Today brings me a year deeper into middle-age, and I treated myself to a few hours of a long overdue ‘artist date’.
I took a bus ride to Lautoka, locally known as the ‘sugar city’ of Fiji because it houses the biggest sugar cane mill.
My main destination was Bargain Box for books, and I happily took advantage of their super special: 10 books for FJ$1!
The books were untidy piles on the shelves. As I looked through for any interesting ones, I thought about all the writers, who laboured over their works, got published, and whose books were now part of Bargain Box’ second-hand special.
Here are the books I bought, listed below, in no particular order.
- Is it about a Bicycle?, Oliver Crilly (Veritas, 2003)
- Corfu, Robert Dessaix (Picador, 2001)
- Anne of Avonlea, L. M. Montgomery (Angus ‘7 Robertson, 1980)
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (Pan Books, 1974)
- Kiss, Kiss, Roald Dahl (Penguin, 1981)
- Standing in Another Man’s Grave, Ian Rankin (Orion, 2012)
- Mohammed, Maxime Rodinson (Penguin, 1991)
- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carre (Sceptre, 2014)
- Like I give a frock, Michi Girl xx (Viking, 2008)
- Even Dogs in the Wild, Ian Ranking (Orion, 2015)
- A Common Philosophy, Michael Leunig and Karl Rahner (Aurora, 1992)
- Overcoming Challenges – Nehemiah, Bill Hybels with Kevin and Sherry Harney (Zondervan, 2008)
- The Monster in the Box, Ruth Rendel (Doubleday, 2009)
- The Tolstoy Estate, Steven Conte (Fourth Estate, 2020)
- Stravinsky’s Lumch, Drusilla Modjeska (Picador, 2001)
- Immortal in Death, and Rapture in Death, J. D. Robb (two books in one, Little Brown)
- J. P. Donleavy’s Ireland in All Her Sins and in Some of Her Graces (Michael Joseph, 1986)
- Methode de Francais, Sans Frontieres (Cle International, 1982)
More for my -read-someday pile.