The Bedside Crow

Today's special word is,

Today's special word is, to mark the occasion of Crystal Palace V Middlesborough at Selhurst Park this afternoon, and in honour of , so I am told, one of the nicest men to ever put on an Eagles top, SOUTHGATE. Say the word at the counter today and tomorrow and get a 10% discount on any purchase excepting Book Tokens and some special orders. If the Eagles manage to win by 2 clear goals, I'll even make it 20%.

Thank you for reading.

Is your winkle all right?

Fairplay to Reinkarnation Books for re-publishing Hitler Needs You by Jack Trevor Story, an extract from the back cover of which, is reproduced here.

The book is the first in a trilogy written in 1970 and set in 1934, featuring the adventures of 16 year old Horace Spurgeon Fenton, factory apprentice. 

Is it any good? See above.

Nice sale!

Part of our special 3 for 3 promotion.
 

Justine's Families south east review: November 2009

WE HAVE FINALLY moved house. Having been one of the East Dulwich pioneers from the days when the only lively thing about Northcross Road was the school (long since converted into bijou dwellingettes), and Lordship Lane boasted a Co-op, four butchers, its own dole office, a wild west saloon bar, brothel and public gibbet (okay so I exaggerated about the butchers, there were only three), we have relocated to a leafier suburb where you can actually park outside your own house. True, we are now also ring-fenced by road works which means that the only way the kids get to school on time is by hot air balloon (which drongo was it that decided that every hill in South London should be dug up simultaneously? Ah, that'll be a collective noun of drongos). Meanwhile, not unlike the bargain tins with no labels scenario, we are up to our necks in boxes without a clue as to what each one contains - could be crockery, could be cat food.

Continue reading.

Big type, small margins.

When I first saw a copy of Jo Brand's autobiography Look Back In Hunger(£20.00 or £9.99 in Sainsbury's) in Waterstone's, I honestly thought I had picked up the large print edition.

[Cartoon from the recent (Oct 19th) Fall Books Special edition of The New Yorker.]

So, give or take the odd 102 years and Walter de la Mare and I are now neighbours.

At midsummer 1907 the family was thankfully able to leave what de la Mare could now admit was 'the horrible little flat' in Samos Road for a home not a great deal bigger, but much more pleasant in Worbeck Road, Anerley, a few streets off.

From The Life of Walter de la Mare by Theresa Whistler.

Dear *international bestselling author* (and friend) please hone your database skills to save a tree.

Is that just a normal book, dad?

Bloody hell, I grumble, sixteen quid ninetynine -to which Fred (9), who is helping me this morning, asks the above question.

It is a good question.

Booker special.

It was the Wolf what won it.

Anybody looking to buy a copy from us, if you mention Twitter, Facebook or The Bedside Crow then you can buy a copy for £12.99.

That's six quid off. But only in the shop.

Get in quick before she jumps.

My question is this:

How long before the UK's highstreet booksellers, in their ever more futile quest for *market share*, start employing Christmas staff to stand by their open doorways chucking a free Clarkson, or Peter Kay or Dan Brown at their *passing trade*?

Not long now, I wouldn't wonder.