I’m in denial that August is nearly over, but the weather feels like it’s starting to change for the cooler, and the very early mornings are getting darker so it must be. Most of my reading time this week was spent on The Mitford Girls – which is 700 pages long and absolutely fascinating. It really does make me want to go off and read about more the various sisters and also the people around them, but I have so much non-fiction on the pile and they do tend to get slightly ignored in favour of fiction that I shall have to try and resist the urge to purchase more! And of the rest of the reading, aside from the Christie and Heyer which were on audio, the other three books were all from the pile, so if it wasn’t for that whole situation at the National Trust bookshops last week, I would be feeling quite good about myself. As it is, the pile is still larger than it was at the start of the month, and is looming at me from the corner of the sitting room and making me feel guilty.
Read:
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer
The Mitford Girls by Mary S Lovell
The House of the Seven Mabels by Jill Churchill
City of Vengeance by D V Bishop
The Wombles at Work by Elizabeth Beresford
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Started:
Ritual of Fire by D V Bishop
Cultish by Amanda Montell
Still reading:
Pet Shop Boys, Literally by Chris Heath
Abdication by Juliet Nicolson
One ebook bought, but that’s it. A positive relief after last week.
Bonus picture: an afternoon at the women’s World Cup rugby on Sunday.
*next to a book book title indicates that it came from NetGalley. ** indicates it was an advance copy from a source other than NetGalley.
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 
I love The Devil’s Cub. It was one of the first Heyer novels that I read and it’s always been a favourite.