Ian Mckewan,Bryan Gallagher,Johanna Ruth, Virginia Nicholson,Rhonda Byrne, a book about "bees"the Grauniad suggested(which Mrs Mart is stuck into already) and a fantastic Roy of the Rovers comic book, which is just soo funny with a forward by Gary Linekar.
Embarrasingly for me, a band that I would not sign, although they loved my coffee, were playing downstairs in the bookshop.

I love books, which one does one open first?

McEwan, Mart, if it's On Chesil Beach (nice and short).

I bought today two beautiful Dickens books I didn't know he'd written - one a collection of ghost stories he carried in his magazine (and wrote a couple himself) and the other Mrs Lirriper (another collection from "All The Year Round".

I'm currently buried happily in Gerry Seymour's latest Timebomb.

I`m hooked on Chesil Beach, it amuses me as I know the area.
Jeez, McKewan is a good writer. So detailed,the guy could sell you a mouldy bun!( that said, his knowledge of Chesil (or slight lack of)is amusing me by it plain wrongness.

Galaxy Book of the Year, or whatever, invent a city called Melchester if in doubt.

Googling Dickens to find out more about Mrs Lirriper I discover he wrote a novel and play with his great friend Wilkie Collins (another of my favourite writers) called No Thoroughfare.

I'm off to buy it in the morning.

Actually re my little mention of "Melchester". the first couple of pages in the "Roy of The Rovers" book (which is soooooooo good!), does sum up the loneliness of the journalist, which maybe we should take on board when we slag off our media people.