Restocking The Bookshelf

I don't often buy a whole batch of books all at once but it just happened this way last week.

I like to have a selection of different books waiting to be read so that I can choose what takes my fancy at any given time.

A Nurse's secret is part of The Nightingale series by Donna Douglas. I've read all of the preceding books so as soon as I saw the latest one on offer for 99p on Kindle, I grabbed it.

I don't visit charity shops on a regular basis but I popped into a couple recently and came out with three books. I loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Miss Benson's Beetle, both by Rachel Joyce, so when I saw The Music Shop by the same author I thought I'd give this one a try. I know Judith Kerr from The Tiger Who Came to Tea, but I haven't read the semi-autobiographical novels she wrote about the war. I'm really looking forward to reading this one. I've watched The Handmaid's Tale and the book was on my wish list so when I saw it, I picked it up.

I popped into The Works and saw that they'd got a Black Friday offer on. Instead of three books for £7.50, their usual offer, it was four books for that price. How could I resist? I've read a few Jenny Colgan books in the past, they were okay, I couldn't resist one about knitting though. I haven't read anything by Freida McFadden before but she seems to be a popular author at the moment, the world and his wife seem to be reading her novels, so I thought I'd give one a go. The Trial sounds intriguing so that was put into the basket, and The Librarians of Rue de Picardie is based on a true story which sounds fascinating so that one came home with me too.

After writing the above, I happened to pass the charity shops close to home and couldn't resist popping in, I came home with another three books. Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers was on my list of books to look out for, I'd read some reviews and thought it was something I might like so I'm pleased to have found this. I'm interested to read more from Kristin Hannah after reading The Four Winds earlier this year so I picked up True Colours. I'm curious about Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome after hearing people mention it, so that came home with me too.

I really didn't need any more books, there are already plenty waiting for me on the bookshelf but I just couldn't resist.