Coming back from acupuncture on Friday, the Abbey had a sign outside saying ` Book Fair` ; yay !
I got 25 books for £20.50, most of them in lovely hardbacks ( some of those were leatherette ones with embossed gold squiggles ), and bumped into a couple of my neighbours who were also indulging their bookishness. One of them asked about Xiao-Xiao, `cos she`s a cat person and hadn`t seen her for a while investigating her garden, aww. There was a Louise Penny book there which I`d recently read, but I got the other neighbour to try it, after extolling its virtues.
I`m still so pleased with the books - some of them were books which I`ve thought about getting, and some are from authors that I like.
The new books are ...
2666 - Roberto Bolano
A Tree grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Key of Light - Nora Roberts
The Light-Hearted Quest - Ann Bridge
The Towers of Trebizond - Rose Macauley
Maigret and Monsieur Charles, Maigret and the Dosser, Maigret and the Millionaires, Maigret and the Gangsters - Georges Simenon
A Confusion of Princes - Garth Nix
The Snare of the Hunter - Helen MacInnes
Agent in Place - Helen MacInnes
Short Stories - EM Forster
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
One Shot - Lee Child
Blood and Beauty - Sarah Dunant
High Road to China - Jon Cleary
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
The Limpopo Academy of Private Investigation - Alexander McCall Smith
One Night in Winter - Simon Sebag Montefiore
Little Indiscretions - Caremn Posadas
The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse
Jolie Blon`s Bounce - James Lee Burke
The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man - HG Wells