books as tables

THEY love books - its hard for us four-footed's to grasp exactly why, but they seem to spend a lot of time with them. 

adhoc table - books piled on a lacquer tray

tables need to be strong in this house

pair of tables on the upstairs landing outside the guest bedrooms

pretty black lacquer box found in a junk shop in Melbourne

books put out for weekend guests in the blue room

table from Pigott's, painted black

basket used as a side table in the TV room

sometimes THEY  run out of table space  !

old cane coffee table found at Vintage Days in Mittagong

B O O K S

HER faves:  

anything by Patrick Leigh-Fermor

'Berlin Diaries' (Marie Vassiltchikov)

'The Partnership - Duveen & Berensen' (Colin Simpson)

'The Smell of Summer Grass' (Adam Nicholson)

anything by James Lees-Milne

anything by Nancy Mitford

'Echoing Voices' (John Harris)

'To Marietta from Paris' (Susan Mary Alsop)

'Mariga and Her Friends' (Corola Peck)

'Redeeming Features' (Nicholas Haslam)

'A Gardner's Labrynth' (Patrick Kinmonth)

anything by Beverley Nichols

anything by Henry James

'The Education of a Gardener' (Russell Page)

 'The House of Boughs' (Elizabeth Wilkinson & Marjorie Henderson)     

HIS faves

anything by Paul Johnson

anything by Anthony Beevor

Gentleman Publisher's Commonplace Book (John G Murray)

Patrick O'Brien (Capt. Aubrey series)

Rupert Hart-Davis

'View from the Ground' (Martha Gellhorn)

'Old Men Forget' (Duff Cooper)

Allan Clark Diaries

'Men of Honour' (Adam Nicholson)

'The Hour of The Women' (C. von Krockow)

'Her Privates We' (Frederic Manning)

anything by Primo Levi

some things by Asimov

newest faves:

Allan Mallinson (a cavalry version of O'Brien)

Stella Rimmington (oh, what a Dame !)

fave book shops:

Lesley Mckay, Woollahra

Bowral Bookmen, Bowral

John Sandoe, London

Heywood Hill, London

Kinsey Marable, Virginia, USA

The Book Shop, Bowral (phone +61248621634)

 Ben Pentreath, London (but lots more than just books !)

Potterton Books

I'm bored with the book story - its much more fun playing with the tapestry wool !