I first heard about BookCrossing on Radio 4. I have also lost books in public places (so if you picked up
The Hunt for Red October in Italy, it's mine) and found them (so if you left
Catch 22 under a bench at Harrow on the Hill and want it back, let me know!) but the idea of doing it deliberately really appeals. Who knows where these old, well-thumbed friends may turn up? And wouldn't it be great if one day, perhaps when you are
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The Holy Bible by Various Authors Peace of Heart in All Things by Br Roger of Taize
The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon
John Clare (poems) selected and edited by R.K.R. Thornton
The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker A Time to Heal (Church of England Report)
In Our Time by Melvyn Bragg
Piers the Ploughman by William Langland The Cruellest Miles by Gay and Laney Salisbury
I'm looking out for these books:
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Ainsworth, D: Adventures of Dick Turpin, The Bacon, Charlotte : Lost Geography
Bowen, Jeremy: Six Days
Boyle, David: Blondel's Song Boyle, Mark: The Moneyless Man - A Year of Freeconomic Living
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
Brown, Dale: Wild Alaska Brown, Malcolm: Lawrence of Arabia
Bryson, Bill: Notes from a Big Country
Buchan, John: Power House Buchan, John: Sick Heart River
Byron, Robert: Road to Oxiana
Byron, Robert: The Station Cameron, James: Point of Departure
Campbell, Joseph: The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Chisholm, PF: A Plague of Angels Chisholm, PF: A Surfiet of Guns
Clive Anderson, Natalia Makarova, Rian Malan, Michael Palin: Great Railway Journeys
Collingridge, Vanessa: Boudica
Collingridge, Vanessa: Captain Cook - A Legacy Under Fire
Courtenay Grimwood, Jon: Pashazade De Botton, Alain : Consolations de la philosophie, Les (French)
De Botton, Alain: Consolations of Philosophy, The
Dionysius the Areopagite: Letters Druon, Maurice : La Loides Males
Druon, Maurice : Les Poisons de la Couronne
Dryden, W (ed): Individual Therapy - A handbook Eco, Umberto: Island of the Day Before, The
Everett, Daniel: Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Fenby, Jonathan: The General - Charles de Gaulle and the France he Saved
Fiennes, Ranulph : Atlantis of the Sands Fiennes, Ranulph: Captain Scott
Fiennes, Ranulph: Feather Men, The
Fiennes, Ranulph: Living Dangerously Fiennes, Ranulph: Secret Hunters, The
Fiennes, Ranulph: To the Ends of the Earth
Finney, Patricia: Crow Goddess, The Finney, Patricia: Firedrake's Eye
Finney, Patricia: Gloriana's Touch
Finney, Patricia: Shadow of Gulls, A Finney, Patricia: Unicorn's Blood
Fisher, Jude: Sorcery Rising
Fitzgerald, Penelope: Offshore Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Blue Flower
Foley, Michael: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy
Gascoigne, Bamber: Quest for the Golden Hare, The
Gayford, Martin: Yellow House, The Gee, Sophie: Scandal of the Season, The
Glover, Fi : Travels with My Radio
Golding, Julia: The Ship Between the Worlds Gordimer, Nadine: July's People
Green, Toby: Saddled with Darwin
Hemmingway, Ernest: After the Storm Hemmingway, Ernest: Snows of Kilimanjaro
Heyerdahl, Thor: ANY Hill, Tobias: Wayland Smith
Hollingshurst, Alan : The Folding Star
Irwin, Margaret: Royal Flush Jeck, Michael : Templar's Penance, The
Jenkins, Simon : Short History of England, A
Kalder, Daniel : Lost Cosmonaut Kelman, James: How Late It Was, How Late
Lambert, Malcolm: Christians and Pagans
Lansing, Alfred: Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Le Carre, John: Smiley's People Le Carre, John: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
LeCarre, John: A Murder of Quality
LeGuin, Ursula: A Wizard of Earthsea Lessing, Doris: The Sirian Experiments
London, Jack Seven Great Stories
London, Jack: Selected Short Stories Mabey, Richard: Weeds
Mackworth, Cecily : I Came Out of France
Mahoney, Rosemary: The Singular Pilgrim - Travels on Sacred Ground
Marsden, Philip: The Crossing Place May, Gerald: Care of Mind Care of Spirit
McCabe, Patrick: Breakfast on Pluto
McCandless, David: Information is beautiful McCarthy, Cormac: Blood Meridian
McCarthy, Cormac: The Road
McGoogan, Ken: Ancient Mariner McKillip, Patricia A: ANY
Mearns and Thorne: Person-Centred Counselling in Action
Moore, Thomas: Dark Night of the Soul
Morris, Jan: Spain (non-fiction) Naipaul, VS: In a Free State
Naipaul, VS: A Bend in the River, A
Orr, Emma Restall: Druidry Paulson, Gary: Dogsong
Paulson, Gary: Guts Paulson, Gary: Island, The
Paulson, Gary: The Transall Saga
Paulson, Gary: Winterdance Petite, Philippe: To Reach the Clouds - My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers
Phillips, Roger: Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe
Pilkington, John: An Adventure on the Old Silk Road
Pilkington, John: Into Thin Air Rance, Patrick: The French Cheese Book
Remnick, David (Ed): Life Stories - Profiles from the New Yorker [ABRIDGED]
Rodgers, Katharine: Breaking Through - Edward F Ricketts (2006)
Rohr, Richard: The Naked Now/option>
Rushdie, Salman: Grimus Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's Children
Rushdie, Salman: Shame Seymour, John: Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency
Shaffer, Earl V: Walking with Spring
Sharpe, James: Dick Turpin - The Myth of the English Highwayman
Smith, Zadie: The Book of Other People (Short Stories)
Steinbeck, John: The Log from the Sea of Cortez Stevenson, Robert Louis: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Stewart, Mary: Prince and the Pilgrim, The
Sturluson, Snorri: King Harald's Saga Thesiger, Wilfred: Arabian Sands
Toksvig, Sandi : Island Race - Improbable Voyage Round the Coast of Britain
Toksvig, Sandi: Flying Under Bridges
Toksvig, Sandi: Great Journeys of the World Tolkein, JRR: Children of Hurin, The
Tom Steinstra, Robyn Schlueter: Rocky Mountain Camping - The Complete Guide
Trower, Casey and Dryden: Cognitive-behaviour therapy in action
Truong, Monique: Book of Salt - A Novel, The
Verne, Jules : LESSER KNOWN TITLES
Verne, Jules : Master of the World, The Verne, Jules : Mysterious Island, The
Verne, Jules and Howard, Richard: Paris in the Twentieth Century
Verne, Jules : Cinq Semaines en Ballon (French)
Verne, Jules : Five Weeks in a Balloon
Verne, Jules: Around the Moon Voisin, Andre, Rational Grazing
Waugh, Evelyn: Decline and Fall
Wigfall, Clare: The Loudest Sound and Nothing (Short Stories)
Wood, Daniel : Wolves
Also a burst of applause please for
NetStation , who has devised a way of locating any Official BookCrossing Zone (OBCZ):
Click here
To date I have caught these books:
03 Feb 2007
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
25 Jul 2007
Ark Angel
An Introduction to Aikido
Encounters with Qi
06 Aug 2007
Being Peace
31 Dec 2008
The End of Mr. Y
10 Nov 2009
With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed
The Honourable Schoolboy
11 Dec 2009
Harm Done
29 Oct 2010
Belgravia
Saddlebottom
12 Feb 2011
The wheels on the Bus
Look out for the Big Bad Fish
All my other "catches" are books that have been given to me, that were released by someone I know in my presence, or that I have picked up at an UnConvention.
Here are all my Wild Releases in the order in which I released them:
2005
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13 May Who Moved My Cheese? 18 May Sophie's World
18 May School for Prayer
10 Jun Sea Wolf 11 Jul Minerva Book of Short Stories
16 Sep Asimov's Mysteries
19 Sep The Kite Runner 24 Sep To Play The King
24 Sep The Flier
24 Sep Authorised Murder 24 Sep The Skull Beneath The Skin
13 Oct Gallows Thief
25 Nov From Russia With Love 02 Dec Clutch of Constables
02 Dec Innocent Blood
02 Dec Under The Eagle
2006
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12 Jan The Valkyries 20 Jan Tibetan Foothold
06 May Brick Lane
20 May Angela's Ashes 21 May Private Eye's Colemanballs
02 Jun The Perfect Storm
03 Jun Ten Italian Folktales
01 Jul Private Eye's Colemanballs 05 Aug The Charioteer
18 Aug Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
18 Aug No Comebacks 18 Aug Stark
18 Aug Brother to Dragons
19 Aug At The Mountains of Madness 01 Sep The Portrait
01 Sep Animal Farm
08 Sep A Tale of Two Cities 08 Sep Perfume
08 Sep Castaway
08 Sep The Lovely Bones 08 Sep It's Not About The Bike
12 Sep Dressed to Kill
01 Oct Good News Bible
26 Oct The Insect Man 26 Oct The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
26 Oct Notes From A Small Island
26 Oct Animal Farm 26 Oct Into the Crocdile's Nest
31 Oct Touching the Void
31 Oct So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
01 Nov Snoopy Stars As The World Famous Literary Ace
01 Nov Life of Pi
01 Nov The Iron King 03 Nov The Last Enchantment
03 Nov A Day In Summer
03 Nov View From A Bouncy Castle 03 Nov Act of Betrayal
03 Nov A Song of Stone
03 Nov The Bridge 03 Nov Complicity
03 Nov Espedair Street 03 Nov Walking on Glass
03 Nov Uncle Tom's Cabin
03 Nov Searching Issues 03 Nov Of Mice and men, Cannery Row
03 Nov Neither Here Nor There
03 Nov Catch-22 03 Nov The Great Gatsby
12 Nov Faith Odyssey 12 Nov Understanding Jesus
12 Nov Understanding the Trinity
12 Nov Angels 12 Nov Complete Storykeepers Collection
12 Nov Paradise Lost
12 Nov Questions of Life 12 Nov The Riddle Master of Hed
12 Nov The DaVinci Code
12 Nov Odo's Hanging 18 Nov The Gallows Murders
25 Nov The Illustrated Man
25 Nov The Words of Martin Luther King 25 Nov Sorcerer's Stone
25 Nov Disciple
25 Nov Celebration of Discipline 25 Nov The Great Acquittal
25 Nov Life Together
02 Dec And If It's True? 02 Dec Whit
02 Dec The Three Musketeers 02 Dec The Silver Locusts
04 Dec Death In The City
04 Dec Why Y2K?
04 Dec Lost Icons 04 Dec The Prophet Motive
04 Dec Praying in the Spirit
09 Dec Around the World in Eighty Days 09 Dec If I Were God for a Day
09 Dec The Big Sleep
09 Dec The Lovely Bones 15 Dec Jesus 2000
16 Dec The Moonstone
16 Dec 21 Great Stories
16 Dec Baudolino 16 Dec A Spy for the Redeemer
16 Dec The Last of the Mohicans
16 Dec An Instance of the Fingerpost 16 Dec Julius Caesar
16 Dec MacBeth
16 Dec I Heard The Owl Call My Name 16 Dec It must be true - I read it in the Tabloids
16 Dec French Revolutions
16 Dec The Ultimate Pub Quiz Book 16 Dec Utilitarianism
16 Dec Journey to Cubeville
28 Dec Death of a Stranger
2007
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08 Jan The Jacaranda Tree 09 Jan The Shifting Tide
09 Jan The Transit of Venus
09 Jan The Great Fire 09 Jan The Four Beauties
09 Jan The Purple Plain
09 Jan Seven By Five 09 Jan Love for Lydia
09 Jan A Recipe for Bees
01 Feb New Testament and Psalms 01 Feb Pocket Oxford Dictionary
01 Feb The Wild Cherry Tree
09 Feb The Ipcress File 09 Feb Fatherland
09 Feb The Silmarillion
09 Feb John Wesley 24 Feb Gospels in Modern English
24 Feb The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
24 Feb Cover Her Face
24 Feb The Horse Whisperer
03 Mar I, Claudius 16 Mar Bible Stories for Classroom and Assembly
16 Mar HMS Surprise
24 Mar Hard Target 24 Mar Vendetta
24 Mar Concentric Circles 24 Mar Look, Clare, Look!
24 Mar The Silence Living in Houses
02 Apr The World's Stupidest Signs 06 Apr Merlin of the Crystal Cave
09 Apr The Famous Five and the Blue Bear Mystery
13 Apr The Black Arrow
13 Apr Some Said It Thundered 13 Apr Five Go To Billycock Hill
13 Apr The Castle of Adventure
13 Apr The Inimitable Jeeves 17 Apr Master and Commander
17 Apr When Darkness Comes
22 Apr The Famous Five and the Mystery of the Emeralds
22 Apr The Secret Mountain 22 Apr Five Are Together Again
26 Apr Five Have A Mystery To Solve
26 Apr Five Go To Demon's Rocks 26 Apr Five on Kirrin Island Again
26 Apr The Famous Five and the Stately Homes Gang
26 Apr The Golden Keel
26 Apr Secret Seven Fireworks 26 Apr Secret Seven Win Through
26 Apr Good Old Secret Seven
26 Apr Circus of Adventure 26 Apr Island of Adventure
26 Apr Valley of Adventure
26 Apr The Acid House 28 Apr The Golden Keel
12 May Live and Let Die
26 May Animal Farm 26 May Benito Mussolini
26 May Norman Birkett
26 May Animals, Birds and Plants of the Bible
26 May Bridget Jones's Diary 26 May The Dogs of War
26 May Photo Finish
26 May The Cat-Hater's Handbook 26 May Bruno's Dream
26 May Microwave Vegetarian Cooking
26 May Jesus Christ (Luke) 26 May Jesus Christ (John)
02 Jun Alistair MacLean's Death Train
02 Jun The Mauritius Command 01 Jul Knights and Castles
01 Jul Antrax
01 Jul Of Mice And Men 01 Jul The Ondine
22 Jul The Regency 22 Jul Even Naughtier Stories
22 Jul Death Is Now My Neighbour
22 Jul Road Rage 24 Jul Wide Sargasso Sea
26 Jul A Small Town In Germany
26 Jul The Name of the Rose 26 Jul Bridget Jones's Diary
30 Jul Full Tilt
30 Jul The Huge Joke Book 30 Jul Credo
02 Aug Madame de Pompadour 09 Aug The Victory Book
18 Aug Private Eye's Colemanballs No. 7
23 Aug Love on Call 01 Sep The Eye of the World
01 Sep The Great Hunt
01 Sep The Dragon Reborn 01 Sep Winter's Heart
05 Oct Touching the Void
05 Oct New Testament and Psalms (15 copies)
05 Oct Trafalgar 05 Oct The Perfect Storm
05 Oct Band of Brothers
05 Oct Simpson's Comics A Go Go 24 Nov No Comebacks
24 Nov The Raven in the Foregate
08 Dec Heart of Darkness 14 Dec The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
14 Dec The Dogs of War
14 Dec The Odessa File 14 Dec The Devil's Advocate
14 Dec Doctor in the House and at Sea
17 Dec The Firm
2008
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08 Feb Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 08 Feb The Will and the Deed
08 Feb The Wench is Dead 23 Feb The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
23 Feb The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
23 Feb A Wicked Deed 23 Feb Kidnapped
25 Feb It Shouldn't Happen To A Vet 13 Mar The Razor's Edge
13 Mar The Negotiator 13 Mar A Famine of Horses
29 Mar The Tailor of Panama 07 Apr Bible Stories for Today: The Old Testament
07 Apr Roverandom 07 Apr Mr Midshipman Hornblower
18 Apr The Deceiver 19 Jun Seven Years in Tibet
11 Jul Sahara 11 Jul The Sunday Philosophy Club
12 Jul The Name of the Rose 12 Jul Bring on the Empty Horses
16 Aug Venture to the Interior
23 Aug On the Edge of the Primeval Forest 24 Aug Shockwave
24 Aug Bear's Tears 24 Aug The Day of the Jackal
24 Aug Labyrinth 24 Aug A Time of Gifts
24 Aug The Victory Book 24 Aug Slipping Into Shadow
24 Aug Fry and Laurie Bit No.4
25 Aug Earthsong 25 Aug Storytime
25 Aug Who Profits? 25 Aug Catch-22
25 Aug The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay 25 Aug A Poem for Buddy
03 Sep The Queen's Man 03 Sep The Secret Agent
09 Oct Holy Bible: Authorized Version
12 Oct The English: A Portrait of a People 17 Oct In Siberia
19 Oct Sharpe's Tiger (16th in series)
23 Oct Dead Famous 19 Oct Children of the New Forest
26 Nov Dead Famous 05 Dec Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story
05 Dec Undertow 05 Dec A Trust Betrayed
05 Dec A Falcon Flies
2009
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23 Jan His Last Bow 23 Jan One and Two Halves to K2
23 Jan An Expensive Place to Die 13 Mar Stonehenge and Neighbouring Monuments
13 Mar The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
13 Mar The Kon-Tiki Expedition 13 Mar Wouldn't You Like to Know
14 Mar Backwards 27 Mar Bored of the Rings
27 Mar Environmental Chemistry
27 Mar Kidnapped 27 Mar Julia 27 Mar Wise Traveller: Loss
27 Mar The Wedding Day 27 Mar Animal Saga
21 Jun Richard Bolitho, Midshipman
21 Jun The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency 21 Jun The Riddle of the Sands
21 Jun Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
21 Jun What a Carve Up! 21 Jun Crime and Punishment
21 Jun The Forgotten Beasts of Eld 21 Jun Generation X
21 Jun High Society 21 Jun A Passage to India
21 Jun The Lily and the Lion 18 Jul Alexander: Child of a Dream
18 Jul The Fox and the Faith 01 Aug Touching the Moon
01 Aug De Silmarillion (Dutch)
15 Oct Call for the Dead 15 Oct Success to the Brave/Cross of St George (2 copies)
15 Oct To Glory We Steer 15 Oct Stand into Danger
17 Oct Signal - Close Action!
17 Oct For My Country's Freedom 17 Oct The Ionian Mission
17 Oct Dead Famous 17 Oct Garden Lovers' Quotations
10 Nov Sharpe's Triumph 10 Nov Sharpe's Battle
10 Nov Heretic 11 Nov The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
11 Nov Cup of Gold 09 Dec A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
09 Dec Master and Commander 09 Dec Pride and Prejudice
09 Dec Three Men in a Boat 09 Dec Winnie Ille Pu
10 Dec Five Go Off in a Caravan
10 Dec Master and Commander 10 Dec Ramage and the Drum Beat
10 Dec Dissolution 10 Dec Call for the Dead
10 Dec Kydd
2010
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05 Mar Sharpe's Rifles
07 May Dulcima
07 May The Man in the Iron Mask
07 May Vagabond
27 May Great Interviews of the 20th Century: Adolf Hitler (10th of 14)
27 May The Man in the Iron Mask
27 May The Man Who Married a Mountain
27 May The Path of the King
27 May Corsica
17 Jul Ice! 05 Aug Artemis
18 Sep The Beach
23 Sep The Alchemist
24 Sep Mutiny
29 Oct Captain Alatriste
29 Oct Pole to Pole
2011
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03 Jan Kriss Akabusi On Track 18 Feb Black Robe
18 Feb Ramage and the Rebels
04 Mar The Lovely Bones 02 May Birds of Prey
28 Jun One for the Morning Glory 12 Aug It's Not What You Think
27 Aug Of Mice and Men 27 Aug Come Together
27 Aug Handbook of Palliative Medicine
27 Aug Purity of Blood 27 Aug The Sun Over Breda
27 Aug Love Lives 27 Aug The Little Book of Wellbeing
27 Aug Bear Hugs 28 Aug Break Through (John's Gospel)
28 Aug And the Band Played On 28 Aug Tortilla Flat
28 Aug Getting into Medical School 28 Aug New World (Bible extracts)
28 Aug Insights from Job 28 Aug Flatland
28 Aug Identity (Mark's Gospel)
29 Aug Sons and Lovers 29 Aug I Kissed Dating Goodbye
29 Aug Gregory Peck 29 Aug The British Museum is Falling Down
29 Aug A Wizard of Earthsea 29 Aug The Tombs of Atuan
29 Aug The Farthest Shore 10 Sep 1066 and All That
10 Sep The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
10 Sep Tears of the Giraffe 19 Oct Robbery Under Arms
20 Oct The Living Planet 22 Oct The Prisoner of Zenda
23 Oct Tales of Ten Worlds 23 Oct Walkabout
23 Oct Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine 23 Oct Ecology
23 Oct Biology: A Functional Approach
02 Nov So Disdained 19 Nov Cannery Row
26 Nov The Left Hand of Darkness
2012
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08 Jan Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 28 Feb The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
07 Mar A Star to Steer Her By
07 Mar The Farm 15 Apr Birdsong (Audiobook)
15 Apr Bake 15 Apr The Tinner's Corpse
17 Apr A Plague on Both Your Houses 19 Apr Mountains of the Mind
11 May Muffins Fast and Fantastic
11 May The Ragamuffin Gospel 11 May Actions Speak Louder
11 May Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry Part II
One thing I have learned since doing this is that I really want my books to travel. It's great to see some that I have released turning up in different countries. So far, of all my wild releases, the following have been caught:
2006
The Valkyries
Private Eye's Colemanballs (triple jumper: Leeds, Birmingham, South Shields, Norway)
At The Mountains of Madness
Dressed to Kill (double jumper)
Touching the Void
Snoopy Stars As The World Famous Literary Ace
Odo's Hanging
Death In The City
The Moonstone
2007
I, Claudius
French Revolutions
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (double jumper)
Ultimate Pub Quiz Book
Five Are Together Again
Farmer Giles of Ham & The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
The Acid House
The Golden Keel
Utilitarianism
The Famous Five and the Blue Bear Mystery
Antrax
Master and Commander
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
The Valley of Adventure
The Eye of the World
Love for Lydia
2008
Private Eye's Colemanballs No.7
Doctor in the House and at Sea
The Wench is Dead
Heart of Darkness
The Island of Adventure (gone to BC Graveyard)
Five on Kirrin Island Again (gone to BC Graveyard)
The Deceiver
Good Old Secret Seven
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Seven Years in Tibet
Circus of Adventure
In Siberia
2009
A Falcon Flies
The Black Arrow
Sharpe's Tiger
The Sunday Philosophy Club
Sahara
Generation X
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (caught and then released from the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of Antony Gormley's One and Other project)
The Riddle of the Sands (caught and then released from the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of Antony Gormley's One and Other project)
New Testament and Psalms
Stonehenge and Neighbouring Monuments
Master and Commander (1st in Series)
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
2010
Enemy in Sight
Cup of Gold
Undertow
2011
Gallows Thief
The Sun Over Breda
The Moonstone
Pole to Pole
It's not what you think
Lake Woebegone Days
De Silmarillion (Dutch)
2012
Cannery Row
And these have travelled to other countries:
Australia
The Glass-Blowers
Austria
Pole to Pole
Canada
Stonehenge and Neighbouring Monuments
Denmark
Foundation ,
Foundation and Empire and
Second Foundation (all three sent by me on request)
France
Dr Zhivago
Hungary
In Siberia
Malaysia
Now Here's A Funny Thing and
Holy Bible (Authorised Version)
Norway
Colemanballs
Portugal, Spain and Belgium
Heart of Darkness
Spain (Canary Islands)
Gallows Thief
USA
A Moveable Feast
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20 Oct 2005 Driving Over Lemons
29 Aug 2006 Maigret et la Grande Perche
16 Feb 2007 Enigma
16 Feb 2007 The Beach
12 May 2007 The Little World of Don Camillo
13 Mar 2008 The Razor's Edge
24 Mar 2008 Foundation
24 Mar 2008 Foundation and Empire
24 Mar 2008 Second Foundation
11 Aug 2008 The Kindness of Strangers
06 Sep 2008 The Stories of John Cheever
19 Oct 2008 Why the Whales Came
12 Jan 2009 Saturday
12 Jan 2009 The Kalahari Typing School for Men
21 Jun 2009 The Wedding Party
19 Jul 2009 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
14 Nov 2009 The Siege of Krishnapur
16 Jan 2010 A Hero of Our Time 29 Apr 2010 Expendable
24 May 2010 The Courts of the Morning 07 Jun 2010 The Moonstone
17 Jul 2010 Tortilla Flat 18 Aug 2010 Flatland
18 Sep 2010 Fatherland 13 Aug 2011 Clear Waters Rising
I've been really pleased to see that people have joined BookCrossing as a result of finding books I have left. These include
Killer-Kate
KatStep atrihospithikos
Cymroydwi
blutac600 rococo
Brittle-Bones shepus
am-mayers
Jnan ElkeVR
individualist coastwalker1
MikeMJ
Nariluggald grijrholmes
fisky
Sue-Innes MadMcKs
robcottee
Peterworldwide timcorby and
CQ2S
and the following are people who have joined BookCrossing through finding one of my books:
supacurt (
book wild released by me and passed on by
Killer-Kate )
Falcon100 (
book wild released by me; found and released by
KatStep )
possumpal (
book released by me at the 2008 UnConvention and released into the wild by
daemonwolf )
Perikleous (
book passed by me to
Mytilus and left at
Polmary 's restaurant in Cornwall)
helenbyrne (
book released by me at the 2007 UnConvention, taken on a release walk by
candy-is-dandy and left outside helenbyrne's shop)
Furzy (
book passed to
Mytilus at a meeting in Plymouth, who wild released it in Polperro)
The following are people who joined BookCrossing because I told them about it:
ponapon
CrazyRunner
pageturner2006
What follows is an attempt to get control of the TBR pile. If you see something here you are after let me know and I'll make sure I read it next and get it to you if and when I can. Same story if you gave me something ages ago and are getting cheesed off that
it is making such slow progress. Just drop me an e-line and I'll do my best to get on with it.
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A Brief History of Time A Burnt-Out Case
A Farewell to Arms A Fine Balance
A Good Pair of Legs A Passage to India
A Perfect Spy A Portrait of Lord Nelson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Prayer for the Dying
A Star to Steer Her By
A Tale of Two Cities A Thief in the Night
Absolute Altitude
African Diary African Discovery
Age of Innocence Aliens
All The President's Men American Short Stories of Today
An Evil Cradling
An Expensive Place To Die Anapurna
Archangel Around the World In Eighty Days
Artemis
Arthur and George Beowulf
Best American Short Stories 1995 Beyond the Limits
Bhowani Junction
Birdsong Blood Brothers
Breakfast at Tiffany's Bring on the Empty Horses
Caravan to Vaccarès
Castaway Castle Gay
Chaos or Community? Chasing the Wild Goose
Chocolat
Cider with Rosie Confessions of A Sinner
Conquests and Reconquests of Menorca Cooking with Fernet Branca
Cooper's Creek
Cover Her Face Clear Waters Rising
Crime and Punishment Cutting Your Car Use
Disclosure
Doctor Zhivago Don Quixote
Drunkard Dubliners
Duncton Wood Edge: Sioux Uprising
Entertainment USA: The Poems Euros Bowen: priest-poet
Fear and Trembling
Fear of Flying Flushed with Pride
For Whom The Bell Tolls Frankenstein
Frost on my Moustache Funeral In Berlin
Galileo's Daughter Garden Lovers' Quotations
Gorillas in the Mist
Gormenghast 1: Titus Groan
Gormenghast 2: Gormenghast
Gormenghast 3: Titus Alone Gridlock
Grimm's Fairy Tales Guardian at the Gate
Hemmingway's Chair Holy Fools
Hope and Suffering Hornblower in the West Indies
Horrible Histories: The Angry Aztecs
Hotel Honolulu How The Dead Live
Howard's End Huntingtower
I, Francis Iberia
Immortality In Patagonia
In the City By The Sea Inside the Whale and Other Essays
Irresistable Revolution
It Shouldn't Happen To A Vet Jacopone
Jesus of Gramoven Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Killing a Mouse on Sunday
Kiss and Tell Knowing Me Knowing You
Lamps of Fire Last Tango in Aberystwyth
Les Liaisons Dangereuses Life on Air
Lolita Louis XIV
Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels Man of Everest
Many Inventions
Marabou Stork Nightmares Microwave Vegetarian
Moby Dick
Mountain Mr Standfast
Much Obliged, Jeeves My Father's Glory, My Mother's Castle
My Pew: Things I have Seen From It
Narcissus and Goldmund Never Let Me Go
Niagara Falls All Over Again Our Man in Havana
Outposts
Peregrine Falcons Peter Calvay, Hermit
Photo Finish Polar Star
Popcorn Portugal: A Traveller's Guide
Raising Boys Red Dog
Requiem for a Cop Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
Rob Roy
Robbery Under Arms Robinson Crusoe
Roman Britain Rowan Williams: An Introduction
Sartor Resartus On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
Sexing the Cherry
Simpsons Comic Ago-Go Slimmer Than Most
Smiley's People South: The Endurance Expedition
Starting to Sail
Stonehenge and neighbouring monuments Stupid White Men
Supreme Courage
Surfacing Taking on the World
Tarka the Otter Tersias
The Acid House The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Age of Reason
The Ascent of Everest The Bacchae and Other Plays
The Bafut Beagles
The Best American Poetry 2003 The Black Cloth
The Blind Assassin
The Case of the Four Friends The Catcher in the Rye
The Celestine Prophecy
The Challenge of Cell Church The Church in the Market Place
The Comedians
The Cry of the Halidon The Currents of Space
The Davidson Affair
The End of Mr. Y The English Patient
The First Men In The Moon The First Three Circles of Hell
The Flame Trees of Thika
The French Lieutenant's Woman The Gabriel Hounds
The Game of Chess
The Giant Rat of Sumatra The Gulag Archipelago
The Heart of the Matter
The Honourable Schoolboy The House of the Four Winds
The House of the Spirits
The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales
The Kindness of Strangers The Knight and Knave of Swords
The Last Plantagenets
The Lays of Beleriand The Life of Noel Coward
The Little Drummer Girl
The Looking-Glass War The Lost Villages of Britain
The Love-Girl and The Innocent
The Maracot Deep The Master of Ballantrae
The Moon of Gomrath
The Moon's A Balloon The Mosquito Coast
The Mystery of Cloomber The Night Manager
The October Country
The Origin of Species The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
The Partner
The Pelican Brief The Periodic Table
The Prince of Darkness The Princess Bride
The Quest for Character
The Ragamuffin Gospel The Real Middle Earth
The Red Badge of Courage
The Reprieve The Revenge of Gaia
The Scheme for Full Employment The Shipping News
The Tailor of Panama
The Tombs of Atuan The Trumpet of Conscience
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Tide The Two-Timers
The Wasp Factory The Weekend That Changed The World
The Words of Desmond Tutu
The Words of Martin Luther King The World and Other Places
The World of Robert Fisk
The Writings of Gandhi The WWF Environment Handbook
This Other Eden
To the Ends of the Earth Tom Jones
Treasures of the Snow Tutankhamen
Twentieth-Century French Reader Two Thrillers
Ulysses
Unreliable Memoirs We All Died At Breakaway Station
When Eight Bells Toll
White Boar White Nights, A Gentle Creature, Dream of a Ridiculous Man
What's The Point Of It All?
White Powder, Green Light Wilfrid of Ripon
Witch Child
Won by One Wuthering Heights
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zoo Quest to Guiana
44 Scotland Street 500 Mile Walkies
TBRs not registered on Book Crossing:
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A Future for our Countryside A History of the English Church and People
Anglo-Saxon England
Beowulf Into Thin Air
Jung for Beginners Letters from the Desert
On Foot Through Africa
Orkneyinga Saga Rob Roy
Running With The Fox Small is Beautiful
The History of Western Philosophy The Age of Bede
The Art of Travel
The Brothers Karamazov The Catcher in the Rye
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Epic of Gilgamesh The Gift
The Interior Castle The Journey Through Wales
The Mabinogion
The Master of Ballantrae The Son of Porthos
The Solace of Fierce Landscapes
Thanks to
Katybean for letting me know how to do these cool boxes.
I am now aiming to see all of Shakespeare's plays (just under 40 known works):
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14 Sep 2004 Measure for Measure at Globe, London
28 Jan 2005 Richard III at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
05 Sep 2005 As You Like It at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
27 Apr 2006 Othello (German) at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
22 Jun 2006 Titus Andronicus (Japanese) at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
29 Aug 2006 Henry VI Part I at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
01 Sep 2006 Henry VI Part II at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
06 Sep 2006 Henry VI Part III at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
20 Dec 2006 The Winter's Tale at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
10 Jul 2008 The Taming of the Shrew at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
17 Jul 2009 As You Like It at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
27 May 2010 Antony and Cleopatra at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
02 April 2011 The Rape of Lucrece at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
03 June 2011 The Merchant of Venice at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Other plays:
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04 Sep 2004 Pedro the Great Pretender (Cervantes, 16??) at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
28 Feb 2005 Elmina's Kitchen (Kwame Kwei-Armah, 2003) at Birmingham Rep
25 Apr 2005 A New Way To Please You (Middleton and Rowley, 1618) at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
09 Jul 2005 Copenhagen (Michael Frayn, 1998) at Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
29 Sep 2005 Speaking Like Magpies (Frank McGuinness, 2005) at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
13 Oct 2005 Sejanus: His Fall (Ben Jonson, 1603)at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
27 Jan 2006 The Canterbury Tales, Part 1 (Geoffrey Chaucer, Mike Poulton, 2006)at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
01 Feb 2006 The Canterbury Tales, Part 2 (Geoffrey Chaucer, Mike Poulton, 2006) at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
31 May 2008 The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan, Patrick Barlow, 2005) at Criterion Theatre, London
15 Oct 2008 Fidelio (Opera by Ludwig von Beethoven, c.1806) at the Opera House, Budapest
22 Jan 2010 The Arabian Nights (Shahrazad and various unknown, Dominic Cooke, 1998) at Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
18 April 2011 Cardenio (Allegedly but not conclusively a collaboration between Shakespeare and John Fletcher) at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
11 October 2011 The Homecoming (Harold Pinter) at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
10 November 2011 Written on the Heart (David Edgar) at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
05 December 2011 The Heart of Robin Hood (David Farr) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
I brought 42 books to release:
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A Moveable Feast A Tudor Tragedy
Athabasca Bible: Authorised Version
Bible: New International Version Bible: New Testament, New English Version (2 copies)
Comic Speeches for the Legal Profession
Dictionary of Maori Place Names Doctor Zhivago
Faith in Exeter
Floodgate Florence Nightingale
Good Housekeeping Microwave Hints Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook
Harm Done; Going Wrong
Haynes Manual: Fiat Punto He Restores My Soul
I Capture the Castle
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull Journey Through Britain
Julian
Killing A Mouse On Sunday Living Free
Military Engineering Vol VI No Highway
Now Here's A Funny Thing Practical Astronomy for the Forces
Rebecca
River of Death Running Blind
San Andreas Santorini
So You Think You're a New Testament Writer
Strip Jack Susan's Journey (Narnia)
The French Lieutenant's Woman The Glass Blowers
The Homecoming
The King Must Die The Quiet American
The Singer Not The Song The Spoilers
Of these 21 have been journalled so far:
A Moveable Feast
Athabasca
Bible (Authorised Version)
Comic Speeches for the Legal Profession
Dictionary of Maori Place Names
Florence Nightingale
Harm Done; Going Wrong
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Killing A Mouse On Sunday
Narnia: Susan's Journey
Now Here's a Funny Thing
Rebecca
Running Blind
Santorini
Strip Jack
The Glass Blowers (Exeter - Brighton - Leeds - Bradford - Gosford, NSW, Australia)
The King Must Die
The following were taken on a release walk the next day:
Dr Zhivago (caught by
helenbyrne and taken to France)
I Capture the Castle
The Singer Not The Song
The Spoilers
My catches:
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A Wicked Deed Band of Brothers
Duncton Wood Grimm's Fairy Tales
How The Dead Live Knights and Castles
Labyrinth Living With Death and Dying
Mr Midshipman Hornblower Of Mice and Men
Peregrine Falcons Sartor Resartus On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
Saturday
Sharpe's Rifles Simpsons Comic Ago-Go
Spot in the Garden Tersias
The Assault on Jerusalem The English
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld The Invisible Dog
The Little Drummer Girl
The Maracot Deep The October Country
The Ondine The Perfect Storm
The Razor's Edge The Voyage of the Jearle Shannara
Touching the Void
Two Thrillers
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The Strangled Queen by Maurice Druon The Greek Myths: Origins of the gods by Hesiod
Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C S Forester
A Wicked Deed by Susanna Gregory
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A McKillip
The Living Church by John Stott The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
The Razor's Edge by W Somerset Maugham
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The East India Company Book of Tea by Antony Wild
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer Sahara by Michael Palin
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall-Smith
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Friendship with God by David Hope The Shooting Star (Tintin) by Herge
A Trust Betrayed by Candace Robb
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir The Queen's Man by Sharon Penman
The Blue Lotus (Tintin)by Herge
The Sixty-Minute Marriage by Rob Parsons In Siberia by Colin Thubron
Sharpe's Tiger (16th in series) by Bernard Cornwell
Dead Famous by Ben Elton Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo
Zarafa by Michael Allin
The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder Undertow by Emlyn Rees
Saturday by Ian McEwan The McDonaldization of the Church by John Drane
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck The Shack by William P Young
High Society by Ben Elton
Topsail and Battleaxe by Tom Cunliffe 1066 And All That by Sellar and Yeatman
The Vinland Sagas Flamingo Feather by Laurens van der Post
Venture to the Interior by Laurens van der Post
Ramage and the Drum Beat by Dudley Pope Headlong by Michael Frayn
Richard Bolitho, Midshipman by Alexander Kent
Johnny Gurkha: Friends in the Hills by E.D. Smith From the Inside: A Priest's View of the Catholic Church by Tony Flannery
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Is it worth believing? by Greg Clarke Kydd by Julian Stockwin
A Far Sunset by Edmund Cooper
The Dynamic of the Provisional by Br Roger of Taize The Fox and the Faith by Dan Parkinson
Mr Quiet by Roger Hargreaves
Tales from Ten Worlds by Arthur C Clarke Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck
Black Robe by Brian Moore
Call for the Dead by John Le Carre Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith
Aku-Aku by Thor Heyerdahl
Angels by Jane Williams The Orthodox Heretic by Peter Rollins
Silence and Honey Cakes by Rowan Williams
Sleeping with Bread by Dennis Linn et al Word into Silence by John Main
There's No Such Thing as a Dragon by Jack Kent
The Pied Piper of Hamlyn by Unknown Author Festival Without End by Br Roger of Taize
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diana and Michael Preston
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Path of the King by John Buchan
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A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The Alamo by Lon Tinkle
Twenty Years After by Alexander Dumas Expendable by James Alan Gardner
The Book of Paradox by Louise Cooper
Colemanballs 4 Renewing the Face of the Earth by David Atkinson
The Courts of the Morning by John Buchan
Ice by Tristan Jones After McDonaldization by John Drane
What is the New Age saying to the Church? by John Drane
Fatu Hiva: Back to Nature by Thor Heyerdahl
Beyond Prediction by John Drane, Ross Clifford and Philip Johnson
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck No Water Under The Bridge by Nicole Peake
A Churchless Faith by Alan Jamieson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Labyrinth: Illuminating the Inner Path by Brian Draper
The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane
Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown Author
Cutting Your Car Use by Anna Semlyen
Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood Ignis by Gina Wilson
The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A McKillip
Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia A McKillip Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A McKillip
Mr Cheerful by Roger Hargreaves
Mission-Shaped Evangelism by Steve Hollingshurst Wildwood by Roger Deakin
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
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The Case for Working with Your Hands by Matthew Crawford
The Poisoned Crown by Maurice Druon The She-Wolf of France by Maurice Druon
The Lily and the Lion by Maurice Druon
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula LeGuin
The Farthest Shore by Ursula LeGuin
The Golden Step by Christopher Somerville Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
One for the Morning Glory by John Barnes
The Sun Over Breda by Arturo Perez-Reverte Clear Waters Rising by Nicolas Crane
Purity of Blood by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey
Walkabout by James Vance Marshall The Sixty-Minute Family by Rob Parsons
Skeen's Leap by Jo Clayton
Skeen's Return by Jo Clayton Skeen's Search by Jo Clayton
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Charlemagne: Barbarian and Emperor by Derek Wilson
Don't Wake the Bear, Hare! by Steve Smallman and Caroline Pedler
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Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by David Miller
Fear and Trust: God-Centred Leadership by David Runcorn
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan
The Boys Book: How To Be The Best At Everything by Dominic Enright and Guy MacDonald
The Proud Servant by Margaret Irwin
Cooper's Creek by Alan Moorehead
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