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Things I am enjoying at the moment
Mariana (Persephone Classics)Mariana (Persephone Classics) by Monica Dickens
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.96
Mariana is the first Persephone book I read. A wonderful, evocative mug of hot chocolate of a book
The Complete Yes Minister - Collector's Boxset [1980] [DVD]The Complete Yes Minister - Collector's Boxset [1980] [DVD]
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £9.02
Surely the best written British sitcom ever. Every episode is perfectly crafted
MatapediaMatapedia by Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Buy used from: £6.99
I bought this as a download as the CD's hard to get hold of. A lovely, wistful album - in a similar vein to The McGarrigle Hour but more introspective
On The NightOn The Night by Dire Straits
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.88
A breathtaking live album: Dire Straits are talented musicians with an obvious love of performing
Mystics: Ten Who Show Us the Ways of GodMystics: Ten Who Show Us the Ways of God by Murray Bodo
Buy new: £9.39 / Used from: £6.09
I've had this book for a while and only just got round to reading it: a personal meditation on the spirituality of 10 varied figures by a Fransiscan poet
Ophelia (CD)Ophelia (CD) by Natalie Merchant
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £2.98
Ophelia is a lush parallel world of an album that sends shivers up my spine.
A Grief Observed (Faber paperbacks)A Grief Observed (Faber paperbacks) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £2.25
An honest account of grief in the form of four notebooks in which Lewis recorded his thoughts and feelings after his wife died of cancer.
Mad Men - Complete Season 1 [DVD] [2007]Mad Men - Complete Season 1 [DVD] [2007]
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £9.90
Not having a TV, it takes me a while to get round to watching things. A friend showed me episode 1 of Mad Men the other day and I will definitely be watching the rest of the series.
Stig of the Dump (Puffin Audiobooks)Stig of the Dump (Puffin Audiobooks) by Clive King
Buy new: £6.32 / Used from: £2.50
I bought this recently to listen to on a long car journey. Still a fabulous book! But why are all children's audio books abridged these days?
The Borrowers [DVD]The Borrowers [DVD]
The quality of BBC tea time dramas is unsurpassed. Penelope Wilton and Ian Holm lead a marvellous cast in this nostaligic classic.