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The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street by John Saumarez Smith
22.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Nancy Mitford was a brilliant personality, a remarkable novelist and a legendary letter writer. It is not widely known that she was also a bookseller. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in Heywood Hill's famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it when the male staff were called up for war service. A ...Show more
The Spy in the Bookshop : Letters between Heywood Hill and John Saumarez Smith 1966-74 by John Saumarez Smith (ed)
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Whilst compiling and editing "The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street", described as 'a little gem' by the "Sunday Times", John Saumarez Smith discovered that one side of that 'elegant and entertaining' ("Spectator") and 'thought provoking and... laugh out loud' ("Country Life") correspondence, had been to som ...Show more
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