I haven’t told you about my latest book acquisitions for simply ages. I went to a book sale today at a local church hall, and came away with a bagful, so I thought it was an ideal time to share what’s new on the bookshelves at Gaskell Towers …
Pile, the first – my haul from the booksale…
Pile, the second – mostly bought plus a couple of review copies…
- A Rich Full Death
by Michael Dibdin – not an Aurelio Zen novel, this one is set in 19th C Florence and features poet Robert Browning.
- Crippen
by John Boyne, a fictional account of the notorious murderer, my next book to review for the Transworld book club.
- Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century
by John Crace – a collection of his wonderfully funny ‘Digested Read’ columns from the Guardian.
- Greybeard (S.F. Masterworks)
by Brian Aldiss – he was at the Kennington (nr Oxford) Literary Festival last week. I couldn’t go, but got a signed book from the bookshop later.
- The Last Werewolf
by Glen Duncan. Heard a lot about this one, and it sounds my kind of book!
- Midwinterblood
by Marcus Sedgwick – a new book from him is always a treat to look forward to. A love story across the centuries, for teens and upwards.
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs. This novel which combines text with vintage photographs could be a gimmick, but it was intriguing enough to pick up…
- Death Comes to Pemberley
by P D James. It’s rare that I pluck up courage to ask a publisher for a review copy of a book, but the minute I heard about the Baroness’s latest, I couldn’t resist. Set after P&P, Lizzie and D’Arcy are married and when a distraught Lydia arrives at the ball saying that Wickham has been murdered, they have to solve the crime. Thanks to Faber. This will be the next book I read!
Have you read any of the above?
What have you added to your TBR piles lately?
Do tell…
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by Zane Grey – another classic Western
by David Malouf, a reworking of some of scenes from Homer’s Iliad.
by Nicholas Griffin, set in 18th century London, it follows an anatomist and his student and their murky dealings with the underworld.
by Jane Gardam, a short novel about a young woman becoming a writer after the war.
by R F Delderfield. Seriously chunky, the first part of his ‘A horseman riding by’ trilogy, chronicling the life and times of a Victorian squire and the start of the 20th century.
by Herman Wouk.
Pile, the second – mostly bought plus a couple of review copies…
That is a new P D James is it???
Mystica, It’s out in November – a crime sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – utterly irrestistible.
They all look *amazing* and I am completely jealous.
A long list. Read none. enjoy the read.
I love Brideshead Abbreviated! Please review Marjorie Morningstar when you have read it – I remember seeing it in a charity shop ages ago and regretted not buying it ever since!
What a lovely stock of books – I will be acquiring the Marcus Sedgwick as soon as I can, possibly using the excuse of my daughter’s birthday to splash out on a hardback!
I read both the Delderfield and the Jane Gardam years and years ago but remember loving them both – the Delderfield in particular is a wonderful book to get lost in and I remember reading the trilogy as fast as possible and then feeling bereft! I still have them all somewhere – maybe I will re-read one day although with the size of my tbr mountain range I’m not sure how long it will be before I get around to it!
I haven’t read Marjorie Morningstar but I have read Herman Wouk’s Winds of War and War and Remembrance and can thoroughly recommend them both – he is another writer who really draws you in to a story so you find it hard to put the book down. They are absolutely huge though – my copy of War and Remembrance was in hardback and I nearly sprained my wrist reading it!
Your comments are always so reassuring Liz. Thank you.