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Theo Clarke

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The British Herbal and Family Physician to Which is Added a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Families by Nicholas Culpepper

Britannia Volume the First Or, An Illustration Of The Kingdom Of England And Dominion of Wales by a Geographical and Historical Description Of The Principal Roads...1675 by John Ogilby

A twist in the tale : twelve short stories by Jeffrey Archer

The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

Blue Flame (Perfect Fire Trilogy) by K. M. Grant

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Henry Purcell by A K Holland

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CollectionsYour library (948), Box EP1 (6), Box FS1 (17), Box UF4 (37), Sitting room (7), Bedroom (74), Kitchen (14), Currently reading (4), To read (429), Read but unowned (65), Audiobooks (2), Borrowed (3), bookcrossing (105), Favorites (188), Wishlist (42), Unread unowned (9), Archaeology (19), Oral history (9), Wibble (23), All collections (1,169)

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TagsUK author (746), fiction (694), 20th century (643), 21st century (575), paperback (541), first edition (501), novel (490), hardcover (476), non-fiction (428), US author (270) — see all tags

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Groups1001 Books to read before you die, Archaeologists, Best of British, Bestsellers over the Years, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Book Care and Repair, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, BookCrossers, Boy's Own Fans, Brits — show all groups

Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Dante Alighieri, Jane Austen, Ambrose Bierce, William Blake, Lawrence Block, William Boyd, Bill Bryson, Eddie Campbell, Raymond Chandler, Bernard Cornwell, Will Cuppy, Philip K. Dick, John Donne, Umberto Eco, James Ellroy, Ian Fleming, George MacDonald Fraser, Brian Freemantle, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, H. Rider Haggard, Dashiell Hammett, Harry Harrison, Jack Higgins, Anthony Horowitz, Clive James, Jerome K. Jerome, Fritz Leiber, Armistead Maupin, Alan Moore, Baroness Orczy, Robert B. Parker, Philip Pullman, Damon Runyon, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Dorothy L. Sayers, Alexander McCall Smith, Neal Stephenson, Studs Terkel, James Thurber, Evelyn Waugh, Donald E. Westlake, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBridport Old Books, Browsers Bookshop and Café, Chapel Books, Claude Cox Old and Rare Books, Poor Richard's Books, Stanford's, Wild and Homeless Books

About my libraryMy library is an eclectic assemblage of some 8000 books. Feel free to send me anything on my
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My Your library collection includes only books that I own. Ordered means bought but not yet received. Unread unowned is for books that I have added to LibraryThing to complete the bibliography of an author or that I have glanced at before deciding that they are not for me.
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★ - no significant merit (often abandoned unfinished).
★★ - disappointing.
★★★ - average. Enjoyable or interesting but nothing special.
★★★★ - very good.
★★★★★ - excellent.

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Real nameTheo Clarke

LocationIpswich, Suffolk

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Common KnowledgeSeries (209), Awards (233), Characters (2319), Places (501)

Member sinceFeb 23, 2008

Currently readingDevil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
Head Count by Ingrid Noll
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

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Running with scissors : a memoir by Augusten Burroughs

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Bending the Landscape : Science fiction by Nicola Griffith

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Bending the Landscape: Fantasy by Nicola Griffith

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Kelly's directory of Ipswich and neighbourhood. 1970: 54th ed

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Kelly's directory of Ipswich and neighbourhood. 1966: 50th ed

TheoClarke rated, added:
Kelly's directory of Ipswich and neighbourhood. 1969: 53rd ed

Interesting. He must have been worthwhile and entertaining friend, even if a rather alarming shopkeeper.

Best wishes

AT

posted by abbottthomas at 7:04 am (EST) on Nov 5, 2009

Thanks!

posted by MrAndrew at 6:05 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2009

A friend ~~~~ good to have! I see on Wikipedia your interest in houses. Checking my listing I am surprised to find I did not review one of my all-time favorite books "The Living House" by George Ordish. It is a detailled account of Bartons End from 1556-1949. Most probably it is a book for you! I hope you can track it down. (I do not own the book that followed its history forward.)

posted by Esta1923 at 1:00 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2009

Thanks, I'll look it up!

posted by jjmcgaffey at 3:49 am (EST) on Aug 16, 2009

Sadly I am realizing how old we are, and the consequences. We were in England in 1974, 1976 and 1979. Each trip was wonderful. (We even seriously considered retiring to London but that proved impossible.) About Aldeburgh: my "trip diaries" are in storage and we aren't now sure if we were there each trip or only twice. I know we were there when Britten was still alive (or am I imagining that we saw him in a balcony?) I recall one funny thing: we'd bought all tickets in advance but, en route from London, met a man who was only going to "Hear a work by a friend named Bach." We said we did not have tickets for that. BUT, walking along in the afternoon we encountered him, and the young Bach (with his mother!) and they influenced us to attend that performance (which was very worthhwhile.) We saw performances of "The Firey Furnace" and "Curlew River." We attended many concerts. I recall a singing harpist.) We always were glad we had spent the time, energy and money to come to your lovely area. Now here at home we have seen "Peter Grimes" in several incarnations on TV, and a local group has done "Curlew River" beautifully. **** I'm trying to think of the sculptor but am drawing a blank ~~ you know who I mean. All in all we were well rewarded for being there.

posted by Esta1923 at 2:18 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2009

After cleaning up a greasy spill (you don't want to know) I paused & checked to see the great Discussion. . . then, to this page which sent me to Aldeburgh and Britten Festival visits! What a wonderful place. . . we had splendid times (and even funny adventures there!) ~~~ Suppose someone had originally replied (to "What to do with inane reviews " IGNORE THEM!" we'd never have met. . . and I wouldn't have been thrown back to England this California afternoon.

posted by Esta1923 at 5:28 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2009

THANK YOU!!!!! I am in the midst of ferocious household chores but will add my comments to the Great Discussion asap~~~esta

posted by Esta1923 at 3:43 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2009

Hi Theo. I have just had a peek at your library. It's amazing. I can't believe how organised you are. My library needs a lot of work. You also have some great crosswords "how to" books. Are The Times' crosswords as hard as I think they are?

Jennifer

posted by socialpages at 5:26 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2009

Thanks Theo I will check them out. Are you a crossword fan as well? One of my first jobs (over twenty years ago now) was for a newspaper in Sydney and every morning the staff would do the crossword and puzzles. My husband got me interested in cryptic crosswords and gradually I came to understand how they work. I still class myself as a beginner as I can't finish the cryptics in The Sydney Morning Herald. I haven't had much luck finding books on crosswords so I will be very interested in what's in your library.
Jennifer

posted by socialpages at 5:15 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2009

Thank you, a friend gave me their old computer a couple of months ago, I am still trying to work out how to do things.

posted by calm at 11:09 am (EST) on Jun 15, 2009

Thank you for your kind comment about my twisted sense of humour.

Looking at the Authors in your Favourite Author list, I am truly surprised that we only share 7 books!

I must get that Sandy Balfour 'What I love about Cricket: etc etc' book that you have. Going right now to add it to my Wishlist Collection (collections - wheee!)

Jim

posted by justjim at 7:33 am (EST) on Jun 12, 2009

Why, thank you sir! I am glad to have entertained :-)

*bows*

posted by LizT at 2:45 pm (EST) on May 13, 2009

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