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Anglophile Books began as an international booksearch service that located out-of-print and difficult-to-find books. We now search for any book in the following specialties: British women authors, Books for Anglophiles, Women's Studies/History, and Children's books. We stock secondhand books on a variety of subjects,with special emphasis on our fields of interest. View our complete profile

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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Sept. 14, 2006 The Man Booker Prize for fiction shortlist announced
Have you read any of the six titles on the shortlist? David Mitchell, the bookmakers favourite, failed to make the final six authors vying for the £50,000 award as did Peter Carey, previous two-time winner. The winner will be announced Oct. 10. The Book Standard has short reviews of most of the nominated titles.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Sept. 13, 2006 Roald Dahl born on this day in 1916

Friday, September 08, 2006

Sept. 8, 2006 Storybook England
Thanks to Jerri C. for sending us this delightful link. We could spend hours (when we are not working of course, ahem...) exploring this site that features some of our favourite children's authors and their wonderful books.

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Sept.3, 2006 WW2 People's War

Between June 2003 and January 2006 the BBC asked the public to share their memories of World War Two. This fascinating archive created from their contributions has 47,000 stories and 15,000 images. Anglophile Books has WWII fiction and non-fiction books available.