You know what it’s like when you look forward to something for ages, you can almost guarantee that you’re going to be disappointed. Well that’s how I felt when I got to the library sale at the Adam Smith Theatre last Saturday.
Mind you after having perused my haul again – I’ve got a bit of a cheek not being happy with it, it’s just that I didn’t get anything which I had really been looking for.
So this is my haul:
The Borley Rectory Incident by Terrance Dicks
Morning Tide by Neil M Gunn
Faro’s Daughter by Georgette Heyer
The Foundling by Georgette Heyer
The Nonsuch by Georgette Heyer
Arabella by Georgette Heyer
Middlemere by Judith Lennox
Flambards by K M Peyton
Right Royal Friend by Nigel Tranter
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
I must admit that I prefer Heyer’s detective stories to her romances but I’ll get around to these ones sometime.
Nigel Tranter is a Scottish writer who writes good historical fiction.
I can hardly believe that I’ve not read To the Lighthouse yet.
I enjoyed Updike’s Rabbit series so I thought I’d give this one a go although it seems to be very different being about the king and queen of Denmark before the action of Shakespeare’s Hamlet begins.
Neil Gunn is another Scottish author of the 1930s.
I had meant to borrow something by Judith Lennox for a while now but hadn’t got around to it.
Flambards was a bit of pure serendipity because I had seen the book somewhere on the internet just a few days before and I hadn’t even realised till then that it was a book. I really enjoyed the series of that name when it was on the TV years ago. This was in the childrens section and I left it until late on before picking it up in case a kiddywink should want it – but it was left there looking forlorn so I didn’t feel that I was depriving anyone of it.
The Borley Rectory Incident is another junior library book and it’s written by the chap who wrote a lot of the Doctor Who books. Gordon went through a phase of wanting those books as bedtime stories and I just want to know what this one is like compared with them.
Now that I look at them all carefully I don’t know what I was moaning about at the beginning of this post, I’m quite pleased with my haul. Now I just need the time to read them all.
Borley Rectory! I love that place, which I understand burned down many years ago. When I was a teenager, I wanted to be an archaeologist or a parapsychologist. I read everything I could get my hands on about both. Borley Rectory, as I’m sure you know, was called ‘the most haunted house in England’, maybe in the world. When I wake up too early, I listen to Relic Radio on my Ipod, Strange Tales, to be exact, old radio broadcasts from when radio ruled. And, this morning, they mentioned Borley Rectory! How’s that for coincidence! Can’t wait to hear what you think of the book.
Joan,
That is what I call spooky! It is a book for kids but you’ve solved my problem of what to read next. It’s also going to be a quick read which is always good when the pile is so big.
I’ve never heard of Relic Radio, it sounds fascinating.