Books Glorious Books!

I decided today to do something that was something other than clothes and taking random pictures of my room. So today I thought I would give you guys a glimpse into my tiny *sob* book collection. I will pick out and highlight some of my favourites and hopefully something in there may interest you :). But I won't be giving lengthy prosaic reviews of any of the books because otherwise this will be a LOONNG post...and nobody wants to read that unless they have too...

 Some select books:  

• The Clash, The Clash - its the Clash, not much else to say really <3 

• Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, Metropolitan Museum, great look back at AM's collections with amazing photographs
• Shakespeare, Catherine Alexander with the RSC: amazing interactive book
• Punk: The Whole Story, good overview done by looking at separate bands

• Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, published to accompany the National Gallery exhibition - a book for any curious possible art or Da Vinci lover.
• Underwear:Fashion in Detail

• 

•  The Story of Art, E. H Gombrich - great book for people just getting into art or burgeoning art historians
• 33 Revolutions Per Minute, Dorian Lynskey - see previous review here
• OSCAR WILDE

•  Luella's Guide to English Style, Luella Bartley - nice amble through British style or 'Miss E'
• Mary Tudor, Anna Whitelock - interesting, informative biograhpy of an overlooked Queen - and written by my lecturer
• Classics by Homer

• Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
• 1984, George Orwell - one of my absolute favourite books
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte - another of my favourite books

 Selected poems by W.H. Auden, one of my favourite poets and one of my tattoos a line (well hald a line)  from his poem 'As I Walked Out One Evening' it says "Time watches from the shadow" (and the rest of the line is "...and coughs when you would kiss")

•  Au Bonheur des Dames, Emile Zola, see review here
• Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter - a feminist author, in this collection of short stories Carter takes classic fairytales such as Little Red Riding Hood and turns them on their head, in my opinion the best stories are the 'Bloody Chamber' and the 'Erl King'
• Tolstoy and Kerouack yet to read but are classics

•  Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle - I LOVE SHERLOCK HOLMES and do have the entire collection somewhere...but clearly not here
• The Great Gastby, F. Scott Fitzgerald - classic book on 1920s America - and I cannot wait for the movie!
• Faithfull, Marianne Faithfull - muse, icon, artist in her own right and tells it all ever so elegantly and charismaticly here

• How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran, a feminist book and actually made me laugh out loud so many times and shouting out with tears of laughter (and shame) 'It's true! So true!', and if you don't read her column in the times - do.
• The Invention of Murder, Judith Flanders - adds to my love of the wonderfully morbid and macabre Victorians
• Lizzie Siddal: the first supermodel, Lucinda Hawkesly - the burdens of being one of the greatest muses
• Redemption Song: the Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer, Chris Salewicz - my most read book - great informative biography and wonderfully detailed by someone who actually knew the man yet does not allow this to view him through rose tinted lenses by any means