This is the true story of the twenty-year relationship between a New York writer and a gentlemanly London bookseller, as told through their correspondence. A must-read classic for bibliophiles, you'll feel compelled to discuss the heartwarming way books bring people together with all your book-loving buddies. If you're craving a gentle, warm, and witty read, this short book belongs on your nightstand.

The success of 84, Charing Cross Road enabled New Yorker Helene Hanff to finally travel to London; this is her memoir about that visit. Upon arrival Hanff encamps at the Hotel Kenilworth on Bloomsbury Street and is treated so graciously by her London hosts she dubs herself "Duchess." While in London she meets the family of the bookseller with whom she shared a lengthy correspondence (as captured in 84), visits historical sites, makes loads of friends, dines and lunches and walks in the gardens, and generally has a ball. This was exactly the right book at the right time.

If you loved Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road, read her witty memoir about Broadway in the forties. From the publisher: "Naive, nearsighted, frequently penniless but hopelessly stagestruck, she found her life governed by Flanagan’s Law: 'No matter what happens to you, it's unexpected.' Together with her best friend Maxine, an aspiring actress consigned to playing the comedy-ingénue in plays that regularly folded after five performances, she cultivated the 'delicate, illegal art of getting everything for nothing'—from free seats to every Broadway show and neighborhood movie and borrowed outfits from Saks to voice lessons for Maxine and Greek lessons for Helene."