Wishlist

These are the unread books not currently in my possession. But they will be. Oh yes.

Cheap Jack Zita – Sabine Baring Gould. Apparently completely unavailable unless one has hundreds of dollars. Publishers! Come on! POD, guys, POD.

An Imam in Paris – Rifa’a Rafi’al Tahtawi

Love, Sex and Tragedy – Simon Goldhill

An Attic in Greece – Austen Kark

Over the Hills and Far Away – Candida Lycett Green Off the list, didn’t like the other book by her that I read enough to read more.

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia – John Dickie

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

A Biography of Latin – Nicholas Ostler

Seven Types of Ambiguity – Elliott Perlman

Utopia – Thomas More

Murther and Walking Spirits – Robertson Davies

Aeschylus – Louis MacNeice

To Charles Fort, with Love – Caitlin Kiernan

A Field Guide to Getting Lost – Rebecca Solnit

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa – Michael Kimmerman

Hercules: Scenes from an Heroic Life – Alastair Blanshart

The Stone Quartet – Alan Garner

The Woman who Waited – Andrei Makine

Too Close to the Sun – Sarah Wheeler

The Seas – Samantha Hunt

Cooking with a Poet – Paul Roche (Slightly Foxed)

The Dark of Summer – Eric Linklater (Slightly Foxed)

Small Talk of Wreyland – Cecil Torr (Slightyl Foxed)

Alms for Oblivion sequence – Simon Raven

• The Rich Pay Late
• Friends in Low Places
• The Sabre Squadron
• Fielding Gray And thank you, Mr W, for the first 4. Now we just need Random House/Vintage to shake a leg and republish vol II.
• The Judas Boy
• Places Where They Sing
• Sound the Retreat
• Come Like Shadows
• Bring Forth the Body
• The Survivors

Twilight of the Superheroes – Deborah Eisenberg

Departure Lounge – Chad Taylor

A Civil Action – Jonathan Harr

The Futurist – James Othner

St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves – Karen Russell

The Fabric of Night – Christoph Peters

The Parasites – Daphne du Maurier

The Diary of a Provincial Lady – E M Delafield

Nomad’s Hotel – Cees Nooteboom (Slightly Foxed)

Fangland – John Marks

The Lying Tongue – Andrew Wilson

The Ministry of Special Cases – Nathan Englander from Zoesmom, Xmas 2008

Margrave of the Marshes – John Peel

The Game – Diana Wynne Jones

Virtue in the Cave – Roslyn Weiss

Rifleman Dodd – C S Forrester

Moralia – Plutarch

Day – A L Kennedy

A History of Reading – Alberto Manguel

Midnight in Sicily – Peter Robb

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony – Roberto Calasso

On Bullfighting – A L Kennedy

The Prospect Before Her – Olwen Hulton

The Summer Book – Janssen Tove

The Box of Delights – John Masefield

Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen

The Children of Green Knowe – L M Boston

Quieter than Sleep – Joanne Dobson

The Greengage Summer – Rumer Godden

A Mystery for Ninepence – P Gegan

Tom Jones – Henry Fielding

My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier

Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne du Maurier

Farewell, Leicester Square – Betty Miller

We Danced All Night – Martin Pugh

The Swish of the Curtain series – Pamela Brown

• Maddy Alone
• Blue Door Venture
• Golden Pavements
• Maddy Again

The Unburied – Charles Palliser

Betrayals – Charles Palliser

Isabel and the Sea – George Millar

The Worm Forgives the Plough – John Stewart Collins

The Man Who Sold Death – James Munro

Delicate, Edible Birds – Lauren Groff. Have sneaky suspicion that I want this because the cover is so pretty, not because I am so overwhelmed with her writing talent. Judging a cover by its book?

Wanderlust – Rebecca Solnit. Borrowed but as yet unread.