[Eric]

When in England, buy as the English. Well, maybe they don't buy the books I did:

Charles Morgan: "The River Line"
Charles Morgan: "The Fountain"
Anthony Trollope: "Can You Forgive Her?"

The last of these was in a curious, small, hardback edition, from Oxford Classics of years ago. The title is equally curious, but I couldn't resist the pocket-sized book for £4, with free coffee stain on the dustcover.

I was toying with the idea of buying Blake Morrison's latest, whose title I've forgotten ("South of the River"?), but thought I could buy that so easily online. But I want to read a book like that, dealing like what it's like to live in contemporary Britain.