New books: January

A bit late, but here’s January’s haul:

• Jerome K. Jerome –  Three Men in a Boat     £1.49
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn –  A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovic     99p
• Angela Carter –  The Bloody Chamber     49p
• Douglas Adams –  The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy     49p
• Dante –  New Life     50p
• Anthony Trollope –  The Warden     50p
• Richard Adams –  Watership Down     50p
• Edgar Allan Poe –  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe     25p

You may (or more likely) may not notice that I do already own copies of the Jerome and D. Adams books (seen on posts here and here), but these new copies are better: the first is an interesting Penguin Classics edition, with notes and an introduction, and the second is not the film tie-in edition with added photos and interviews, so is shorter and thus takes up less space.

Now, I also had two other books:

I will expand upon these in my next post!

The first new books of 2014

I had a rather lucky weekend in terms of books. Let’s just say that all of the books in this photo here…

…came to £3. They were ALL 25p each, which is not at all bad.

• R.A. Sydie –  Natural Women/Cultured Men: A Feminist Perspective on Sociological Theory
• Richard Fortey –  Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
• William Shakespeare –  The Tempest
• William Shakespeare –  King Lear
• Ben Jonson –  Volpone
• Erskine Childers –  The Riddle of the Sands
• Julian Barnes –  The Sense of an Ending
• Erich Maria Remarque –  All Quiet on the Western Front
• Jane Austen –  Sense and Sensibility
• Edgar Allan Poe –  The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• Toni Morrison –  The Bluest Eye
• Kate Chopin –  The Awakening and other stories