In addition to my two library cards and my many online sources I have during the past few years – commencing mainly in 2022 – accumulated a rather large collection of used books from a handful of charity shops I have frequented, mainly in Hull but also in some other East Yorkshire towns. Over the weekend I set about cataloguing the lot, though this list excludes those which I have given away as gifts to friends or family members. The small minority which I am currently reading or have already finished are shown in bold.

FICTION (arranged by author)

Dr. Gregory’s books have proven particularly easy to find at sub-£ prices.

NON-FICTION (arranged by topic)

ANCIENT WORLD

• Beard, Dame Mary
  • How Do We Look? The Eye of Faith
  • Pompeii, The Life of a Roman Town
• Graves, Robert: The Greek Myths, Vol. 1 & 2
• Peddie, John: The Roman War Machine
• Potter, Timothy William: Roman Italy
• Taggart, Caroline: A Classical Education
• Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
• Wells, Colin: The Roman Empire

ART & ARCHITECTURE

• Cruickshank, Dan: Adventures in Architecture
• Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of: The House, Chatsworth
• National Trust:
  • Beningbrough Hall*
  • Treasures of
• Spalding, Frances: British Art Since 1900
• Style, Colin & O-Ian: House Histories for Beginners
• Suh, H. Anna: Leonardo’s Notebook
• Taylor, Richard: How to Read a Church

BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS (arranged by protagonist)

• Cameron of Chipping Norton, David, Baron: Cameron at 10 (Sir Anthony Seldon & Peter Snowdon)
• Churchill, Sir Winston
  • The Churchills, In Love & War (Mary Sybilla Lovell)
  • Winston & Clementine, The Triumphs & Tragedies of the Churchills (Richard Hough)
• Clark, Alan: Into Politics (himself)
• Cook, James: Captain James Cook (Richard Hough)
• Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of (Amanda Foreman)
• Fowlds, Derek: A Part Worth Playing (himself)
• Hodkinson, Mark: No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy (himself)
• Holbein, Hans: The King’s Painter, The Life & Times of (Moyle, Franny)
• Hudson, Kerry: Lowborn (himself)
• Ishikawa, Tetsuya: How I Caused The Credit Crunch (himself)
• Kaufman, Sir Gerald: How to be a Minister (himself)
• Kay, Adam: Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas (himself)
• Macron, Emmanuel: The French Exception (Alan Plowright)
• Mitford, Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford (Charlotte Mosley)
• Mowlam, Mo: The Biography (Julia Langdon)
• Newcastle, William, 1st Duke of: Portrait of a Cavalier (Geoffrey Trease)
• Palin, Sir Michael: Full Circle (himself)
• Pilkington, Karl: The World of Karl Pilkington (Ricky Gervais)
• Riverdale, Robert “Skips”, Baron: A Life, A Sail, A Changing Sea (himself)
• Smith, Matt: The Biography (Emily Herbert)
• West, Timothy: Our Great Canal Journeys (himself)
• Whitelaw, William, Viscount: The Whitelaw Memoirs (himself)

CONTEMPORARY POLITICS

• Abell, Stig: How Britain Really Works
• Brooks, Richard: The Great Tax Robbery
• Cohen, Nick: Waiting for the Etonians
• Harding, Luke: Shadow State, Murder, Mayhem & Russia’s Remaking of the West
• Luce, Edward: In Spite of the Gods, The Strange Rise of Modern India
• Minton, Anna: Ground Control
• Runciman of Doxford, David, 4th Viscount: How Democracy Ends
• Willetts, David, Baron: A University Education
• Wilson, Andrew: The Ukraine Crisis, What It Means For The West

HISTORY (other)

• Belchem, John: A New History of the Isle of Man, Vol. 5 The Modern Period 1830-1999
• Briggs, Asa, Baron: A Social History of England
• Browne, Harry: The Rule of British Trade Unions 1825-1914
• Churchill, Sir Winston: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. I
• Crosby, Alan: Preston Gould, England’s Greatest Carnival
• Thomas, Gordon: Inside British Intelligence
• Hibbert, Christopher: A Social History of the English 1066-1945
• Jones, Terry: Who Murdered Chaucer?
• Laidler, Keith: The Head of God, The Lost Treasure of the Templars
• Morfitt, Paul & Wells, Malcolm: Hull Corporation Buses*
• Sandbrook, Dominic: Never Had It So Good
• Stead, Neville: Kingston-upon-Hull, Images of a Rich Transport Heritage
• Street, Sean: A Remembered Land, Recollections of Country Life 1880-1914

LINGUISTICS

• Burrow, John Anthony: A Book of Middle English
• Oxford
  • Dictionary of Idioms
  • Dictionary of Quotations & Proverbs Vol. I
• Parkinson, Judy: I Before E
• Taggart, Caroline & Wines, J. A.: My Grammar & I

LOCOMOTION

• Allan, Ian: Railway Liveries 1923-1947
• Atterbury, Paul: Discovering Britain’s Lost Railways
• Morrison, G. W. & Whiteley, J. S.: Profile of the Deltics
• Jones, Edgar: The Penguin Guide to the Railways of Britain
• Ross, David: The Illustrated History of British Steam Railways

ROYAL FAMILY

• Burns, Michael: The Queen’s Flight
• Fraser, Lady Antonia: The Warrior Queens: Boadicea’s Chariot
• Glenconner, Anne, Baroness: Lady in Waiting
• Green, Candida Lycett & Wales, Charles, Prince of: The Garden At Highgrove
• Junor, Penny: The Duchess, Camilla Parker Bowles
• Kent, Princess Michael of: Crowned in a Far Country
• Langley, Philippa & Jones, Michael: The Search for Richard III, The King’s Grave
• Lisle, Leanda de: Tudor, The Family Story
• Low, Valentine: Courtiers, The Hidden Power Behind the Crown
• Mayer, Catherine: Charles, The Heart of a King
• Phillips, Charles: Kings & Queens of Great Britain
• Plumb, Sir John Harold: The First Four Georges
• Rhodes, Margaret: The Final Curtsey
• Weir, Alison: Katherine Swynford

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY & IDEAS

• Attenborough, Sir David: Life on Earth
• Darwin, Charles & Leakey, Richard: The Illustrated Origin of Species
• Dawkins, Richard
  • The Extended Phenotype
  • The Greatest Show On Earth
• Freeman, Betty Jo; Ornitz, Edward M. & Tanguay, Peter E.: Autism, Diagnosis, Current Research & Management
• Garner, Alan: The Voice That Thunders
• Harari, Yuval Noah: Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow
• Shennan, Stephen: Genes, Memes & Human History

SECOND WORLD WAR

Churchill manages to appear on this list twice as an author and twice as a subject.

• Beevor, Sir Anthony
  • D-Day
  • Stalingrad
• Bryant, Sir Arthur: Triumph in the West
• Bryant, Sir Chris: The Glamour Boys
• Cawthorne, Nigel: Fighting Them on the Beaches
• Churchill, Sir Winston: The Second World War, Vol. I
• Faulks, Sebastian: The Vintage Book of War Stories
• Felton, Mark: Zero Night
• Gillies, Midge: The Barbed-Wire University
• Levine, Joshua: Dunkirk, The History Behind The Major Motion Picture
• Lomax Eric: The Railway Man
• Roberts of Belgravia, Andrew, Baron: The Storm of War
• Trigg, Jonathan: D-Day Through German Eyes
• Wilson, Kevin: Men of Air, The Doomed Youth of Bomber Command

TELEVISION

• Jay, Sir Antony & Lynn, Jonathan: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker Vol. II (Yes, Prime Minister)
• Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John: The Second Book of General Ignorance (QI)
• McCann, Graham: The Story of a Television Classic (Dad’s Army)
• Patterson, Dan: Only Book You’ll Ever Need (Mock the Week)
• Porter, Richard: And On That Bombshell (Top Gear)

MISCELLANEOUS

• Automobile Association:
  • 250 Tours of Britain
  • Book of British Villages
• Lewis, Oliver: The Orwell Tour
• Jordison, Sam & Kieran, Dan: Crap Towns Returns
• Marshall, Enid Ann: General Principles of Scots Law
• Which?: Book of Tax 1985/86
• Wood, Michael: In Search of Shakespeare

*Unfortunately I left this one for some weeks in the boot of my car and upon eventually retrieving it I discovered the floor was damp. I can’t put it back on the shelf until the mold has been treated. (UPDATE 3rd February – I found another copy of Beningbrough Hall in a different charity shop for half the price at which I bought the first one.)
**These were purchased as a set for £15. Carrying them out of the shop was a bit tricky. I also acquired Volume 9, Sauron Defeated, as a gift in 2020. These may technically belong in the non-fiction section as the series constitutes more of a literary making-of documentary than a pure immersive story.