Book and Reading
A novelist
A literary genre
The same style/subject literature.
Chick lit (chick
flick = film)
Fiction on young women and emotional lives.
A plot
The story of book
Blurb
A brief description of book’s contents on the back cover.
Browse walk around
a shop, looking at things, but without planning to buy anything.
A paper back (x hard back)
Book cover made of thin card.
e-book
download onto an iPad, Kindle, etc.
flick through
look quickly at the pages (a book, magazine, newspaper).
Content page
List of items showing the page number they begin on.
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J. K. Rowling who wrote the Harry Potter
Books, used to be an English language teacher.
The
first James Bond Novel which Ian
Fleming wrote was called Casino Royale.
Rudyard
Kipling whose children’s story The Jungle
Bok was made into a Disney Film, was born in India.
War and peace that is one of the longest
novels ever written, takes place in Russia in the 19th century.
The London Flat, where the famous detective
Sherlock Holmes lived was in Baker Street.
Frankenstein, the story of a mad scientist
which created a monster, was written by Mary Shelley.
Dan
Brown, who is best known for his novel The
Da-Vinci Code, usually writes thrillers.
The
first play which Shakespeare wrote
was Henry VI Part One .
Mario
Puzo whose novel the Godfather became
an Oscar winning film, was born in the USA.
The Guinness book of records, which was
first published in 1995, has sold about 90 million copies.
The
imaginary place where the novel the lord
of the rings is set is called Middle earth.
Dracula, the story of a vampire who
drank the blood of his victims, was English.
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