Collecting Piz Gloria: A Trip To Daylesford

Last Monday my wife and I spent a day in Daylesford. The drive took just under two hours and we arrived at 10am, just as the Mill Markets were opening. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of the building from the outside (it's basically a giant shed), but here's one I've borrowed from their website.

Inside the building there are seemingly hundreds of stalls, many selling books. As you can see below I took a few pics however to avoid repetition I only included one photo of Sebastian Faulks' "Devil May Care". It was very popular at many of the other stalls too.

About an hour and a half later we left the Mill Markets and drove into Daylesford proper.

Here we visited Paradise Bookshop. I managed to find five Bond novels in the store including a Jonathan Cape first edition of Ian Fleming's "Live And Let Die". It was a nice copy but my wife wouldn't let me buy it. Only gagging... it was a little bit over my budget !

I also found this unusual copy of "Devil May Care"... which again I didn't purchase for different reasons (this version is obviously not a Bond novel). What is it with Daylesford and "Devil May Care" ? They're everywhere !

After lunch we visited the Book Barn just near Daylesford Lake. Here I purchased my first book of the day, a Pan copy of Robert Markham's "Colonel Sun". I already have several copies of this paperback however as it was in such good condition I thought one more wouldn't hurt. They also had a copy of John Gardner's "Licence Renewed" and another "Devil May Care".