A Touch Ticklish

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The titles chosen for this sampler are linked by a certain ticklishness - but that is where the similarity ends.

This 'ticklishness' emerges in a variety of ways - some familiar, others more surprising. Some extracts will provoke spontaneous laughter sparked by delight, shock, recognition - at both the situations described and the language used to tell the story.

Although all the samplers take the same theme, titles on the lists may vary according to what is available in each format.

A Touch Ticklish - Braille list

Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island
Alice Thomas Ellis - The 27th Kingdom
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones' Diary
Esther Freud - Hideous Kinky
Carl Hiaasen - Stormy Weather
Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegon Days
Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
Tom Sharpe - Porterhouse Blue
Colin Shindler - Manchester United Ruined My Life
Meera Syal - Anita and Me

A Touch Ticklish - Calibre cassette list

Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Country
Angela Carter - Wise Children
Alice Thomas Ellis - The 27th Kingdom
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones' Diary
Pam Houston - Cowboys are my Weakness
Alan Isler - The Prince of West End Avenue
David Nobbs - Second from Last in the Sack Race
Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
Tom Sharpe - Porterhouse Blue
Barbara Trapido - Juggling

A Touch Ticklish - RNIB Talking Book CD list

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack
Tom Sharpe - Porterhouse Blue
Jane Austen - Emma
Lionel Blue - Bolts from the Blue
Pauline Melville -The Ventriloquist's Tale
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones' Diary
Maureen Lipman - How Was it for You?
Alan Warner - The Sopranos
Roddy Doyle - The Van
Kathy Lette - Girls' Night Out

A Touch Ticklish - Large Print Book list

U = Ulverscroft I = Isis C = Chivers M = Magna

Bill Bryson - Down Under (C)
Kiran Desai - Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (I)
Janet Evanovich - Three to Get Deadly (I)
Tony Hawks - Round Ireland with a Fridge (I)
Sue Limb - Dulcie Goes Native (U)
Maureen - Lipman Lip Reading (I)
Jane Smiley - Horse Heaven (C)
Sandi Toksvig - Whistling for Elephants (U)
Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (C)
Mark Wallington - Happy Birthday Mr Shakespeare (C)

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