Dark evenings and a need for sleep. Neither are very conducive with blogging. Anyhoo. Here are my literary purchases from November- and all of them were 50p each:
What a truly terrible quality image. For that I apologise.
- Marcel Proust – Swann’s Way
- Theodore Fontane – Effi Briest
- Sam Selvon – The Lonely Londoners
- Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- John Mortimer – Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained, and The Sound of Trumpets
- Ernst Junker – Storm of Steel
- Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell – Muddle Earth
- Eric Hobsbawm – The Age of Capital 1848-1875, The Age of Empire 1875-1914
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery – Southern Mail/Night Flight
Yes, you may have guessed that ‘Muddle Earth’ is a children’s book- I own it in hardback, but don’t really fancy reclaiming this from my parents’, and so intended to hunt out a cheap soft back. I didn’t expect to come across one quite so soon, to be honest. It’s worth getting just for the illustrations- I love Chris Riddell’s images in everything he illustrates- but it also helps that it is a ridiculously entertaining read. So what if it’s children’s fiction. I don’t believe that exists as a genre or a category anyway. But that’s for another post.
Electric Puppet 