In Singapore last week. Plaza Singapura, one of the never-ending gleaming malls, had a book sale. Not a cardboard-box-full-of-still-overpriced-crap sale like you normally get in bookshops, but a honest to god 30 foot long trestle table literally heaped with thousands of the buggers. Most of them were going for $3 Singapore Dollars each - that's about a quid a book. Magic.

From the top:

• He Kills Coppers - Jake Arnott


• The Genius Factory - David Plotz


• Don Delillo - Cosmopolis


• Martin Amis - Yellow Dog


• Bruce Chatwin - Nicholas Shakespeare


• Norman Lewis - A Voyage By Dhow


• The Nudist On The Late Shift - Po Bronson


• Italo Calvino - Hermit In Paris


• Oracle Night - Paul Auster


• Songs From Nowhere Near The Heart - Jon Baird

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Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors, literature, travel, politics at 8/18/2006 04:44:37 PM