording what was happening, despite malaria and worse horrors, and who died in 2011.
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Postby ValiantArcher » Jun 21, 2018 4:27 am

Ronald Searle was only coming up in relation to the movie in my searches, which itself inundated the results, wagga.

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Postby waggawerewolf27 » Jun 22, 2018 1:04 am

Hilda Faunce and Frank Waters

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Ronald Searle was only coming up in relation to the movie in my searches, which itself inundated the results, wagga.


I know, and Wikipedia doesn't mention anywhere that Ronald Searle was the author of a book of that name so you are quite right to nominate John Burke as a possibility. But I already remembered there most definitely was a book, having handled a landscape format copy of it years ago at work, and specified "book" in all my searches to remember when that title was published, which I thought I should include here. It was done like a children's Easy book, all cartoon-like drawings, in Ronald Searle's unique and distinctive style, to accompany his story, recounted with minimal romance in the finish, in contrast to the movie. Now it is out of print. The film was based on a play entitled Flying Crazy, according to Wikipedia.
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Re: Name That Author

Postby ValiantArcher » Jun 23, 2018 2:21 pm

Norman Lindsay

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wagga, I specified "book" in my searches too, but obviously didn't find the book you were referencing. ;)) It sounds like a good one!
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Re: Name That Author

Postby ValiantArcher » Jun 28, 2018 7:21 pm

(Nice, wagga.)

Alistair MacLean

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Postby waggawerewolf27 » Jun 29, 2018 2:54 am

Gloria Whelan

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Postby Meltintalle » Jun 29, 2018 6:43 am

Bret Witter and Vicki Myron

(Good choice! This is such a sweet story :) )

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Re: Name That Author

Postby waggawerewolf27 » Jun 30, 2018 5:17 pm

D.J. Edwardson

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Meltintalle wrote:(Good choice! This is such a sweet story :) )


How could I resist Dewey Readmore Books? B-) :ymhug:
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Re: Name That Author

Postby ValiantArcher » Jul 12, 2018 6:03 pm

Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.

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