It’s been an exciting couple of weeks Chez Book Whisperer! My NBF has been a busy boy again recently and brought me all sorts of goodies. For anyone with a nervous disposition please look away now.
From publishers / authors
Aren’t they beautiful? It’s amazing how long I can stare lovingly at a pile of books for, really it is. The following have been sent to me as review copies by publishers or authors (thank you all very much) and also won two of them in a twitter competition.
So what did I get?
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo (currently reading and LOVING it)
Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris
A Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan
Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman
The Fallen by Mark Terry
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
Timecatcher by Marie-Lousie Fitzpatrick
Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker
Jane’s Fame by Claire Harman
The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen by Arielle Eckastut
Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal by Chloe Schama
Pearl of China by Anchee Min
Picked up at a church sale for £1.00 for the whole bag
Yes, that’s right, you read that correctly! The church hall down the road has a used book sale (some of which look like they haven’t even been read!) and this week they had a sign saying “Fill up a carrier bag with books for £1.00″. Erm, OK then!
The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillippa Gregory (brand new hardback)
The Other Half Lives by Sophie Hannah (brand new hardback and signed!)
A Woman’s Life by Guy de Maupassant
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
I Claudius by Robert Graves
Hovel in the Hills by Elizabeth West
Stories for Summer by various (inc. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, D H Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Oscar Wilde etc)
Second Fiddle by Mary Wesley
Portrait of the Artist by James Joyce
Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer
They Were Defeated by Rose Macauley
A Woman of Cairo by Noel Barber
Books I have bought or swapped online
You know, a girl’s gotta treat herself!
Esther Waters by George Moore (love my Victorian classics)
The Captive of Kensington Palace by Jean Plaidy (want to know more about the lady on the throne)
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Waloo
Jane Eyre’s Daughter by Elizabeth Newman
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain by John O’Farrell
The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles (given to me as a gift by the lovely Tisha who stayed with me last week on her travels round Europe)
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