Weekend Reading

I normally have two books on the go at any time – one fiction, and one non-fiction – and it’s rare that I finish them at the same time, but today is one of those days. And it’s Friday, so I figure, what the hey, I’ll do a version of Friday Reads.

So the two books I’ve selected are:

The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Haywood Hill 1952-1973
by John Saumarez Smith (Editor)
isbn: 9780711224520
Publication Date: January 1, 2004
Pages: 191
Genre: Non-fiction
Publisher: Frances Lincoln

This collection of previously unpublished correspondence with Heywood Hill is filled with gossip about life in Paris, tales of her writing life, and her own personal request for books. Hill in turn provides news of customers - many of whom were the elite of post-war London - and reports on how Mitford's books were being revived in London. It is an intimate and charming look at a world that has all but disappeared and will appeal to anyone interested in postwar English literature and/or high society.

Did you know Nancy Mitford worked in a bookshop? I did not, and having just finished Don’t Tell Alfred recently, this seemed a timely choice.

Tell Me No Lies
by Shelley Noble
isbn: 9780765398741
Series: Lady Dunbridge Mystery #2
Publication Date: May 11, 2019
Pages: 364
Genre: Fiction, Historical, Mystery
Publisher: Forge

A modern woman in 1907, Lady Dunbridge is not about to let a little thing like the death of her husband ruin her social life. She’s ready to take the dazzling world of Gilded Age Manhattan by storm.

With the elegant Plaza Hotel and The Metropolitan Museum of Art as the backdrop, romance, murder, and scandals abound. Someone simply must do something. And Lady Dunbridge is happy to oblige.

I read the first book in this series and remember very, very little, but I have a vague idea that I sort of liked it. So I bought the second one. We’ll see.

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