The Book of Letters: How to Write a Letter for Every Occasion

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Bestselling British novelist Cara Hunter—author of the DI Fawley series and Murder in the Family—talks us through some of her favourite crime novels set in the city of dreaming spires.

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Included are standard form letters for numerous situations as well as invaluable tips for communicating the written word in the most effective way. There was a lot of snobbery about Byron, he really did stand on his aristocratic dignity a lot of the time. Funny, tragic, brilliantly incisive, historic, lyrical, romantic and studiedly offensive, this stupendous compendium of letters ancient and modern is my book of the year. He understands from personal experience what it means to live for God in environments where you might be standing alone, and he has dedicated years of his life to being a mentor to a generation of young disciples, helping prepare them for that very scenario.

How is reading Byron’s correspondence with his lovers any different to reading Cheryl and Ashley Cole’s messages to each other after some journalist has hacked their phone? This is definitely the book you should go for if you wish to offer a nicely designed hardcover with an elegant dust jacket.

His letters were written from all over the place and are crammed with all sorts of different subjects, because he led a very interesting life. I think that a different process goes on between brain and hand in the visual quality that a letter assumes. For example, there’s a letter which she wrote to Lord Lyons, British ambassador in Paris in the late 19th century, about the huge Paris funeral of Victor Hugo. Our entire organization was looking forward to providing our departing president with a heartfelt memento of his years of service with us.