Today’s letter is Q in the Really Like This Book scripts catch-up, and today’s author was a struggle to find. Q is not a common initial capital letter for anglophone surnames, and whoever I chose was going to be obscure. In the end, after consultating the online Literary Encyclopaedia, I had a choice of the classical … Continue reading Sir Arthur Quiller Couch and being Q
Category: Helene Hanff
A life in books: Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road
Today’s letter in the first Really Like This Book's podcast A-Z series is H, and today’s author is Helene Hanff (1916-97), oh blessed be her name. She spent her life trying to become a Broadway playwright, and ended up writing a best-selling novel about her relationship with a London antiquarian bookshop from the 1940s to … Continue reading A life in books: Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road
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