Fiction Fanatic Gifts

Sstranger than fiction

'Sue didn't watch soap operas all the time. She also reads books'

Characters jumping out of a book.

'I see here you're a professional writer. That explains the touch of whimsy in your return.'

Tall tales and Short stories

'Relax, Gulliver, there may be a book in this.'

Finally - a software package that makes it snap to write that novel.

Fiction book sales.

'I have no money to pay my tab, but I will give you a free reading of my novel.'

"He's about your size. Peg-leg. Seen him?"

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

"Ooh look ...the book I've been waiting ages for, but will never have time to read."

'If this machine isn't out of whack, reading is gong to be even harder than I expected.'

"I can't have the wart removed, I just got the Wicked Witch role in 'Wizard of Oz'."

"Mr. Crusoe, you have some heft overdue fines."

'Dr. Jekyll, I understand you'll have a Mr. Hyde representing you?'

The book that will not be denied!

Television Readers.

Tarzanna, of the Jungle!

"And last week I nearly crashed while reading on the freeway..."

"He's celebrating finishing the last page of his novel... Now he's just got 436 that come before it to write!"

Congratulations on winning the 'Inland revenue fiction award' Mister Hambone.

John Buchan

"I'll check, but you know what they say – if a story sounds too good to be true, it's probably sold out."

Book lovers

Fagin from Oliver Twist

"Do you have a book on jobs men are best at?"

"For the last time stupid, you're tin man, you are not by any leap of the imagination, anything like Iron Man!"

Bernice Rubens

Kazuo Ishiguro

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'

Entrance/Exit

In an alternate universe, characters from the rough draft and finished manuscript of the same novel meet themselves at a cocktail party.

Fellow Sheep of the Ring

The Reason Why Truth is Stranger than Fiction