Recent Acquisitions

When I arrived home from London earlier this week I was greeted to a number of book parcels, which cheered me some after a dreadful train (well, six trains) journey and five-hour delay due to signal failure on the west-coast and and then a smashed car window awaiting us. There are a couple more proof [...]

Library Loot

It’s been a few weeks since my last Library Loot post as I am attempting to catch up on the loot I have already acquired. Some books have been returned unread recently as I attempt to conquer an overwhelming immediate to-be-read pile; I did consider a blank slate but there are a few of the [...]

July's People

July’s People by Nadine Gordimer, her imagined end to apartheid through civil war, was banned in South Africa after its publication in 1981; her predicted end was a violent revolution in which blacks are killing whites in order to regain control of the country and overturn the system of racial segregation. Bam and Maureen Smales, [...]

Recent Acquisitions

A few books have dropped through the letter-box of Paperback Reader abode over the last week and, at the time of going to press, I have read one of them with a review forthcoming. I spotted Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham in a bookshop recently and was instantly intrigued as it was a title [...]