The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street:
Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952–73
edited by John Saumarez Smith
This is the first collection of Mitford letters that I have read, after a couple of years of build-up, and I must confess that I feel a little bit let down…
84 Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
I hadn’t heard of this book until The Girl mentioned it on her old blog, but it turns out to be a bit of a modern classic. It’s quite simply the publication of actual letters exchanged between New York writer Helene Hanff and London bookshop Marks & Co. The correspondence lasted 20 years, from 1949 until the bookshop closed…