The last Monday before Christmas – funny to think that next Monday is Boxing Day! I promised to show you my haul from my Melbourne trip, so here it is. Do drop by Let Them Read Books, who is hosting this month for more mailbox fun. Melbourne has some great bookshops, from Dymocks to Readings to Reader’s Feast. There is also a great discount bookstore called All Books 4 Less (i.e. $5 or $10 for big books).
All bar Villain are from All Books 4 Less. I bought Villain from Readings as a giveaway for a Literary Blog Hop next year. Stay tuned and read my review here.
We have:
- City of Dark Hearts – James Conan (actually two people writing together)
- Remarkable Creatures – Tracy Chevalier (had this on my wishlist for ages)
- Once a Land Girl – Angela Huth (found out this is a sequel, can’t find the first book anywhere!)
- Villain – Shuichi Yoshida (love it)
- East End Angel – Carol Rivers
- The Debutante – Kathleen Tessaro
From Dymocks, 2 Richard Yates books (Collected Stories and A Good School) and The Group, my first Virago Modern Classic by Mary McCarthy. Readings had the final book to complete my Richard Yates collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness.
More $5 books:
- Tides of War – Stella Tillyard
- The Gallows Bird – Camilla Lackberg
- Half of the Human Race – Anthony Quinn (highly recommended by The Australian)
- Lasting Damage – Sophie Hannah
And finally, from my favourite movie, The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook. So glad I bought this – haven’t seen it anywhere back home.
What were your finds this week?
Sam Still Reading 
Nice selection!
Thank you!
What a gorgeous selection! I am happy to see another reader who loves Yates as much as me. I’ve read Remarkable Creatures and thought it was pretty good. Many of your other titles are “new to me”. enjoy
I love Richard Yates – think he’s seriously underrated. Have just read The Easter Parade (based on your review) and thoroughly enjoyed it. I love that he’s so true to life – the ups and the downs.
Fantastic Mailbox! All of those titles are new to me, but City of Dark Hearts and East End Angel caught my eye. That Sound of Music scrapbook looks aweome! Enjoy your new books!
I love The Sound of Music – I’m going to devour that book 🙂
It’ll be tough to decide which one to read first. Remarkable Creatures catches my eye.
That one is getting a lot of votes! I’ll put it on the top of the pile to remind me 🙂
A nice mixture in your mailbox, they all sound good.
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Thank you – my reading tastes are often sporadic!
Awesome mailbox! I see a lot of great-looking titles here. Happy reading!
Thank you! I’m sure I’ll enjoy them.
Wow great haul! Interesting covers in the lot too! Happy Reading and Merry Christmas. I am having my first book giveaway hop over and enter
Thank you! Merry Christmas to you too.
That’s a good selection of books you have there! I have yet to make my way up to the new Reader’s Feast store. Maybe I should do it one night after work.
I can’t wait to get to Reader’s Feast – planning to come over early for a conference just to check it out. Failing that, I plan to go during a lunch break!
I’ve been wanting to read Half of the Human Race for months now. Judging just by covers, several of these look intriguing to me.
Covers are always important to me – love looking at all the different ones!
I’d go for the Chevalier. I just realized that I left off Cloud Atlas from my list of books that came into the house. I bought it and probably should wrap it for under the tree. 😉
I just received another bunch of books for Christmas, so this pile will need to wait a bit (I always read my Christmas books straight away, not sure why)!
Hi, thanks for revealing your ideas in Mailbox Monday 19/12/11 – The Melbourne Edition Sam Still Reading. This is really a cool blog.