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The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories & Lost Loves Found Inside Second-Hand Books · Compiled by W. B. Gooderham
""Fame, Emma, Fame!""
Dorothy Ann Lovell
29 January, 2024
"Bought 1932..."
Raymond Mortimer
30 November, 2023
"Sarah Pepper not Eva Lewin's!!"
Colm Tóibín
19 October, 2023
"How I live henceforth makes no difference to Darline - it makes a difference to me..."
Richard Holmes
26 July, 2023
""Getting used to living a very different life...""
Rudyard Kipling
14 July, 2023
"This book was given to me by my very dear old friend and comrade Mrs Brackenridge who passed over Jan 4th 1919..."
Charles Méryon
6 June, 2023
"Goodbye, Daniel Boone, Goodbye Sherlock Holmes..."
William Faulkner
1 June, 2023
"Interestingly the author of this booked [sic] killed himself in 2001..."
Dr Garth Wood
29 November, 2022
"I have sensitive skin. It peels during the winter, and I can't wear wool sweaters..."
Ernst Cassirer
29 October, 2022
"One of the last books I bought in England..."
Konrad Z. Lorenz
12 October, 2022
"I.B. died today..."
Isaiah Berlin
1 April, 2022
"Started whilst looking at military parades in Ηράκλειο..."
Leo Tolstoy
12 March, 2022
""Max Hastings was second wife's first boyfriend in London's Holland Park...""
Simon Jenkins
24 February, 2022
""I read this on honeymoon!""
A.J. Evans
12 January, 2022
"The most sensitive rag-doll I know..."
Gertrude Stein
13 September, 2021
"Chris Mullin in dubious company as Booker Prize Committee member..."
Chris Mullin
22 November, 2019