Pete's Books

[skyring]

Friday was the opening day of the Lifeline Bookfair. I collected Ken from work and we were able to spend an hour or so browsing. Of course, we both headed for the travel section!

I picked up a few books, and trust me, this is restrained for me!

Susan Kurosawa, coasting: a year by the bay. Susan K and Graeme Blundell retreat from Sydney to the Central Coast. Hardback with DJ, signed by author.

Paul Theroux, grumpy railway traveller:
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries 1964-1984. HB with DJ
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean. Trade PB
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas. Mass market paperback
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific. Penguin MMPB
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China. Penguin

Folio:
Joan Sutherland,The Folio Book of Literary Puzzles.
Saki, Short Stories. HB, No slipcase.
Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress. HB/SC
Anthem for Doomed Youth: Poets of the Great War. HB/SC

Lonely Planet: Edinburgh 2002
The Rough Guide to Edinburgh 2002

Michael McGirr, Bypass, The Story of a Road, TPB
Tony Hawks, A Piano in the Pyrenees, PB
Edward Rutherfurd, Sarum. MMPB
Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Penguin

I'm pretty sure I've already got copies of the last three, but I can't lay my hands on them.

Comments

[madame-urushiol.livejournal.com]

And a steamer trunk to carry it all home in! Great selection you picked up there...

[alkaline-kiwi.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed.. and the Tony Hawks book you mentioned is (as far as I know) the only one of his I haven't read.

I'll be bringing some travel books to the convention with me, will let you have first look/pick before the road trip.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

"Piano" is yours! Hawks writes with a great deal of wit and humour, as you are no doubt aware, and I enjoyed this one immensely.

Not to the extent of wishing to move to rural France, of course, but it's nice to read about other folk having adventures.

This road trip is going to become the stuff of legend, you realise.

[alkaline-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Thanks :D

Think we will all be taking cameras so lots of photos of the trip and the convention.