The 1st April Library Book Photo

Brought home these library books yesterday from the Mobile Library, and they will be round again in four weeks and it will still be April - so that's why it's the 1st April Library Book Photo. Almost all the books were reserved online and as usual there are some authors I know and others I wonder where the information came from to give me the idea for reserving.

The two crime by Jim Kelly I know will be good and 'The Double Turn ' by Carol Carnac, who is one of British Library Crime Classics best authors. The other BLCC, 'Sky High' is by Michael Gilbert. 'Murder at the Castle' is by an author I don't know and the same with Claire Anders. I did say I wouldn't read any more Devon crimes by Stephanie Austin as they are a bit light , but I seem to have reserved another. I know I saw 'The Eights' by Joanna Miller on a book blog. The one with a T on the spine is teenage fiction by Laura Wood that I read about somewhere and the Persephone is one of their recent re-prints "Crooked Cross" by Sally Carson. On the right are two non-fiction 'The English Path' a reprint by Little Toller books that I've had before but didn't read and 'On Gallow's Down' by Nicola Chester is a memoir of countryside life , she wrote 'Ghosts of the Farm' which I read and enjoyed  earlier this year.

Below - In March there were eight brought home. I was just a few pages into The Potting Shed Murder before deciding it was rubbish!. I enjoyed Moonfleet, The Place of Tides, London Can Take it, and especially Appointment in Paris by Jane Thynne. I didn't like the book by Mick Herron and the very old crime story "The Abominable Snowman "was very dated. The small book in the centre was "The Serviceberry" a book about plants and indigenous Americans, I think. I flicked through but didn't finish it.

Details of books read are on the separate Books Read 2026 Page and I'll let you know how I get on with my early April  assortment.

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