Fiction Phrases

Phrases

• 1066 And All That: A Memorable History Of England (W. C. Sellar book)
• A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire (Andrea Newman book)
• A Brief History Of Time (Stephen Hawking book)
• A Case Of Identity (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens book)
• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess book and Stanley Kubrick movie)
• A Fatal Inversion (Barbara Vine book)
• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future: Twists And Turns, And Lessons Learned (Michael J. Fox book)
• A Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Jules Verne book)
• A Kestrel For A Knave (Barry Hines book)
• A Murder Is Announced (Agatha Christie book)
• A Passage To India (E. M. Forster book and David Lean movie)
• A Perfect Spy (John Le Carre book)
• A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (James Joyce book)
• A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving book)
• A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
• A Scandal in Bohemia (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson book)
• A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka book)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams play)
• A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth book)
• A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens book)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseine book)
• A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute book)
• A legend in his own lifetime
• A legend in the making
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
• All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye (Christopher Brookmyer book)
• All Quiet On The Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque book and WWII movie)
• Always have your nose in a book
• America's story teller (Kodak advertising slogan)
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
• And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie book)
• And thereby hangs a tale
• Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt book)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy book)
• Anne Of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery book)
• Around The World In Eighty Days (Jules Verne book)
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner book)
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• Be under no illusion
• Beat to a pulp
• Bell, book and candle
• Billy Liar (Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie)
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell book)
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Book him
• Book him Danno (A catchphrase from Hawaii Five-O)
• Book learning
• Book worm
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley book)
• Breakfast At Tiffany's (Truman Capote book)
• Breakfast Of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut book)
• Breaking story
• Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh book)
• Bright Lights, Big City (Jay Mcinerney book)
• Bring to book
• Brought to book
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
• By the book
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres book)
• Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Catch 22 (Joseph Heller book)
• Character driven fiction
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl book)
• Closed book
• Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell book)
• Cock and bull story
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Cover story
• Crack a book
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• Cut a long story short
• David Copperfield (Charles Dickens book)
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Death On The Nile (Agatha Christie book)
• Death On The Orient Express (Agatha Christie book)
• Dee plane, dee plane (A catchphrase from Fantasy Island)
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick book)
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it (Thomas Cook advertising slogan)
• Eats, Shoots And Leaves (Lynne Truss book)
• End of story
• Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (Tom Robbins book)
• Every picture tells a story (Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan)
• Every trick in the book
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Evil Under The Sun (Agatha Christie book)
• Fact not fiction
• Fairytale ending (a happy simplistic ending to a story similar to those found in fairy tales)
• Far From The Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy book)
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson book)
• Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James book)
• First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
• Fishy story
• Go by the book
• Goodnight Mister Tom book by Michelle Magorian
• Great Expectations (Charles Dickens book)
• Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett book)
• Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (J. K. Rowling book)
• Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling book)
• Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (J. K. Rowling book)
• His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
• His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes story)
• His life's an open book
• How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
• I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith book)
• I can read you like a book
• Inside story
• It was the best of times: it was the worst of times (the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities)
• Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte book)
• Kane And Abel (Jeffrey Archer book)
• L A Story (Steve Martin movie)
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos De Laclos book)
• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott book)
• Little black book
• Live to tell the tale
• Living legend
• Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)
• Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
• Love Story (Ali MacGraw / Ryan O'Neal movie)
• Love Story (Taylor Swift song)
• Love means never having to say you're sorry (Love Story)
• Mansfield Park (Jane Austen novel)
• Memoirs Of A Geisha (Arthur Golden book)
• Mr. Midshipman Easy (Frederick Marryat book)
• My side of the story
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Night Watch (Terry Pratchett book)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell book)
• Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen novel)
• Notes From The Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky book)
• Noughts And Crosses (book series by Malorie Blackman)
• Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck book)
• Old wives' tale
• On The Origin Of Species (Charles Darwin book)
• On The Road (Jack Kerouac book)
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez book)
• One for the book
• One side of the story
• Open book
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Play it by the book
• Poetry In Motion (Johnny Tillotson song)
• Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen novel)
• Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Round Ireland With A Fridge (Tony Hawks book)
• Same old story
• Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen novel)
• Silver Blaze (Sherlock Holmes story)
• Sob story
• Story of my life
• Stranger than fiction
• Swallows And Amazons (children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome)
• Talking Book (Stevie Wonder album)
• Tattle tale
• Tell tale sign
• Tender Is The Night (F Scott Fitzgerald novel)
• Tess Of The D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy book)
• The Adventure of Black Peter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Creeping Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Crooked Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Dancing Men (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Dying Detective (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Gloria Scott (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Red-Headed League (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Reigate Squire (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Resident Patient (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Retired Colourman (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Three Gables (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Three Students (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Age Of Reason (Jean Paul Sartre book)
• The Art Of The Deal (Donald Trump slogan and book title)
• The BFG - Big Friendly Giant (Roald Dahl book)
• The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Buddha Of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi book)
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger book)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Day Of The Jackal (Frederick Forsyth book)
• The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger book)
• The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce book)
• The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The Final Problem (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Five Orange Pips (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The French Have A Word For It (Josh Lanyon book)
• The Garden Of Eden (Ernest Hemingway book)
• The Ghost In The Machine (Arthur Koestler book)
• The Go-Between (L. P. Hartley book)
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The Godfather (Mario Puzo book)
• The Good Book
• The Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck novel and Henry Fonda movie)
• The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald book)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams book)
• The Hobbit (J R R Tokien book)
• The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins book)
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Invisible Man (HG Wells story and later a film)
• The Jungle Book (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
• The Man with the Twisted Lip (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side (Agatha Christie book title)
• The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco book)
• The Odyssey (Homer book)
• The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert movie)
• The Philadelphia Story (Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan book)
• The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot book)
• The Problem of Thor Bridge (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe book)
• The Rape Of The Lock (Alexander Pope book)
• The Remains Of The Day (Kazuo Ishiguro novel and Anthony Hopkins movie)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Riddle Of The Sands (Erskine Childers book)
• The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
• The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (John Le Carre novel)
• The Story Of Tracy Beaker (children's story by Jacqueline Wilson)
• The Tenderness Of Wolves (Stef Penney book)
• The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCollough book)
• The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Wind in the Willows (children's book by Kenneth Grahame)
• The Winters Tale
• The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins book)
• The man, the myth, the legend
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• Thereby hangs a tale
• Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There (Lewis Carroll book)
• Throw the book at someone
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• To cut a long story short
• To infinty and beyond (line from the movie Toy Story)
• To make a long story short
• Toy Story (Tom Hanks movie)
• Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson book)
• Truth is stranger than fiction
• Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray book)
• Vicky Angel (children's book by Jacqueline Wilson)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy book)
• Watership Down (Richard Adams book)
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver book)
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• What becomes a legend most? (Blackglama Great Lakes Mink advertising slogan)
• What's The Story Morning Glory? (Oasis album)
• Winnie the Pooh (children's book by A A Milne)
• Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte book)
• Wuthering Heights (Merle Oberon / Laurence Olivier movie)
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover