- Sue Limb
Sue Limb (born 1946,
Hitchin ,Hertfordshire ) is a British writer and broadcaster. She studied Elizabethan lyric poetry at Cambridge and then trained in education. She has not taught since 1982 – at London'sPentonville Prison . She lives on an organic farm nearNailsworth , Gloucestershire.She is the co-author of a biography of
Antarctic explorer Captain Titus Oates. Her work includes about novels – many of them for young adults – a sitcom forITV television andBBC Radio 4 ",Up the Garden Path ". For Radio 4, she has written a number of comedy series :"The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere" (two series), "The Sit-Crom", "Four Joneses and a Jenkins" and "Alison and Maud" – and "Growing Pains", a documentary about ageing, "Hilaire Belloc" and "Cities" (six programmes of literary anthology). [ [http://www.suelimb.co.uk/index.php?id=2 Biography at Sue Limb's website. Undated.] .Accessed: 2007-09-01.]Under the name Dulcie Domum, Limb wrote "Bad Housekeeping", a humorous weekly column in "
The Guardian "'s "Guardian Weekend" section between 1988 [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1360018,00.html "The Guardian, 27 November 2004] .Accessed: 2007-09-01.] and 2001. [ [http://www.bloomsbury.com/childrens/microsite.asp?id=627§ion=3 Bloomsbury Press] .Accessed 2007-09-01.] Collections of the columns, a feminist novelist's diaries of a rural idyll gone wrong, were republished in book form. The books, reissued bySolidus Press in 2002, are listed below. In 1989, as Domum, Limb coined the term "bonkbuster", a play on "blockbuster" and the verb "to bonk", a British slang term forsexual intercourse . In 2002 the "Oxford English Dictionary " recognized this word for the first time, defining it as "a type of popular novel characterized by frequent explicit sexual encounters between the characters." [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/18/nbonk18.xml "The Telegraph", 18 February 2002] Accessed 2007-11-11.] Said Limb of the honor, "It's an unexpected event. People keep telling me I've made my place in history, so I can die happily now." [ [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/18/1023864428399.html "Sydney Morning Herald", 19 June 2002] Accessed 2007-11-11.]Works
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Captain Oates, Soldier and Explorer " (with Patrick Cordingley), Batsford, 1982, ISBN 0-713-42693-4
*"Up the Garden Path ", Transworld, 1984, ISBN 0-370-30595-7
*"Love Forty ", Transworld, 1986
*"The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere ", Bantam, 1987, ISBN 0-593-01296-8
*"Chicken Mission ", Orchard, 1988, ISBN 1-860-39081-1
*"Tree Trouble ", Orchard, 1988, ISBN 1-852-13096-2
*"Love's Labours ", Transworld, 1989, ISBN 0-727-85253-1
*"Me Jane ", Orchard, 1989, ISBN 1-860-39084-6
*"Big Trouble ", Orchard, 1990, ISBN 1-852-13097-0
*"Dulcie Domum's Bad Housekeeping ", Fourth Estate (reissued by Solidus Press 2002), 1990, ISBN 1-872-18027-2
*"Sheep's Eyes and Hogwash ", Heinemann, 1992, ISBN 0-434-42446-3
*"More Bad Housekeeping ", Fourth Estate (reissued by Solidus Press 2002), 1992, ISBN 1-85702-151-7
*"Come Back, Grandma ", Red Fox, 1993, ISBN 0-099-21951-4
*"Dulcie Dishes the Dirt ", Fourth Estate (reissued by Solidus Press 2002), 1994, ISBN 1-85702-236-X
*"Passion Fruit ", Heinemann, 1995, ISBN 0-434-00278-x
*"Enlightenment ", Heinemann, 1997, ISBN 0-434-00280-1
*"Dulcie Goes Native ", Severn House (reissued by Solidus Press 2002), 1998, ISBN 0954337794
*"Big and Little ", Orchard, 1999, ISBN 1-852-13073-3
*"You At The Back Stop Laughing ", Beaver Books, 1999, ISBN 0-099-42670-6
*"China Lee " (reissued as "You're Amazing, Mr Jupiter "), Orchard, 2004, ISBN 1-852-13031-9
*"Girl, 15, Charming But Insane ", Bloomsbury, 2004, ISBN 0747571856
*"", Bloomsbury, 2005, ISBN 0747575622
*"", Bloomsbury, 2006, ISBN 0747582165
*"Ruby Rogers is a Waste of Space ", Bloomsbury, 2006, ISBN 0747583218
*"", Bloomsbury, 2006, ISBN 9780747583226
*"Girl, 15, Flirting for England ", Bloomsbury, 2007, ISBN 9780747584773
*"", Bloomsbury, 2007, ISBN 9780747582724
*"Ruby Rogers is a Walking Legend ", Bloomsbury, 2007, ISBN 9780747583233External links
* [http://www.suelimb.co.uk/ Sue Limb's website]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,466014,00.html A "Bad Housekeeping" column by Limb (as 'Dulcie Domum') in "Guardian Weekend", The Guardian, London, 31 March 2001] zoe and chloe out to lunchReferences
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