The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street (2004) (edit title/settings)

Eliza approved Eliza’s request to change the title of The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Wednesday, May 26, 2010.

Eliza changed the title of The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Wednesday, May 26, 2010.

Eliza approved Ballroom_Pink’s request to change the title of The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Wednesday, May 26, 2010.

Ballroom_Pink edited the settings of The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Tuesday, May 25, 2010.

• Added a setting: 10 Curzon Street
• Added a setting: London

Ballroom_Pink edited the characters of The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Tuesday, May 25, 2010.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Nancy Mitford
• Added a character: Heywood Hill

Ballroom_Pink changed the title of The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Tuesday, May 25, 2010.

Shelfari edited the subjects of The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Thursday, March 4, 2010.

• Added the subject: Subjects > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > United States > Classics
• Added the subject: Subjects > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > United States > Collections & Readers
• Added the subject: Subjects > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Authors
• Added the subject: Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Letters & Correspondence
• Added the subject: Subjects > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism
• Added the subject: Subjects > History

Shelfari edited the first edition of The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Sunday, February 7, 2010.

• changed the language: English
• changed the publisher: Frances Lincoln Ltd
• changed the publication date: 2004
• changed the ISBN: 0711224528
• changed the page count: 191

Shelfari edited the classification of The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Sunday, January 31, 2010.

• changed the Dewey Classification: 809

Shelfari edited the description of The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Thursday, September 3, 2009.

• '"This book is a little gem.'" Sunday Times "On every page there is at least one thought-provoking insight into life or literature and probably a laugh-out-loud moment for good measure.'" Country Life "An elegant and entertaining vignette." Antonia Fraser, The Spectator First time in paperback! 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. After the war she left to live in France, but she maintained an abiding interest in the shop, its stock, and the many and varied customers who themselves form a cavalcade of the literary stars of post-war Britain. Her letters to Heywood Hill advise on recent French titles that might appeal to him and his customers, gossip engagingly about life in Paris, and enquire anxiously about the reception of her own books, while seeking advice about new titles to read. In return Heywood kept her up to date with customers and their foibles, and with aspects of literary and bookish life in London. Charming, witty, utterly irresistible, the correspondence gives brilliant insights into a world that has almost disappeared. John Saumarez Smith is managing director of Heywood Hill.