I managed to buy quite a lot of books while on our recent UK road trip. We stopped off at Penrith in the north of England. There’s a nice wee secondhand bookshop there just across from the old church. They had quite a lot of Elinor M Brent-Dyer Chalet School books, just paperbacks though.  I’m on a bit of a re-visit to that series, a nostalgia trip I suppose, so I bought:

Mary Lou at the Chalet School

The Chalet School Wins the Trick

Excitements at the Chalet School

Chalet School Fete

In various other towns I bought:

Viking’s Dawn by Henry Treece

They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple

Another World by Pat Barker

Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore

Madame Claire by Susan Ertz

An End to Running by Lynne Reid Banks

The Measure of Malice – Scientific Detective Stories ed. Martin Edwards

Murder in a Heatwave  – (classic crime mysteries for the holidays)

Then we found a lovely old bookshop in Bradford on Avon (Ex Libris) old and new books, I bought three nice hardback Miss Read books:

A Country Christmas

Summer at Fairacre

Farewell to Fairacre

Then in a National Trust secondhand bookshop I bought a couple of non-fiction books:

Beastly Bath (Irreverent quotes about Bath from its greatest visitors)

Goodnight Children Everywhere (Voices of Evacuees)

Have you read any of them?