Courtesy of Arty Bees in Wellington:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by Bill Shakespeare. In the old Oxford Shakespeare / World Classics edition. The one I quixotically started collecting just after they started doing them in different, less appealing colours.
- Tears of The Salamander and A.K., by Peter Dickinson. Dickinson is one of the great British children's writers. And he's still alive and still, intermittently, publishing.
And from Trade Me:
- Elidor, by Alan Garner. Another great British children's writer. I read his books devotedly as a child, and am now buying them for my own.
- The Devil's Cup, by Stewart Lee Allen. How coffee invented the Renaissance.
- Collapse, by Jared Diamond. Because the End Of Times is always interesting.
- Monte Cassino, by Matthew Parker. In my teens I read Sven Hassel's gory account of the battle of Monte Cassino and have been slightly fascinated by it ever since.
- How To Read Marx, by Peter Osborne. Not one of the silly 'X for Beginners' type books, but a genuine attempt to place Marx's economic and philosophical ideas into context and critique them from a modern standpoint. Or something like that.
Any bets on when any of these tomes may be read?
