My library just grew again 2014...

[Mossie]

Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars.

...and a big thank you to Simon/Mossie for the heads up on that, I would most probably have missed it.

I too read them many years ago in paper form, and I am now looking forwards very much to reading them again. 

Jim

You're welcome Jim.  I'm re-reading Red Mars right now, they're just landing and I'm trying to work out how much work it would take to model the Ares.  A lot.... 48 external shuttle tanks, 5 buran external tanks and all the gubbins to hold them together.

If anyone's interested, here's an image of the Ares that takes the First 100 to settle Mars.  To give a sense of scale, each 'torus' is made up of six shuttle external tanks, with eight torus's in total.
http://www.3develop.nl/blog/?p=256

[jcf]

Arrived in the post today from Bob Petite up in Alberta:
The Bell 47 Helicopter Story, Robert S. Petite and Jeff Evans, 2013
750+ pages, 1,100+ illustrations and photos



http://www.helicopterheritagecanada.com/blog.asp?id=4

Go here to order:
http://www.helicopterheritagecanada.com

Probably as complete a history of the 47 in all its variations as will ever be written.
     

[Weaver]

Since I was just up the road camping this weekend, I decided to visit this place, which I've been driving past for years, but never got around to actually going into:

http://www.bookstore-uk.co.uk/brierlow.asp

Knew it was a bookshop, didn't know it was a discount bookshop.....

After having put quite a lot more firmly back on the shelf, I endedup with this lot:

Empire of the Clouds (James Hamilton-Paterson) (big-format, hardback illustrated edition)
Soviet/Russian Aircraft Weapons since WWII (Yefim Gordon)
Beriev's Jet Flying Boats (Red Star Vol.28)
Peace and War (Joe Haldeman) (This is the definitive version of his famous novel The Forever War plus two sequels)

Sum total : £28 

[Nick]

Since I was just up the road camping this weekend, I decided to visit this place, which I've been driving past for years, but never got around to actually going into:

http://www.bookstore-uk.co.uk/brierlow.asp

So you're in that area! I've not looked in that shop for over 10 years now, think I might have to pop back one day.

Have you been to the shop at the old Hassop Station near Bakewell? I got a few bargains in there, again some years back. Seem to recall a cafe there too for hikers on the Monsal Trail. 

[Weaver]

Since I was just up the road camping this weekend, I decided to visit this place, which I've been driving past for years, but never got around to actually going into:

http://www.bookstore-uk.co.uk/brierlow.asp

So you're in that area! I've not looked in that shop for over 10 years now, think I might have to pop back one day.

Have you been to the shop at the old Hassop Station near Bakewell? I got a few bargains in there, again some years back. Seem to recall a cafe there too for hikers on the Monsal Trail. 

I'm about 25 miles away, just south of Stockport, so I usually only go past that shop when I'm on my way somewhere else and can't stop. Might have been in the shop in Bakewell but can't remember specifically (I see a lot of bookshops...). Leek is a good town for bookshops.

[Gondor]

Retrieved from the sorting office today

Warpaint Series No 5 Hawker Typhoon.

Bought on Amazon for £0.01 after watching one on ebay going for more than £16.

Gondor

[Thorvic]

Britain's Fleet Air Arm in WW2 (schiffer hardback new)
Fleet Air Arm 39-45 (Squadron s/h)

Both by Ron Mackay and both off eBay 

[Gondor]

From Amazon

Red Star Volume 7 - Tupolev Tu-4 Soviet Superfortress

Gondor

[Thorvic]

From Amazon:

Listening In - RAF Elint since 1945 by Dave Foster & Chris Gibson 

[Mossie]

Ooooh, I'd almost forgotten about that, wots it like, wots it like???

[Gondor]

From Amazon:

Listening In - RAF Elint since 1945 by Dave Foster & Chris Gibson 

Something else for me to buy after receiving British Military Aircraft Serials 1878 - 1987 Compiled by Bruce Robertson

Thanks Kit 

Gondor

[Go4fun]

Picked up this jewel. I know it's not everyone's bottle of light ale but my sister saw it and got it for me. Ain't even my birthday or nuttin!

Also got a hard back 1951 printing of "From Here To Eterity". Doesn't everyone need at least one book older than themselves?

[Steel Penguin]

Challenger 1 MBT ( part 1) by Robert Griffin from  Kagero books
the earlier one I got from bovo was part 2 and I didn't realise at the time.

[NARSES2]

Not new but just started to read it "MI6 - A History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909 to 1949"

If the last three inches are as fascinating as the first 1/2 inch it will be brilliant 

[Steel Penguin]

the long war by  Terry Prattchett and Stephen Baxter,  like the 1st one ( the long earth) and with the title of the 3rd one (the long mars) now out in hard cant resist