Greetings from Hoxton Square, where we’re resolutely looking ahead to the joys of spring as the seemingly endless darkened nights give way to steadily longer days, and the first snowdrops begin to push through the frost.
Here in the office, we’re relying on a startlingly large amount of tea and revisits to some favourite reads, both new and old, to help us through the winter months: with enthusiasms ranging from a Penelope Fitzgerald novel found in a second-hand rummage; a story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives; a tale of two men meeting in the mountains after decades spent apart; and an escape to the glittering Jazz Age with the other Fitzgerald.
With Saint Valentine’s Day just around the corner, those who would like to send a gift to a loved one in time for 14 February might like to use the code FEBWRAP at the website checkout for free gift-wrap.
We’ll be back next week with a preview of our forthcoming limited-edition hardback memoir, Nigel Nicolson’s Portrait of a Marriage, which is rolling off the printing press as we type. Meantime we’re heading back to Issue 9 of Slightly Foxed (Spring 2006) to join Christopher Rush as he recalls his experience of first literary love.
Please scroll down the page to read Chris’s article and, to follow, a few suggestions for gifts and links to some of the books we’ve been rereading this month.
With best wishes from the SF office staff
Izzy, Edie, Isabel, Jennie & Rebecca
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