I have a question for you: I am looking for a book / a series of books which meet the following criteria: 0) the book should be a fiction book; 1) the book should be written in English by a native speaker; 2) the book is written within last 20 years and uses modern English (so no fiction st...

In the original CHERUB series the children work for a secret espionage group called CHERUB. It is stated a few times throughout the books that whilst they believe the name is initials no one actually knows what they stand for now. However, in the Henderson's Boys spin off series we find out that ...

One of the main protagonists in the outer frame story of Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love is a man named Aziz Z. Zahara. This name immediately struck me because of its interesting relationship with the alphabet: his first name (like the alphabet) starts with A and ends with Z, while his last...

In Sir Walter Scott's "Chronicles of the Canongate" we have the following "indigestion, from having swallowed victuals like a Lei'stershire clown bolting bacon" I have not traced any other reference to "Leicestershire clowns" and in particular whether excessive eating formed part of their a...