The Blue Bird and the Lightning: Secret Letters to Watkins Bookshop - Couverture souple

Tong, Athena; Cranswick, Jeremy

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798950183188

Editeur : Bobcat Press, 2026

Synopsis

For readers who have cherished Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road, here is a correspondence for the age of exile, memory, and lightning.

A manuscript travels from Chiang Mai to a London bookshop. Four years of letters begin.

When Athena Tong, a poet living in Chiang Mai, sends her work to Jeremy Cranswick, who has worked at London's Watkins Books since 1990, an exchange about reading and publication becomes an unexpected friendship across generations, cultures, and continents.

Like 84, Charing Cross Road, this book begins with a love of books and the rare intimacy of two people who have never met. But these letters travel further: into poetry, music, philosophy, faith, memory, war, freedom, and the moral pressures of public life.

Across four years, Athena and Jeremy ask what it means to remain awake to history, to preserve memory when it is threatened, and to speak truthfully in an uncertain world.

Part literary correspondence and part philosophical reflection, The Blue Bird and the Lightning is a moving record of friendship, moral courage, and the enduring human need to read, think, and answer one another.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bobcat Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798950183188
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible