06 Sep 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 9 Comments. Tagged books

books

Just back from the annual Lifeline book fair at Port Kembla Racecource. Boxed all the books we don’t want any more, drove them to the fair, donated them, went inside and emerged a couple of hours later having bought another 20 kilos of books to replace them. So much for all that naked shelf space I was fantasizing about… That 20 kilos is: Spy Catcher, Spies – the secret agents who changed the course of history, The Last Empire by Gore Vidal, Eats Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss, The Book of Curses: True Tales of Voodoo, Hoodoo and Hex, Espionage: spies and secrets, Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy by Len Deighton, Striped Holes by Damien Broderick, Daphne du Maurier’s Classics of the Macabre, James Bond: The Man and his World, Son of Sherlock Holmes: the woman in red (graphic novel), Starring Sherlock Holmes: the definitive illustrated history of Sherlock Holmes on screen, Robert Louis Stevenson: his best pacific writings, Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others, and finally, the jewel in the crown:

Blackie’s Geographical Readers number VII The oceans and the planetary system. Published around 1884 in response to the new education code, its contents include ‘A ship on fire at sea’, ‘A lonely spot in the Atlantic’, and ‘The Strait of Sunda. A Volcanic eruption’.

The sci fi and fantasy tables were scattered with novels by our friends. One year I picked up a pristine copy of one of my own Agog! Press titles that had gone out of print. For some reason I was chuffed to have found it in with the literature rather than the spec fic.