No und no. I'll give you a clue. It's not roger Hargreaves either.
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Cecelia Ahern
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
I'll give anyone on this thread until midnight tomorrow to come up with the right answer.
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Donated £30.
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The response to this has totally exceeded our hopes and expectations, and then some. We're now well into triple-figures for tickets in the hat and four-figures for funds raised.
I'm adding a mystery bespoke third place prize in recognition of the tremendous support.
We'll aim for Laura to make the draw at noon here on Saturday, which is 6pm in the UK.
The prizes will be awarded in the following order:
1. 'Build Your Own' Urban Chronograph
2. 'Build Your Own' Urban Chronograph
3. * Mystery Bespoke Third Prize *
4. 'Harrison' by Jonathan Betts
5. 'Harrison' by Jonathan Betts
6. 'Harrison' by Jonathan Betts
Just done another donation of £30 so put me down for another 6 please!!
Children and cancer should never have to be said in the same sentence and hopefully one day it won't 👍🏻
Chris
Two for me, thanks.
I know he wouldn't want anyone to make a fuss, but if you didn't already know what a generous bloke Dave O'S is, well, my goodness.
Richard Scarry
Irvine Welsh
William Boyd
(all ice-cream connections)
Khushwant Singh?
Some that others have suggested:
Henri Charriere
J.K. Rowling
Enid Blyton
Arthur Ransome
Richmal Crompton
P.G. Wodehouse
James Gelsey
Thomas Adamson
Last night I dreamed that I wrote Lord of the Rings. When I woke up I realised that I had been Tolkien in my sleep.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Franz Kafka
Elisabeth Carpenter.
Charles M Schulz
What do I know. It's all Greek to me.
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Although I am a bit non plussed by your two examples. One is Peter rabbit, and the other one is rabbit Peter. Can't they make their minds up?
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Hermann Hesse
Cervantes
Victor Hugo
Tom Clancy
Andy McNab
Jeffrey Archer
Frank McCourt
Walter Scott
Thomas Hughes
Louis F. G. de Geer
E. W. Hildick
Lewis Carroll
Goethe
Peter O'Donnell
H. C. Andersen
Stieg Larsson
Sofi Oksanen
Lee Child
Harold Robbins
Norman Mailer
Frank Elli
Edward Bunker
Thomas Wolfe
They're the same title arent they? Different languages
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I've popped a tenner in, sorry it's not more.
I reckon Seikopath is thinking about Lee child or Clive cussler.
Well, they've spelt the G funny in the last one, and the next letter I don't recognise at all. It looks like half of the' 61' sign ('oi' sound) and might be a letter that was found in imperial Russian (ie before the language was modernised) but I don't recognise it. Plus the ending is different. For a plural it should be 'ue' like in the first one. That's what I remenber anyway
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I've run them through that infallible tool, Google Translate, and it gives me for English-Russian:
Peter-Rabbit and Others
Питер-Кролик и другие
Rabbit Peter and His Friends
Кролик Питер и его друзья
That appears to match the book titles, so maybe it indicates that the translators just used Google.
My Russian must be wrong then, because I thought the first one 'droogiye' meant friends
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It's like 'droog' in clockwork orange
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I'm confused now . Might have to ask my stepmum next time I see her.
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I'm guessing that it's not Beatrix Potter then?
George Orwell? John le Carré? Ernest Hemingway? John Steinbeck? Barbara Cartland?
There have been a couple of donations by members who have not posted in this thread. Many thanks indeed, I've added you to the list but if you don't wish to be included please drop me a PM.
J. D. Salinger
Ayn Rand
Harry Harrison
Isaac Asimov
Piers Anthony
Mark Twain
John Wyndham
Fred Hoyle
Robert Sheckley
J. H. du Plessis
Alistair MacLean
Frederick Forsythe
Robert Ludlum
Authors...
Eliot Pattison
Heinrich Harrer
Colin Thubron
Only a day to go now. Here's a reminder of the prizes.
1. 'Build Your Own' Urban Chronograph
2. 'Build Your Own' Urban Chronograph
3. * Mystery Bespoke Third Prize *
4. 'Harrison' by Jonathan Betts
5. 'Harrison' by Jonathan Betts
6. 'Harrison' by Jonathan Betts
And only six hours left to guess seikopath's mystery author!
Cheers, Matthew
No one's got it yet . You'll be kicking yourself matthew
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Cardinal Newman?
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
F*** this, it's easier to donate the bloody £20 myself. Four more, please.