Books in the Wild: Spotted in Waterstones

Happy Saturday everyone. I’ve been wandering the bookshops again, and so this week we’ve got my latest spots in Gower Street.

Firstly, lets have a moment for the Penguin book vending machine. I’m not sure how long it’s there for, but it’s so cool and I hope there are more of them on tour soon.

Secondly I’m always interested to see what in-store book clubs are reading. And Gower Street is super busy when to comes to events – when i was in there there were people galloping through the store performing Shakespeare, with an audience trailing behind. I read a lot of Nina Bawden as a child but I haven’t read much of her adult fiction and I have Sangu Mandanna’s previous book on the Kindle waiting to be read – this has given me a nudge to move that up the list a bit.

Another thing giving me a nudge – the display of Atmosphere. My copy is sitting on the pile at home too – but it’s the special edition version with the pretty edges.

Here’s A Case of Life and Limb in the wild – go read the bonus review, and my review of the first one – I’m hoping we get a third. And also on the hardback crime shelf is the book that goes with Bookish, the new TV show created by and starring Mark Gatiss, although he hasn’t written this novelisation…

And finally, I was hunting in the American history section for the Caroline Bessette-Kennedy book that I keep seeing being written about (often in the context of having the wrong photos in it!) and not findng it, but instead realising that Ask Not is now out in paperback and I still haven’t read the hardback, and then buying another book about the Kennedy wives despite that…

Have a great weekend everyone!