Wednesday, October 13, 2010

The (bookish) pleasures of home

So there are some good things about coming back to England, and many of them are books. Here in particular are what has recently floated to the top of my TBR…

The Booker prize winning best seller Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, Iain Pears’ latest offering Stone’s Fall (I couldn’t help it, I loved An Instance of the Fingerpost) and the absurdly titled Fanny by Gaslight by Michael Sadleir. At the less well known end of the spectrum, I have Clare Cameron’s Rustle of Spring, Snakes and Ladders by Marjory Todd and the wonderfully titled Surplus Women by G. C. Pain….