Got Rice’s Architectural Primer by Matthew Rice from the library and bought Sea Room: An Island Life by Adam Nicolson and The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett
Category: Book Haul (Page 4 of 5)
Only bought the one book today – Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village – by Stephen Moss. I read it a couple of years ago, and thought is was fantastic, so pleased to have acquired a copy
Bought Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono and How the Marquis Got His Coat Back by Neil Gaiman today
Got Few and Far Between: On The Trail of Britain’s Rarest Animals by Charlie Elder from the Library and bought a copy of The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane, specially issued for Independent book Week.
Popped into a favourite second hand bookshop this afternoon ended up getting several
A la Mod by Ian Moore
Serge Bastarde ate my Bagette by John Drummer
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The restaurant at the end of the universe by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
So long and thanks for the fish by Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Truckers by Terry Pratchett
Wings by Terry Pratchett
And bought the new paperback of The Shepherds Crown by Terry Pratchett
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Thud by Terry Pratchett (Signed!!!!!)
Got Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt from the library too
Spent a lovely day wandering around some on London’s best bookshops yesterday. Went to Foyles, Stanfords, Waterstones, Hatchards and Daunts. Didn’t buy that many but did get
Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts
Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (signed)
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman (signed)
View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman (signed)
Hadn’t intending buying any books today. Ended up buying five…
In Siberia by Colin Thubron
Journey into Cypress by Colin Thubron
Badgerlands by Patrick Barkham
Ticket to Ride by Tom Chesshyre
The Beauty in the Beast by Hugh Warwick
Not bad for £7
These are the two books I bought when scouring the charity shops this morning:
Mirror to Damascus by Colin Thubron
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
Thubron is one of my favourite travel writers, and this is the last book of his that I haven’t read.
It is always nice getting free books though the post, even more so when they are as beautiful as this:
Got a review copy of Hunter Killer: Inside the lethal world of drone warfare by T. Mark McCurley through the post today and these from the library:
Around the Coast in Eighty Waves by Jonathan Bennett
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
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