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A sale and some really really really really cool used books

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Category : BookieMonster News, Books for Sale

Fiiiiiiirstly, we are having sale! SALE SALE SALE! With extra ponies!¹ 

But yes, we are having a sale. For starters we have around 400 NEW books that are all going for $20.95 or less. Less than $20.95! 

Like, for instance, $15.95 Or $9.95 – OMG SRSLY? 

Like, SRSLY. So get in there. Those books are selling, they are going, they are goneburger. Without them, your life is pantsical.² Don’t be pantsical. You wouldn’t like it when it’s pantsical. 

Now, as well as this amazing news of epic awesomeness³ I’ve loaded some really cool secondhand books for sale. They are so cool I want to buy them. But I am not allowed to buy from myself. They are that cool. 

 

Hyde Park Gate NewsHyde Park Gate News : The Stephen Family Newspaper by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell with Thoby Stephen $18 

As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They called the paper ‘Hyde Park Gate News’, and the original manuscripts are published here for the first time. Gossipy, playful and at times irreverent, they record the comings and goings of a host of figures – George Meredith and Henry James among them – whilst also proffering their own fictional and poetic creations. 

 

Gardening with Carnivores : Sarracenia Pitcher Plants in Cultivation and in the Wild by Nick Romanowski $15 

A complete guide to these ornamental plants, from natural history to hybridisation and from making a bog garden to using the Gardening with Carnivorespitchers as long-lasting cut “flowers”. 

 

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris $14 

Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris’s sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from “a writer worth treasuring” (Seattle Times). 

 

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk $10 

Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland (a mash-up of North Korea, Cuba, Communist-era China, and Nazi-era Germany), as an ‘exchange student’ into the welcoming arms of his Simpsons-spinoff Midwestern host family. 

 

A Dagg at my TableA Dagg at my Table : Writings 1977 – 1996 by John Clarke $8 

An hilarious selection of the best of John Clarke’s writing. Included are his early Fred Dagg radio scripts, his history of farnarkeling, his unforgettable royal commissions, his poems, and his famous television interviews with everyone from Bob Hawke to John Howard.

 

 

 

 

More to come! 

¹Ponies not included 

²Having the property of, or quality of, being pants. Yes, I made that up. I hereby give you all permission to go forth and use it and tell people who made it up, i.e. me. 

³Shout out to my nephew

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I just finished Pygmy. I want the old Palahniuk back!

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