wimpole estate, second- hand bookshop

There is a fab little second-hand bookshop at Wimpole. Lots of paperbacks were 30p - bargain! Here's my haul from Monday. A sweet old copy of Winnie the Pooh, 3 Penguin Scores (with lovely covers) and the Penguin Book of Religious Verse, to add to my copy of English Verse. I also picked up The Life and Times of Allen Lane, a biography of the Penguin books founder himself.

charity shop finds

After the Robin and Lucienne Day exhibition, we visited a few of the charity shops in and around Chichester on Saturday. I came home with a pair of green Dansk candle holders, and a few classic penguin books. I was thrilled to find the candle holders, as I've been eyeing them up on ebay for a while now!

ladybird books

I picked up some great Ladybird books - knitting, things to make and tricks and magic. I particularly love the covers. The knitting one is fab, it instructs the reader "Now you have made a headband for yourself, you can make a pincushion for Mother". Brilliant!

charity shop books

On my usual trawl through the charity shops yesterday, I found a lovely selection of books. I love the Observer's Book series, and found British Architecture and Sea Fishes; fab illustrations in both, particularly in the architecture copy. I also bought a Graham Greene novel and the New York Trilogy because I liked the covers.