Free books

Right, according to my father, I can’t bring “all those books” to his place when I move back in.  So here’s a list of what’s being got rid of, if you want anything let me know in a comment (please, I’d rather that than emails or whathaveyou – means I can keep track easier!) and I’ll pop it into the post for you.  Send me a cheque of however much the postage is, plus £2 for P&P and we’ll be sorted!  If you’re some sort of random person who’s stumbled onto my blog (hi, btw *waves*), I would kindly request that you send the cheque in advance because I can’t afford to lose the money on postage if you turn out to be…um…how do I put this nicely?  Forgetful?  If you live locally to me, am happy to drop them off cost-free.

I’m getting taking anything that hasn’t been claimed to a charity shop on 18th/19th September, so that’s your deadline for deciding what you want, folks.

On to the list!  It’s in alphabetical order by author, so everything available by each person is grouped together.  First come, first served – by comment only.  Anything crossed out has been claimed already.

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• Beowulf: A Verse Translation by Michael Alexander
• Film History, Theory and Practice by Robert C Allen & Douglas Gomery
• Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance by John Arden
• Galileo’s Finger by Peter Atkins
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Business by Iain Banks (hardcover)
• Dead Air by Iain Banks (hardcover)
• Test Your Cat by EM Bard
• The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
• Endgame by Samuel Beckett
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory by Bennett and Royle
• The Naughtiest Girl Collection by Enid Blyton (hardcover)
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
• Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
• Steal the Dragon by Patricia Briggs
• Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
• The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature by Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Pritchard (has post-its)
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
• Wise Children by Angela Carter
• The Miller’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• Beowulf by Howell D Chickering Jr
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke
• The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
• What A Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
• First Frost edited by Charlotte Cole
• Beowulf by Kevin Crossley-Holland
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• Geisha by Liza Dalby
• A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss (can’t find the same version on Amazon, but it has “Fabulous Flaps and Peel-Off Stickers)
• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
• Short Short Stories by Dave Eggers
• Adam Bede by George Eliot
• Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman
• Light in August by William Faulkner
• The Book of the Banshee by Anne Fine
• The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
• Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler
• Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
• The Mystery of Things by AC Grayling
• Power & Greed by Phillipe Gigantés (uncorrected book proof)
• Caleb Williams by William Godwin
• Hidden Histories – Granta 85
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory
• Science: A History by John Gribbin
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
• Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (if you take this one, don’t read the blurb on the back, it’s truly spoilerific)
• Little Miss Somersault by Roger Hargreaves
• Mr Dizzy by Roger Hargreaves
• Mr Men A Christmas Carol by Roger Hargreaves
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris
• Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
• Pompeii by Robert Harris
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
• The 13th Apostle by Richard & Rachael Heller
• How To Be Happy by Liz Hoggard (hardcover)
• Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Modern Girl’s Guide to Getting Hitched by Sarah Ivens
• Eighteenth-Century English Poetry by Nalini Jain and John Richardson
• Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• Angels by Marian Keyes
• Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (uncorrected book proof)
• Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
• Libertine Plays of the Restoration edited by Gillian Manning
• Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe
• Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez (hardcover)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (hardcover)
• Crystal Line by Anne McCaffrey
• The Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
• Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey
• Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey
• Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
• Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey (a bit bashed all over)
• Get off the Unicorn by Anne McCaffrey
• Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey
• Pegasus In Flight by Anne McCaffrey
• Sunshine by Robin McKinley
• The Weir by Conor McPherson
• Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales by Herman Melville
• Screenwriting for Narrative Film and Television by William Miller
• Living and Working in America by Steve Mills
• Winnie-The-Pooh by AA Milne
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
• Beowulf by Edwin Morgan
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Gospel According To Chris Moyles by Chris Moyles (hardcover)
• The Story of the Amulet by E Nesbit
• Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (hardcover)
• Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (signed, dedicated to someone called “Jenney” *eyeroll*)
• Along Came A Spider by James Patterson
• An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
• Stigmata by Phyllis Perry
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Final Friends Trilogy by Christopher Pike (14th birthday present to me from Raihanah, as the inscription makes clear)
• Six Characters in Search of An Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
• Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen
• Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (hardcover)
• Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett
• Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett (hardcover)
• Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett (hardcover)
• Is This What You Want edited by Kate Pullinger
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
• From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendall
• D.I.Y. Dentistry by Andy Riley
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (the only book my cat has ever attacked, it looks like I’ve stapled the corners of the cover repeatedly. My cat has good taste)
• The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Austerlitz by WG Sebald
• The Emigrants by WG Sebald
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (hardcover)
• Great Apes by Will Self (signed, to me)
• The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (signed, to me)
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (very old hardcover)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
• Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
• Unless by Carol Shields
• Daughters of Decadence edited by Elaine Showalter
• A Mad World, My Masters by John Simpson (slightly bashed spine)
• The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom by Alexander McCall Smith
• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
• Binary 2 – The Vaccination/Andy Warhol’s Dracula by Michael Marshall Smith/Kim Newman
• Don’t Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
• Three Plays by August Strindberg
• Perfume by Patrick Suskind
• Waterland by Graham Swift
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (hardcover)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan (hardcover)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
• The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
• The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by Andrew Thomson – fourth edition
• The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
• The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur (again)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Extinction Club by Robert Twigger
• Girls’ Night In edited by Fiona Walker et al
• 1700: Scenes From London Life by Maureen Waller
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
• Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner (*snorfle*)
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
• Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
• The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
• The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
• Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
• Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
• Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
• n.p. by Banana Yoshimoto
• Bluff Your Way in Philosophy
• A Career Handbook for TV, Radio, Film, Video & Interactive Media
• Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies
• The Gold Guide to Visiting Venice
• The Hutchinson Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary
• Pocket Oxford Dictionary
• The Rough Guide to Prague – sixth edition
• The Vital Guide to Combat Guns and Infantry Weapons (a very odd gift from a colleague from ages ago)

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