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[Keith Roberts]

Sandie

Waterstone's are quite capable of accepting orders for books that are unavailable. Rat's Alley has been unobtainable for quite a time. You were very fortunate.

Keith

[Ken Lees]

This week's purchases from N&MP (from the sale section):

In Enemy Hands: A British Territorial Soldier in Germany 1915-1919 (£3.96)
TERRITORIALS 1908-1914 A Guide for Military and Family Historians (£12.76)
Airfields & Airmen of Cambrai (£3.16)  
Airfields And Airmen Of The Somme (£3.16)
GERMAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1917-1918 Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives (£3.96)  
Germans at Arras Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives (£3.96)  
CONSCRIPTS Forgotten Men of the Great War (£3.16)  
STANLEY SPENCER’S GREAT WAR DIARIES (£6.36)
PATHS OF GLORY The French Army, 1914-18: The French Army, 1914-1918 (£3.16)
MASSACRE ON THE MARNE Life & Death in the 2/5th West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War (£4.76)  
DAY WE WON THE WAR Turning Point at Amiens 8 August 1918 (£7.96)  
FOR KING AND COUNTRY VOCES FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR (£4.76)  
HOW THE WAR WAS WON (£3.16)  
CIVIL SERVICE RIFLES IN THE GREAT WAR ‘ALL BLOODY GENTLEMEN’ (£3.16)  
‘LOOK TO YOUR FRONT’: Studies in The First World War (£2.36)

And from the National Archives (Sale section):

Swansea Pals (£5.99)
Bradford Pals (£5.99)
Cheshire Bantams (£5.99)
Liverpool Pals (£7.99) *Sorry, Sandie  

That lots should stop the shelves blowing away!  

[Sandie]

Oh no! I got an email from the National Archives about their book sale and didn't read it.

[Sandie]

'Waterstone's are quite capable of accepting orders for books that are unavailable. Rat's Alley has been unobtainable for quite a time. You were very fortunate'.
Had I have thought at the time I would have posted news of Poundland's stock on here.

[Ken Lees]

Keith Roberts, on 12 January 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

Waterstone's are quite capable of accepting orders for books that are unavailable. Rat's Alley has been unobtainable for quite a time. You were very fortunate.

I won't buy from Waterstones (no apostrophe now, apparently) again because my wife ordered something from them as a present for me, before Christmas. They failed to deliver, offered no explanation until pressed after Christmas when they said that their supplier was out of stock. A telephone call to the supplier revealed that Waterstones had never placed an order with them and that they had plenty of stock. When challenged, Waterstones offered no explanation, just a standard e-mail acknowledging that we had cancelled the order. And guess what - when we queried the cancellation and insisted that we hadn't cancelled any order, they didn't reply. Having just checked, their website shows the item as unavailable.

No more money from this household to any company that provides such abysmal service.  

Should have gone to Specsavers Linesman  

[squirrel]

Keith Roberts, on 12 January 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

Sandie

Waterstone's are quite capable of accepting orders for books that are unavailable. Rat's Alley has been unobtainable for quite a time. You were very fortunate.

Keith

W H Smith also.

[Keith Roberts]

I visited Superbook in Lyndhurst yesterday and came away with a copy of "The Devil's Chariots" for £4.99. They had as Norman said in his earlier post quite a good selection.   Of course late last night I found my other copy of that volume. The monthly antiquarian book fair there  was disappointing, and I went on my way for a forest walk with my wallet almost intact.

Keith

[tc2]

If Your Reading This - Last Letters from the Front by Sian Price
on sale at The Works, at the Old Barn Garden Centre, near Ashington, Sussex for £4.99