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The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham (re-read, occasioned by buying a 1st ed in the Oxfam bookshop on Park Street when we went there with [livejournal.com profile] pellegrina)

Tyntesfield House guidebook, National Trust (the first time I have read this new edition, purchased when we went there on New Year's Day)

Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination, ed Dale Townshend (the book of the exhibition at the British Library)

ETA: Just started:
Dragons and Warrior Daughters: Fantasy Stories by Women Writers, ed Jessica Yates (after seeing a copy on MastermindChampion's shelves)

And leafing through:
Rough Guide to the Highlands and Islands

Date: 2015-01-04 08:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookwormsarah.livejournal.com
I'm reading John Wyndham short stories (Seeds of Time) at the moment and finding them deliciously eerie.

Date: 2015-01-04 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I think I have read those, although not for some time.

Date: 2015-01-05 03:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lookbookstoreco.livejournal.com
I will try to read this <3

Date: 2015-01-05 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Which one?

Date: 2015-01-05 06:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com
Wyndham is the Neville Shute of SF, isn't he? Solid, workmanlike, plotty stories, with some galling oh-come-on-author! sexism thrown in.

Date: 2015-01-05 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Indeed (although NS also wrote SF ... )

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