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Books By The Bedside

13/7/2016

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Take a look at the picture above: does it fill you with horror or with excitement? Comely Bank Publishing author's Gordon Lawrie swings wildly between one and the other.

These are what his Goodreads page would term 'To-read', to which he's very specifically added his own category 'by the bedside'. He says it's a little intimidating to go to bed last thing at night and waken up first thing in the morning to piles of books that he's desperate to read but can't quite find the time for.

The problem, it seems is that his wife reads so much quicker than he does, and with many shared tastes in novels she constantly fizzes through books then lobs them over to his side of the bed with a 'that's a great book – read it'. And he wants to: it's just that there aren't enough hours in the day.

On the other hand, he's only too aware how lucky he is. With such a cornucopia at hand, he knows just what a joy it is to have the chance to choose from such riches.

So – what do you feel? Would that collection of books as yet unread get you down? Or would it have you licking your lips? Answers below, please...

Gordon Lawrie's own books can all be found at the
Comely Bank Publishing bookshop page.
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    Gordon Lawrie is the founder and managing director of Comely Bank Publishing, and the author of Four Old Geezers and a Valkyrie. The Discreet Charm of Mary Maxwelll-Hume and The Blogger Who Came in from the Cold. He is also a flash fiction aficionado. He’s currently in search of that book that earns him a fortune. 

    Emma Baird is a freelance/blogger, and the author of Katie and the Deelans. Since then she's moved onto pastures new where she self-publishes experimental YA and chick-lit novels both online and as print-on-demand.

    Jane Tulloch is the author of Our Best Attention (published 2016) Attention Assured (2017) and now has a further lease of life as an expert on the history of Edinburgh's lost department stores. She is relishing the freedom of writing an (almost!) complete pack of lies after years of writing very serious reports on her professional topic of autism in adults.

    Eric J. Smith lives in Maryland, USA, and is the author Not a Bad Ride: Stories from a Boomer's Life on the Edge, which is available on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and iTunes.​

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