Name That Author
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Ursula K Le Guin
Convicts unbound: the story of the Calcutta Convicts and their settlement in Australia. (1988)
Convicts unbound: the story of the Calcutta Convicts and their settlement in Australia. (1988)
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Marjorie Tipping
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies (2017)
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies (2017)
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Jason Fagone
The Radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women
The Radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women
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Kate Moore
The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers
The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers
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Elizabeth Cobbs
Those magnificent men in their flying machines (1965)
Those magnificent men in their flying machines (1965)
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John Burke?
We Band of Angels
We Band of Angels
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Elizabeth M Norman
The naked island
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.
The naked island
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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Ronald Searle was only coming up in relation to the movie in my searches, which itself inundated the results, wagga.
Russell Brandon
Desert Wife
Russell Brandon
Desert Wife
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Hilda Faunce and Frank Waters
The magic pudding
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.
The magic pudding
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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Norman Lindsay
The Problem of Pain
wagga, I specified "book" in my searches too, but obviously didn't find the book you were referencing. It sounds like a good one!
The Problem of Pain
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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(Nice, wagga.)
Alistair MacLean
Angel on the Square
Alistair MacLean
Angel on the Square
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Gloria Whelan
Dewey, the Library Cat
Dewey, the Library Cat
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Bret Witter and Vicki Myron
(Good choice! This is such a sweet story )
The Last Motley
(Good choice! This is such a sweet story )
The Last Motley
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D.J. Edwardson
Zero hour (the NUMA files)
How could I resist Dewey Readmore Books?
Zero hour (the NUMA files)
Meltintalle wrote:(Good choice! This is such a sweet story )
How could I resist Dewey Readmore Books?
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.
The Picts and the Martyrs, or Not Welcome at All
The Picts and the Martyrs, or Not Welcome at All
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