Mmmm...

Sebastian Faulks has a new novel out, reviewed here by Allan Massie at the Scotsman. Somehow I missed his last one, perhaps I will get both at once. I am going to London on Tuesday for a conference on rationality in literature (check out the program--pretty fun, eh?!?) and I have pretty much already decided (a) that I am going to have one day of down-time where I wander into either a real bookstore or more likely WH Smith and descend on the light-reading shelves and devour at least two or three trashy novels and (b) that I am going to drop a lot of money in the airport bookstore on the way home, I must think about what UK Amazon-shippable titles I could spare myself from needing to obtain...