Books in the Wild: Back at Birmingham airport…

You knew this was coming. I can’t go on holiday without trying to spot some books. We didn’t make it to a supermarket this time, so I don’t have any Spanish covers for English books this time, you’ll have to put yo with my general exasperation with the choices at the airport W H Smiths.

And it is Smiths, plural, beauty this is the best I could do from two of them – both good sized because I’m not counting the one tiny set of shelves in the one I went in before security. There are a lot of familiar suspects here I really struggled to find two books to buy – one of the reactions I ended up in two skips was because I couldn’t find what I wanted in the first one. So we have Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Lessons in Chemistry, The Thursday Murder Club and Really Good, Actually along with some crime that clearly too creepy for me!

And here we have even more creepy cover crime, more Richard Osman, a Robert Galbraith, some literary fiction and fantasy and the new Victoria Hislop.

This one is a little better, but I have In At The Deep End in the kindle backlog, the Lucy Score is in Kindle Unlimited (I even had it borrowed at the time even if I still haven’t read it), I’ve read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and the new YA Ali Hazelwood along with even more Richard Osman, literary fiction and some Colleen Hoover.

And finally, some non-fiction. They had Arnie, and Guenter from Drive to Survive, Matthew Perry, Jada Pinkett Smith and finally the book I had been looking for – David Michell’s Unruly. And if I tell you that the copy you see is the only copy there was, you’ll understand why I felt lucky to get it, even if it was a bit bumped and the spine was already broken. At which point I went back and picked up a novel I hadn’t heard of before from one of the previous shelves, but I’m not telling you which, so it can be a surprise when it pops in Books Incoming!

My conclusion from all this is that our September holiday clearly happened after all the big autumn books for the airports came out, and this one was too soon for anything else to have supplanted them. Hopefully but next holiday though…

Have a great weekend!