Greetings, dear readers, from Dartmoor, Highbury, the Canaries, Norfolk, Leyton, Derbyshire, Richmond and Warwickshire, but not from Hoxton Square, for the book foxes have gone to earth until 3 January and this email has been delivered to your inbox thanks to technological wizardry.
We hope you’ve enjoyed a happy book-filled Christmas so far. Before we look ahead to the new year – and towards our forthcoming publications – we’re taking a look back at those lingering memories of Christmas, and shining a light on Erich Kästner’s much-loved memoir of a childhood in Dresden at the end of the nineteenth century.
When I Was a Little Boy shines with the everyday happiness of a young boy’s life in a close-knit, hardworking family, set against the backdrop of the ancient city with its baroque buildings, its trams, and its glittering Christmas shops. Please find an extract below. We hope you’ll enjoy it, and that 2025 brings much more good reading.
With best wishes, as ever, from the SF office staff
Izzy, Rebecca, Isabel, Jennie & Jess
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