Monday 20 December 2010

An update

Help - I never realised ISBNs have the same number of digits and format as phone number and so if you want to dial an ISBN (not recommended) you might be surprised who you reach!!!

Bringing my reading list up-to-date. These are the bookd I have read since the last time I posted:-

Anthony Trollope – “The Warden” ***** ***** (for the second time)
First of the Barchester series

“Barchester Towers ***** **** (for the second time)

Dr Thorne ***** *** (for the second time)

The Small House at Allington ***** **** (for the second time)

Bernard Cornwell – “Redcoat” ***** ****

Thomas Hardy “The Mayor of Casterbridge” ***** ** (for the second time)

Thomas Hardy - “Far from the Madding Crowd” ***** **** (for the second time)

Paul Doherty – “Murder most Holy” ***** ***

One of the sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan

Veronica Stallwood – “Oxford Proof” ***** ***

Janie Bolitho – “Plotted in Cornwall” ***** ****

Ken Follett – “Paper Money” ***** ***

Pamela Oldfield – “The Great Plague” ***** *

Amanda Quick – “The Paid Companion” ***** **** Regency romance

Terry Pratchett – Truckers” ***** ****

Terry Pratchett – “Diggers” ***** ****

Terry Pratchett – “Wings” ***** ****

Terry Pratchett – “Carpet People” ***** ****

Emma Dent Diary Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham 1998 2nd ed 1999
ISBN 1 873877 28 5 56pp Selected writings from an exhibition at Sudeley Castle

Ronald Blythe "The Penguin Book of Diaries" 1989
0 14 012231 1 365pp

William Allingham 'A Diary 1824-1889' 1907
Introduced by John Julius Norwich. 0 14 057025 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0 14 057025      end_of_the_skype_highlighting 404pp

Henry Kelsall Aspinall 'Birkenhead and its surroundings' 1903
373p

Margaret Harris & Judith Johnston – the Journals of George Eliot 1998
0 521 57412 9 448pp

P J Harris 'The Movers and Shakers of Victorian England' 2006
10 1 90562 406 9 160pp

Colin Twist "A History of Liverpool Parks" 2000
1 872839 06 1 72pp

Richard Whittington-Egan "Liverpool Murders" 2009
9781904438885 381pp

Fred H Crossley "Cheshire" 1949
376pp

Ian Boumphrey "Yesterday's Liverpool" c2007
1-899241-25-6 128pp

Frank O'Reilly "The Liverpool Firebobbies" 2008
Vol 1 978-1-906823-08-5 312pp

Peter Aughton "Liverpool – A People's History" 1990
0-948789-43-3 232pp

S G Kendall "Farming Memoirs of a West Country Yeoman" 1944
247pp

Valerie Porter "Times Past in the Countryside" 2009
978-0-276-44404-3 256pp

Andrew Kerr-Jarrett "Life in the Victorian age" 1993
0 276 42121 3 160pp

Helen Kelsall & Keith Kelsall "Diary of a Victorian Miss on Holiday" 1992
1-8747128-00-8 156pp