Penned with grace and humour, Letters from Tove offers an almost seamless commentary on Tove Jansson's life as it unfolds within Helsinki's bohemian circles and her island home.

Winding along the road to Emmaus, Join two friends on the road as the joy of the first Easter dawns. This option is ideal if you prefer, at least for the time being, to have your book in digital form rather than on paper.Read it for yourself, but also put multiple copies into the hands of young disciples to help prepare them for Babylon. Waugh uses a lot of nicknames for various figures, like “Boots” for Cyril Connolly or “Honks” for Diana Cooper. Treasure forever: Letters to Open When… offers a meaningful way for friends, family, and long-distance loves to be there in spirit when they can't be t. The recipient gets to break the seals to find the greatest gift: their loved one's encouraging words whenever they need them the most. Imagining that Daniel had a mentor when he was taken into exile, this is a series of letters where the mentor explores faith and faithful living.

Seven years in the making, The Visual History of Type, McNeil's definitive survey of type and typography from 1450-2015, was published in 2017.We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. Let’s get there by way of Lord Byron – who led a very interesting life, certainly worthy of prying into. In a letter, your handwriting might grow bigger, the spaces between the lines might grow bigger, there are crossings out, there are spelling mistakes. Letter collections have existed as a form of literature in most times and places where letter-writing played a prominent part of public life. Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers.

It tells the moving story of Olive and her brother Cliff as they leave the heavily bombed streets of London and become evacuees on the coast of Devon, sent to live with an enigmatic lighthouse keeper. An unmissable anthology of correspondence by, to, and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as letters from both frustrated and adoring offspring. In the quality of the English, the syntax, the crispness which is such a distinctive aspect of Decline and Fall. And the correspondents themselves clearly realised that they were playing with fire, that this was a loose cannon – and as such all the more fascinating.Letters for Exiles brings Daniel’s experience to life as his mentor, Abel, disciples and equips him — and us — to flourish in exile. I am very excited to be able to present such an incredible actress to a large audience”, Bergroth says. He arrived in Italy with the French army [during the Napoleonic wars] and discovered Milan – which became, for him, the great city of the heart. In my own family, one of the most infuriating things was when my grandmother died, she had all my grandfather’s letters from the trenches – he was killed a few weeks before the Great War ended – but when my aunt emptied them out of my grandmother’s bureau, on them was “Please burn” and she put them on the fire. I think the great influence for him in childhood was his uncle, Romain Gagnon, who was a late 18th century libertine figure who would have appeared in Les Liaisons Dangereuses – a typical ancien régime womaniser.