I had a lovely surprise yesterday when my mother and her partner sent my birthday present early-£100 of Amazon vouchers! So I had £135.60........now I have 58p!

I ordered one book for my daughter, one for my brother for Xmas and three DVDs (Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice and Wives and Daughters-all the BBC versions). Then I ordered 11 books for myself!

Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
Vintage Fear-Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales and Angela Carter's Bloody Chamber
The Whisperers:Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
The Complete Persepolis by Majane Satrapi
Kristin Lavransdatter
When Darkness Falls by Mercedes Lackey
Dont bet on the Prince:Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England by Jack Zipes
The Darcys and the Bingleys by Marsha Altman
Survivors by Terry Nation
How to Feed your family a healthy balanced diet, with very little money and hardly any time, even if you only have a tiny kitchen, only three saucepans-unless you count the garlic crusher. by Gill Holcombe