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Letters to my Daughter

Maya Angelou
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter To My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with...
Letters to my Daughter

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Schaffer
It’s 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can’t think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – by chance,...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Am I Alone in Thinking...?

Unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph
Iain Hollingshead
Readers of the brilliant Telegraph Letters page, as Ian Hislop recently lauded it, will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust...
Am I Alone in Thinking...?

Dear Granny Smith: A Letter from your Postman

Roy Mayall
This book is a letter to you, me, all of us, from a British postie. A fascinating, eye-opening, heartfelt letter which goes behind the scenes, through the ages,...
Dear Granny Smith: A Letter from your Postman

Ladies of Letters

Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield
This book is created by writers Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield. Irene Spencer and Vera Small - aka the ladies - are happily widowed and live in a...
Ladies of Letters

84 Charing Cross Road

Helen Hanff
It all began in 1949 with a letter enquiring about second-hand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to a bookshop at 84 Charing Cross...
84 Charing Cross Road

Letter to D

Andre Gorz
‘You’re 82 years old. You’ve shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you’re still beautiful, graceful and desirable’ – so begins André Gorz’s ‘open love letter’...
Letter to D

Dear Me

A letter to my Sixteen Year Old Self
Joseph Galliano
If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say? In Dear Me, some of the world's best loved personalities have written just...
Dear Me

Love Letters of Great Men and Women

Ursula Doyle
From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men and Women collects together some of the...
Love Letters of Great Men and Women

Letters from the Trenches

A Soldier of the Great War
Bill Lamin
A collection of the wonderfully moving and compelling letters of Private Harry Lamin, written home from the front line during the First World War. The book is edited...
Letters from the Trenches

Letters to my Grandchildren

Tony Benn
Tony Benn writes: As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is...
Letters to my Grandchildren

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Mary: We are looking in to creating a book list containing our readers' own books. I will keep your details on file until we set this up. In the meantime, if you want other Bookbite readers to comment on your work - go to our forum Share your unpublished work: http://forum.bookbite.org.uk/comments.php?DiscussionID=8&page=1#Item_0

Linda Konradsson
29 June 2010

Would you be willing to review my newly published book Capital Letters? It s a series of humorous letters written to a friend while commuting to London. There are many escapades and interesting people and place described throughout with comic verse to add alittle more amusement. Mary

Mary Levett
24 June 2010

Am just reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and can't recommend it enough. My daughter read it first and enjoyed it so much she bought me a copy for Mother's Day

Judith
31 March 2010

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