We got sent books from the UK from my good friend
My Wife got
'The line of Beauty' by Alan Hollinghurst (its about the Thatcher years)
I got
'How to be a Canadian' by Will and Ian Ferguson (

)
and my Wife got me
'The Fly in the Ointment and Dr Joe & what you didnt know' both by Dr. Joe Schwarcz
and of course the "Guinness book of Records" which I've been getting since I was 7 (I must start reading them!!)
