Amanda and I head for a coffee to Matlock, which is a few miles from us but has an Oxfam Bookshop. This second-hand shop was open to Peak Dragon books, which I have always missed as it only opens a few days a week, so catching it today was a bonus as it was a little gold mine. So what follows is the books I brought today as they have a three for five-pound deal.
As though I haven’t enough Josef Škvorecki over the years, he is one of the writers I have accumulated several books, but this is the first work of nonfiction by him I have got a collection of essay. Also love the old Faber covers.
I brought this book thinking it was a book that had been missed by this writer. Svevo was championed by James Joyce with his books Zeno’s Conscience I Have That and A Tree Grows Older, so when I got home, I found this is actually that book with a different US title
I am now going try and buy every Balzac that comes my way. Harlot High and Low collected four pieces Balzac nad collected into a single book and was part of his more significant work, Human Comedy.
Miookse and Gripes had talked about doing Carr’s mopunth in the country as a readalong this year, so I thought I’d like to try some of his other books I have How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup on my tbr and this was his second novel. It jumped out as it was about Cricket, during the war and there are few novels about cricket. Plus, I remember the Backlisted show talking about how quirky he was on an episode.
I was vaguely aware of Emanuel Livintoff, the Jewish writer who came from Russia to the East End and wrote this book about his childhood in the East End and how the Jewish community was when he was growing up in the twenties in London as it seemed to go well with another book I have been sent recently from Noir books East Broiadway to Whitechapel which is by the writer David Katz the fact the books follow journey to the UK from The US and Russia appealed to me so I will be reviewing these books soon.
Old Tony, as Tony’s reading list, covered this as his first book of 2025, so to see it so soon after I was captured by his review of it was a real turn-up for the books. Endo is also a writer I would like to read more from; I have just covered just once on the blog over the years.
So that was my ten-pound investment today, not a bad see; selection of books. I missed Oxfam but did call in the second chapter is a new bookshop in Matlock that has recently opened. They are the second shop to be opened by High Peak Bookshops. They also have a shop and Cafe in Buxton, which is worth a visit. They sell mainly remainder books, but there are always a few gems about, especially if you are into the more commercial fiction. I think it is a goldmine. But they also have a nice classics selection which I found this
A Gogol for this years classics reading. I hope to be back tot reviewing soon , I’ve just had a busy few weeks that has meant I am not reading a lot and also just had a number of things happening. I think I will go to the Oxfam bookshop next time as they are always a shop I tend to find books. Have you a local place with a few bookshops in it ?
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