Recent Acquisitions #40

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Husband came home with Out of the Dolls House: The Story of Women in the Twentieth Century by Angela Holdsworth. Looks like the charity shop might have been trying to get rid of it, as it's marked down from £4 to £2. A book I've heard of but never seen around before. Nice.

Recent Acquisitions #41

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Good haul today, from the bookshop and charity shops as well as a fun tour of the flea market where I acquired a new penknife.

A Brief History of Fighting Ships by David Davies;
The Chequer Board by Nevil Shute (slightly foxed);
A History of British Serial Killing by David Wilson;
Growing Up and Growing Old in Ancient Rome by Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence;
In Search of the Edge of Time by John Gribbin;
The If Game by Catherine Storr;
Confessions of a Police Constable by PC Matt Delito;
Friday's Child and The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer.

Plus a couple of books for my dad and husband got a few books as well! Phew.

Beautiful weather, too, and new leaves on the hopeful trees.

The Book Barge

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Fed up with city life, Sarah Henshaw quit her job as an entertainment journalist in London and went in search of something different.

What's Beyond Diversity? An Undiscovered Country.

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Anika Noni Rose put it perfectly in Vanity Fair this month: “There are so many writers of color out there, and often what they get when they bring their books to their editors, they say, ‘We don’t relate to the character.’ Well it’s not for you to relate to!"