Books Incoming: Mid-June 2026 edition

It’s was going to be a two photo month this month, because there are a bunch of books that are already read, so I took them in a separate photo early so I could tidy them into their new homes on the “proper” shelves. But then I pushed the post back a week and had another mad Tuesday afternoon and bought another five books and suddenly we needed three photos. Not my finest hour I have to say

This photo is the pile (minus the read stuff) before the Tuesday afternoon madness. This has my pre-orders of the new Annabel Monaghan and the paperback version of The Eights which is one of the last of my Waterstones pre-order discount books. Then we have a Taste of Murder which was my holiday book from mum (thanks mum!) and The Spring Begins which was my holiday book to myself. There’s Get Over It April Evans which was my purchase on the first trip to Gay’s The Word and The Villain Edit and The Worst Woman in London which both came from a trip to Main Character Books that I haven’t written about yet.

And this photo is my five book Tuesday, plus a sixth book purchased on the way to the Royal Albert Hall to see Rufus Wainwright. That Wednesday purchase is the Constellation of Genius in the top left. The rest are three from Judd – two Donna Leons after I enjoyed the first one that I bought from there a couple of weeks back and The Windsor Faction. There’s Diaghilev’s Empire from Gay’s The Word and Oxford Blue from Skoob.

And these are the read ones – there are the other three in the Imogen Quy series which I bought so I could binge the entire series after enjoying The Wyndham Case so much, and then Star Shipped, which should really have been in last month’s picture except that it was delivered to my parents and so I didn’t get hold of it until the trip to Wales, at which point I read it immediately (and wrote about it). And that’s your lot for June. Here’s to more self control in the July post…

Have a great weekend!