Books for the TBR Pile - 'A Book Lover and His Money...' Edition

Apologies for the 'blog silence' yesterday, it's my youngest daughter's birthday (right now!) and I was out and about getting a few bits done (including trying to sort out a new bank card, six days without one - and counting...) Anyway.

You know the story by now ;o) I go out with stuff to do and end up in charity shops and at the book stall on Greenwich Market; I didn't even try and fight it this time, just went with the flow (trying to take my mind off going back to work on Monday, shouldn't be that bad but you know how it is). It was slim pickings this time round but I still managed to find some interesting bits to liberate and take home with me, of course I did ;o) Lets take a look...

Starting from the bottom... 

I've never read 'The Dark Half' (there was a passage near the beginning that freaked me out as a kid, it involved an eyeball...) and when I saw the hardback on sale for £2, in the Hospice shop, I thought it was time I did something about that. 

Same kind of thing with 'The Copper Promise', except I have read it (ages ago) and I'm fairly certain there are no gross-out scenes involving eyeballs. So not that similar then :o) I just fancied a little old-school style fantasy and it doesn't come a lot better than this.

And 'The Shuttered Room' has a whole load of stories that I don't already have (I think...) along with awesome cover art; pretty much the perfect package then so that came home too.


And while I didn't find any decent Manga (well, stuff that my eldest daughter would go for) in Oxfam, I did come across this graphic novel adaptation of (part of) Moorcock's 'Hawkmoon' tales. I enjoy the 'Elric' stuff, coming out of Titan Comics, so I'm keen to see how this one pans out.

Anything here, caught your eye? Leave a comment and let me know ;o)

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  1. Jim Reddy12 December 2025 at 22:54

    The Dark Half was one of the first Stephen Kings books read back in my university days. Good stuff. That Hawkmoon comic looks great but when I first glanced at it, I thought it was a Black Library book!

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    1. Graeme14 December 2025 at 21:44

      'Hawkmoon' was a good read but yeah, it does look like a BL book at first glance :o) I'm looking forward to 'The Dark Half', that bit with the eyeball still freaked me out though!

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