James Bond
Fictional spy created by Ian Fleming, who first appeared in the novel 'Casino Royale', but see Fleming's page for an alternative origin for Bond. Eleven further novels and two short story collectio...
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Billy Bunter
Character in a series of stories set in Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys weekly story magazine 'The Magnet'.
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The Wind in the Willows
Written by Kenneth Grahame, much of it based on a series of letters to he wrote to his son.  First published October 1908.
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Three Men in a Boat
Comic novel written by Jerome K. Jerome, first published in 1889.
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Ziggy Stardust
'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' is a concept album based on the story of a fictional rock star who is the human manifestation of an alien being attempting to present...
3 memorials
Crunchy the Credit Crunch Monster
Official mascot of the global recession.
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Novel by Charles Dickens.  Originally published in serial form 1843–4.  The picture is an ilustration by Fred Barnard from the 1870s.
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Little Dorrit
A novel by Charles Dickens first published in serial form 1855 and 1857.  The title character is the daughter of a man imprisioned in Marshalsea prison for debt.
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Mother Goose
The interment register at St Olaves Hart Street records Mother Goose being buried on 14 September 1586. This is extremely strange so we did some digging. The story of a goose laying golden eggs ca...
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