On a stun­ning day like today, what could be a bet­ter way to use your lunch hour than tak­ing the cable car up the hill to Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty and check­ing out the sale at Vic Books? With books start­ing at 50 cents, this is how I keep my book­shelves over­loaded.

There’s only a week and a half more to go, but new stock is con­stant­ly added, there’s 25% off fic­tion not already reduced on 17th May; and 25% off non-fic­tion not already reduced on the 24th. The sale fin­ish­es Fri­day 25th May and the shop’s open dai­ly from 8am-6pm. Oh, and due to a ter­ri­ble mishap with sup­pli­ers, they have 100 copies of Ann Coul­ter’s Slan­der for 50 cents each, which is per­fect if you’re in the mood for a good old-fash­ioned book burn­ing to warm the autumn nights. Hur­rah!