Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, "The Chalet School at War"/"The Highland Twins at the Chalet School"

Two books in one. A large chunk keeps falling out of the Highland Twins part of the book, but so far the Chalet School at War remains intact.

Aside from alarums and excursions of the more than usually sensational sort, there being Nazis, U-boats and spies to contend with, not to mention moving the entire establishment, and Welsh and Gaelic being added to the polyglot cornucopia, this is pretty much Chalet School business as usual. Just a little more so. A nice unchallenging read (apart from suppressing my murderous inclinations towards Joey, that is...)

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/9881025/

Neil Gaiman, "Neverwhere"

When I was little my ma used to read to me from Eleanor Farjeon's Nursery Rhymes of London Town, a lovely book that made the names that make London what it is into people. (King's cross/ What shall we do?/ His purple robe/ is torn in two...) It was a long time before I saw London itself, and so even to this day the London map in my mind is populated by these personages. Neverwhere is a book that gets this, that makes London a place of two layers, of a richly peopled fantasy world running beneath the surface. Dark and funny, with heroes and villains and swashbuckling, and a wonderful sense of history. My only gripe, really, is that this was an American edition, and so I was constantly being thrown off by pants and flashlights.

Other than that, this was a rather fantastic book, in every sense of the word.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7604999

Anthony Hope, "Rupert of Hentzau"

Re-read again, again for fanfic.