Birthday Acquisitions 2014

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It was a good year for books:

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard;
Nylon Angel by Marianne de Pierres;
Boneland by Alan Garner;
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff;
We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen;
Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, edited by Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older;
Pompeii by T. Pedrazzi;
Tommy's Ark: Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War by Richard Van Emden;
To Walk in the Dark: Military Intelligence During the English Civil War 1642-1646 by John Ellis;
Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies by Morag G. Kerr
and
Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Plus, as a bonus, I got a free book via My Independent Bookshop:

Think Like A Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.