Digitally enlightened reading: "How to Thrive in the Digital Age" by Tom Chatfield

It is unreasonable, a contradiction in terms actually, to expect serendipity. So when, after an interval of only two weeks, I again stepped into the Foyles at St Pancras station, it was with the sensation of making unreasonable demands on Providence.

Subterranean reading: "London Under" by Peter Ackroyd

The Great Serendipity Bookshop has struck again! I have had cause to mention the Foyles in St. Pancras railway station before as a reliable source of unexpected in-between books: this one and this one being the examples, and now it's happened again. On this occasion, in contrast to the two previous occasions, I had actually heard of this book before I entered the shop, but only semi-consciously, which is perhaps why this book even more egregiously leapt off the bookshelf at me.