June 2012

Our book choice for July 2012 is The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (a Memoir, a History) by Lewis Buzbee. This is a gorgeous ode to the beauties of bibliomania, with fascinating, warmly-written essays and personal and historical anecdotes on books and bookselling.

Our book choice for June 2012 is Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor. All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, Mrs. Palfrey strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer, Ludovic Meyer. Fate brings them together after she has an accident outside his basement flat.