[Chris O'Carroll]

Bleak House at Pooh Corner and The Turn of the Screwtape Letters. Damn, I wish I'd thought of those. I'm working on something about Gone with the Wind in the Willows, which might shape up all right. Of course, merging two books doesn't necessarily require us to seize on a pair of overlapping titles, does it? Any two madly mismatched authors could have comic potential. Karl Marx and Jane Austen? John Milton and Charles Darwin? E.L. James and Beatrix Potter?

[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by Chris O'Carroll

Of course, merging two books doesn't necessarily require us to seize on a pair of overlapping titles, does it?

It's certainly not a requirement, but where possible, I think it adds to the fun! In fact, devising such titles is perhaps more amusing than coming up with the synopsis. What on earth can I do with Sir Leicester Dedlock and Piglet?

[Adrian Fry]

I've sidestepped the whole title thing and plumped for combining Anthony Trollope's The Warden and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

[Rob Stuart]

I was wondering about doing the Seven Very Hungry Caterpillars of Wisdom.

[Adrian Fry]

Brilliant, Rob! I think Lucy might have missed a trick not setting the merged titles as a comp in itself. It's the probably more the Washington Post's line of country, though.

[John Whitworth]

Right Ho, Dracula. Now what happens in this Bertie Wooster story?

[Adrian Fry]

Wide Sargasso Seabiscuit
The Unbearable Lightness of Jude the Obscure
Three Men in A Suitable Boy