Christmas Books

[Darwins Selection]

Have any of you ever been to Hay on Wye?  

Haven't mastered the Sat Nav yet then?

[Barman]

It was rather an overabundance of choice. There were a couple of good tat shops and an extrememly good fudge emporium though.

[snigger] Imagine working there... 

[Darwins Selection]

It was rather an overabundance of choice. There were a couple of good tat shops and an extrememly good fudge emporium though.

[snigger] Imagine working there... 

In "goods out" perchance?

[Barman]

It was rather an overabundance of choice. There were a couple of good tat shops and an extrememly good fudge emporium though.

[snigger] Imagine working there... 

In "goods out" perchance?

Indeed...

[Sour Puss]

Have any of you ever been to Hay on Wye? I can thoroughly recomend that all book lovers visit. Amazing place.

  I was banned after my last visit, apparently it is bad form to bring home more books than the local library could hold.    I didn't, he exaggerated as normal, I have told him a million times not to, but does he take any notice.

Sister wench would like some of the books I found up there, quite rare and difficult to source.  I love Hay on Wye or as the locals call it in the summer Way on Hi! 

[Snoopy]

"Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicholson" very good with many behind the scenes peep at key events of the first half of the 1900's.
Moving onto "Portrait of a Marriage" written by his eldest son Nigel. Fascinating insight into how life was for the priviledged, answering the whys and wherefores of Nicholson and, of course, Vita Sackville West (His wife). Some good pictures of Sissinghurst Castle too.

[Snoopy]

Postie has just delivered Tom Diberg's book. Wife has gone to visit her mother on the East Coast, won't be back until tomorrow evening. The Boys are watching a stack of DVDs they got for Christmas and the Teenage Hormone Heap is in her bedroom, laptop over heating, as she tries to do three weeks worth of homework before Tuesday.

I think I shall light a fire in the sitting room, order a pizza for their lunch and settle down for a read. 

[Nick]

Let me know what you think. I haven't bought it yet. Bought Charles Nicholl's The Lodger, instead

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lodger-Shakespeare-Silver-Street/dp/0713998903/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199449724&sr=1-1

[Snoopy]

They did that one on the Beeb (Radio Four) either as the "Book at Bedtime" or the "Woman's Hour serial" a couple of weeks before Christmas. Enjoyable and intriguing I thought at the time but then forgot it until now.
The Tom Driberg is very mush a used book but for £2.49 what can one expect. It has come from a "library sale" (Kirkleess to be exact) at some time in its history.

[Nick]

I read it in one sitting. Fascinating!!