Recent Acquisitions #47

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Am tired and hot and hot and tired so this will be a perfunctory list from today's trawl of Waterstones and charity shops and the newly-discovered (by me) stall that sells secondhand SFF. Oh yeah!

I only managed to buy one book I already have. Ahem. It will not be listed.

Waterstones:

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (yes, the book everyone's talking about; so sue me);
Race for the South Pole by Roland Huntford (a comparison of the diaries of Scott and Amundsen)
and
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin.

At some point, you have to stop picking up books in Waterstones. That point is usually when you see the look on your husband's face.

Secondhand SFF stall:

(It was here that the mistake was made)

World's End by Joan D. Vinge;
The Byworlder by Poul Anderson;
Hellflower by George O. Smith;
The Palace of Eternity by Bob Shaw;
The Face in the Abyss by A. Merritt;
The Ragged World by Judith Moffett
and
Farthing by Jo Walton (not actually SFF).

Oh how I have missed picking up cheap secondhand paperbacks en masse and taking them home to try out new-to-me authors. Or finding another book by an author I love. Sigh.

The look on the guy's face when I handed him my treasures was delight. I'm guessing not many people wander in and buy a third of the stock.

Other secondhand book stall:

Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths by Orlando and Claudio Villas Boas
and
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America, translated by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson.

Charity shops:

Nobody's Child by Kate Adie
and
Extra Titanic: The Story of the Disaster in the Newspapers of the Day, from the collections of Eric Caren and Steve Goldman.

Really wanted to send that last one to Monissa, but it's Big and Heavy. So I guess it stays here until she comes visit.