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The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories & Lost Loves Found Inside Second-Hand Books · Compiled by W. B. Gooderham
"... Obedient, we admire / Galleries of dead poets, great and small..."
Thomas Hutchinson (Editor)
18 March, 2024
""We met when you were my dead wife...""
George Saunders
16 November, 2023
"I love you standing up, sitting down, but most of all horizontally..."
Ruth Werner
4 October, 2023
"Now that I have trimmed my moustache I thought this book may be useful..."
Hugh Morris
24 December, 2022
""...for I was Shakespeare's countryman and were you not my friend?""
Helen Waddell
8 September, 2022
""Time past and time future are perhaps both present In time present. Or the converse. Wotever.""
Penelope Lively
19 November, 2021
"Not today Satan..."
Bianca Del Rio
8 July, 2021
"I got this book because on our 2nd date you mentioned that Lolita was one of the books that you kept lending to other people and they never returned it back to you..."
Vladimir Nabokov (ed. by Alfred Appel, Jr)
28 May, 2021
"here is a book for you to throw out of the window..."
Glenda Leeming
10 March, 2020
"Role [sic] the wooden rocks between your palms..."
Jonathan Raban
20 December, 2019
"Oh, what a Happy Christmas!"
Michael Green
"That she may learn the 'Beastlie Diaries of the Heathen'..."
R.R. Marett
13 April, 2019
"Some dreams were destined to sink..."
Louis Untermeyer
11 January, 2019
"The result of a "cup of tea" at "the army & Navy"..."
Aldous Huxley
13 August, 2018
"May your dice always be kind to you..."
Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone
8 October, 2017
"No doubt we'll see this sun rise and set a few times b4 we're through."
Julia Kristeva
23 December, 2015