January.Bleurrrghh. I know it’s nearly over, but still....the weather’s horrible, the bills are piling up and it’s hard to feel positive about anything.
Still, we at the White Horse Bookshop are determined not to be downhearted! There are lots of great reads for the New Year, special offers on art materials, and a new selection of greeting cards.
Don’t forget that if you’re planning a holiday to cheer yourself up (lucky you) we have an excellent range of guide books for most places in the known world (and some fairly obscure places) . If you can’t get away we also have lots of excellent travel writing, classic and contemporary, for those who can only dream...
Things that are getting us to utter little excited squeaks as we unpack the boxes are –
· the paperback edition of The Hare with Amber Eyes,
· the paperback edition of The Man in the Wooden Hat (Jane Gardam – one of our very favourite writers). This is the companion volume to Old Filth, they can be read entirely independently of each other, but why would you deny yourself the pleasure of reading the parallel stories?
· the Bloomsbury Group collection – lovely re-issues of “ a wonderful new series of lost novels from the early twentieth century, books recommended by readers for readers, being brought back into print for a new audience.”
Our most popular title this week is My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin, closely followed by Nigel Farndale’s The Blasphemer. Readers have also been very enthusiastic about The Auschwitz Violin, by Maria Angels Anglada, a Catalan writer.
And finally, I’m hopping up and down with glee at the arrival of We Had It So Good by the completely brilliant Linda Grant.