ABC book sale loot

Pile of books I bought in the ABC sale

Above is the pile of books I bought in the ABC book sale: five euros per kilo of books, bring large bags. All of this cost me twentyfive euros, which is not bad for thirteen books. From top to bottom:

  • The Edge of Reason — Melinda Snodgrass. This looked okayish and it’s a writer I haven’t read anything from so I took a punt
  • Wyrdest Link — Pratchett and Langford: Discworld quiz book
  • Africa –John Reader. One volume history of the continent
  • The Extremes — Christopher Priest
  • The Cretan Runner — George Psychoundakis. A classic schlachtbummeler book, about the occupation of Crete in WWII
  • The Vengeance of Rome — Michael Moorcock. Last of the Colonel Pryat Quartet
  • Mythago Wood — Robert Holdstock. Read this in the library decades ago, this is the twentyfifth anniversay edition
  • A Distant Mirror — Barbara Tuchman. Replacement copy as mine had split in half
  • Beat Master’s Planet — Andre Norton. Collection of two classic novels, best known for inspiring the not that bad Marc Singer movie
  • Tiptree Award Anthology Vol. 2
  • Whoops — John Lanchester: I recognised his name from his articles about the economic crisis in the LBR; this is the book treatment of same
  • The Half-Made World — Felix Gilman. A much discussed book in sf&f circles
  • Penny Arcade vol. 2 More reprints of the webcomic