The Goon Show Scripts
10 best books like The Goon Show Scripts (Spike Milligan): The Day of the Triffids, The Crystal Cave, The Eyes of the Dragon, Enemy Mine, Kon-Tiki, Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917, Mostly Harmless, The Last Enchantment, Chariots of The Gods, Duncton Wood
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0812967127 |
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548258 |
Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0751504572 |
A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies, murdered by a strange and horrible poison. While the land of Delain mourns, the evil wizard Flagg, hatches an unscrupulous plot, which sees the King's eldest son Peter imprisoned for his father's murder, and the youngest son inherit the throne. Only Peter...
| Author | Barry B. Longyear |
| ISBN | 0441206727 |
I read 0595309763, an "authors Guild backinprint.com edition." Iow, the original novelette, not Gerrold's novel created from the movie. I wanted to read it because I remember loving the movie. I had only a vague memory of it, mainly just the attempt, over a campfire, to move from trying to kill each other...
| Author | Thor Heyerdahl |
| ISBN | 0671726528 |
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical...
| Author | Richard Curtis |
| ISBN | 0140296085 |
Then look no further. Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty is the book for you. Here, at last, for the first time, are the full scripts of one of British television's funniest comedies. Follow the hilarious misadventures of the despicable Edmund Blackadder and his dimwitted sidekick Baldrick through...
| Author | Douglas Adams |
| ISBN | 0345379330 |
It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548274 |
"Here, away from lights and sounds of town or village, the night was deep, the black sky stretching, fathomless, away between the spheres, to some unimaginable world where gods walked, and suns and moons showered down like petals falling. Some power there is that draws men's eyes and hearts up and outwards,...
| Author | Erich von Däniken |
| ISBN | 0425166805 |
Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author's own...
| Author | William Horwood |
| ISBN | 0099443007 |
It seems the world has almost forgot about Duncton wood. The books are hard to find in second hand shops. I would rate the books up there with Lord of the rings, Dune, the dark materials trilogy and watership down. If you like that sort of stuff you will simply be amazed by the moles of Duncton Wood. Amazed...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548266 |
“I am nothing, yes; I am air and darkness, a word, a promise. I watch in the crystal and I wait in the hollow hills. But out there in the light I have a young king and a bright sword to do my work for me, and build what will stand when my name is only a word for forgotten songs and outworn wisdom, and when your name,...
| Author | Thor Heyerdahl |
| ISBN | 0451051211 |
Ra tells of Heyerdahl's voyage from N. Africa to S. America in a 45' papyrus boat modelled on those depicted in Egyptian wall paintings. A violent storm ended the 1st expedition but within a year the seven men had embarked on their 2nd journey in Ra II.
One riddle, two answers & no solution
Why...
| Author | Nicholas Blake |
| ISBN | 0330373218 |
The book starts off with the diary of Frank, who addressing the reader tells us that he is going to kill the man who ran over his son. The diary stops at the point where Frank is supposed to kill the person responsible but he fails and the yet the other person turns up dead anyways and Nigel Strangeways is invited...
