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Sigh. I wandered into Borders looking for Eamon Duffy's "The Stripping of the Altars", and wandered out minus said fascinating study of the late-Mediaeval/ early Reformation English church, but plus 'Cetaganda' - yes. more Vorkosigan.

The cover - it's an American edition - is seriously horrible, though. It looks like it's eligible for some sort of bad cover art prize (possibly, since it has a proud endorsement from the 'Romantic Times', the 'bad romance cover art' snorkackcatcher linked to the other day).

There's also something mildly annoying about buying a book for the same price in pounds as is given in dollars on the jacket, though that's hardly the American publisher's fault.

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It's a bit late to have found this page, but I think any of these would make fine Christmas gifts next year. Or birthday presents, perhaps.

http://bitterscroll.blogspot.com/2006/12/unlikely-germanic-book-ideas.html