... courtesy, mostly, of an extended visit to the new Foyles flagship store in Charing Cross Road, plus Easter gifts, plus assorted other places:
Everyman Library Classics - London Stories
Simon Callow - Charles Dickens
Paula Byrne - The Real Jane Austen
Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue
Mikhail Bulgakov - A Country Doctor's Notebook
J.M. Coetzee - The Master of Petersburg
Alice Munro - Friend of My Youth
Alice Munro - The Love of a Good Woman
Emma Healey - Elizabeth Is Missing
Wallace Stegner - Wolf Willow (which I've read, but heretofore didn't own)
International Thriller Writers (Various Contributors; General Editor: David Baldacci) - Face Off
Michael Connelly - The Gods of Guilt
James MacManus - Black Venus
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Simon Sebag Montefiore - One Night in Winter
... plus Stephen Sondheim's Gypsy at the Savoy Theatre, starring the incomparable Imelda Staunton at her knock-your-socks-off best – as Mama Rose, of course – and Peter Davison as Herbie, with Lara Pulver acquitting herself tremendously well, too, as Louise (Gypsy Rose Lee).
Plus (cough) an Easter Saturday shopping trip also involving various other places, such as Fortnum & Mason, Whittard of Chelsea, and a number of purveyors of beauty products doing business chiefly in Westminster and the West End ...