Fun and games

  

  London readers in search of a bargain may like to pop into Heywood Hill in Curzon Street before 26th. January and have a rummage in their basement as they are offering 40% off a large selection of secondhand and antiquarian stock including items from the libraries of Anthony Powell, Edward Heath and others.

   

    If you haven't already seen it, do read the poem Oatmeal by Galway Kinnell which Nancy very kindly incorporated in her comment on the breakfast post earlier in the week, and another lovely food-related poem, Mother N by Adèle Geras which you can find here.

    Fans of Angela Thirkell (and I am one now having read three books of hers in quick succession last month) will be pleased to hear that Virago Modern Classics are to be bringing out four more of her novels. Pomfret Towers, described by the publisher as having “a pleasingly light-hearted Downton-esque storyline about the marriage plans of a young heir to the entailed family estate”, will be published in November 2013, while The Brandons, Summer Half and August Folly will follow in summer 2014.

   

    Lastly today, this is very tongue-in-cheek this, but follow the link to find out whether you are on the Wolf Hall spectrum, and if so, where!

Comments

[Adam Pollard]

We're in London next week, wo will be rummaging away! Oh, and I think I'm probably somewhere between WH4 & WH5...

[Cornflower]

Good luck with the rummage, Adam!

[Rebecca]

As a Thirkell fan and an audiobook addict, I would be delighted to see more of her books coming out as audios! Nadia May has done The Brandons and Cheerfulness Breaks Out--what a pleasure to listen to! Maybe the reissue will prompt more recordings: I'd be delighted!

[Cornflower]

If the re-issues are attracting a new readership (as seems to be the case) then hopefully more audiobooks will follow.

[Dark Puss]

I'm at WH0 on the spectrum.

[Cornflower]

Thought you might be!