They hoover up publishers' leftovers and stack them up for a few quid a go. In there the other day, I saw Michael Vaughan's 'Year In The Sun' for 50p.
The blurb on the back contained the superlative line: 'There's never a dull moment when the 2002 Cricketer Of The Year is on the field'.
Laugh? I almost bought it...
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I can understand the dilemma - 50p sounds a decent price, but you wouldn't quite buy it for that. Maybe if they knock it down to
25.
Yes, not sure what the price threshold is for A Year In The Sun. Maybe 20p just as it requires a single coin? 25's too fiddly...
I get the feeling that Michael Vaughan isn't your favourite person?
Last summer I bought a few second hand books from a sale at the Oval - and I even got to go into the pavilion! to buy them. The ones I thought would be really good were pretty awful - eg Viv Richards, far too pleased with himself and rather boring. I really couldn't tell from the covers and the blurb what they would be like.
Patricia, I know it seems that way - I've almost been feeling bad about it. But he's got that unfortunate capacity for false humility, which is what made me laugh about the line in his blurb.
I agree about King Viv's autobiography too - a tremendous disappointment.
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