Silly game- anyone up for it?

Sacred River, by Peter Ackroyd, and the last one is Bring up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel.

What about:

The letter that would change everything arrived on a Tuesday.

Yes, it's the Thames. So - who wrote a wonderful book about it, fairly recently?

The gospel of John. But I posted that one a few weeks ago......

' His children are falling from the sky'

I think the first quote was 'the colour of magic'
My first would be
In the beginning was the word.

How the elephant got its trunk! It was full of insatiable curiosity , as am I

Well probably not the great grey-green greasy Limpopo river, that was another tale (which one folks?)
Or the Whanganui. And the Amazon is much longer than that.
The Thames then. Three Men in a Boat maybe?

Now Jess, are you a geographer? Bit of research allowed, I think.

One of Pratchetts witchy ones I think.
Must be a river - but which one?

I think it's of Terry Pratchet's but no idea which one...

"It has a length of 215 miles, and is navigable for 191 miles"

The wind howled. The storm crackled on the mountains. Lightning prodded the crags like an old man trying to get an elusive blackberry pip out of his false teeth.

Sorry, I know it's 3 sentences but the first two are only little.

Which first line was that please, Hannoonna?

Cider With Rosie.

Don't think so, other than cutting and pasting the post you are answering - too much of a time lapse and it becomes like a game of "Consequences!!"

is there any way of being able to quote a previous comment, and then commenting yourself, so that everyone knows what comment we are answering??it would be very useful to be able to do that.

ooops! done it again[posted on wrong place.]

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote?Think the place was Holcomb in Kansas.

No, Mary Stewart's The Gabriel Hounds. As I said, not great literature but I've always loved it. Sadly it could never be written now with the situation in the Middle East.

They came to Baghdad?

"I met him in the street called Straight"

Not great literature, but one of my favourites.

"The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say.

That's it, Jess although there have been many more modern versions of the boy who cried wolf.

was the story by Aesop gracesmum ?

Got it Annodomini ! I wonder what made me think of it......
BTW my reply was to JessM - bit of a time lapse.

better luck this time