The Paperback & Pulp Bookfair 2011 (London Park Plaza Hotel, 6 November)

Just a quick one before we get stuck in – er, so to speak – to that female British spy fiction author I promised on Friday, because I forgot to mention that the annual Paperback & Pulp Bookfair was being held today up at the Park Plaza Hotel in London. Longtime Existential Ennui readers – yes, I'm looking at you two again – may recall my having dedicated a series of posts last November to the wares I procured at the previous Bookfair, which took place at the end of October 2010, and I'm pleased to report that this year's event, which I trekked up to this morning from a still-smoky-smelling Lewes (5 November is kind of a big deal round my manor...), was even better. That may, in fact, have had more to do with my being slightly better informed re matters criminal and espionage-al – fictionally speaking – than I was a year ago, but certainly the room the Bookfair was in at the Plaza was bigger this year, and even more certainly I came away with quadruple (at least) the books I did last time out, and of a higher calibre, too.

Those books – both paperbacks and hardbacks – will be filtering on to Existential Ennui over the coming months, but as a sneak preview, I thought I'd offer a glimpse of the ill-gotten gains to prove just how profitable the 2011 Paperback & Pulp Bookfair was – both for myself and for the dealers who got my cash:

Feast your eyes on that little lot, my friends. Quite the haul, huh? My, but we've got some fine books blogging ahead of us, I can tell you. That's for the future, however. Next up on Existential Ennui... it's back to the British spy fiction...