Christina Foyle

Foyle started working at her father's bookshop at age 17, and never left: Foyle's, on Charing Cross Road in London's West End, grew to 30 miles of shelves of books under her management. The store, started in 1904 by her father, was not known for modern efficiency: Miss Foyle, as she liked to be called, refused to allow books to be ordered over the telephone, and made clerks fill in all sales slips by hand -- cash registers were not allowed until recently. But she was known for her Literary Luncheons, where authors and customers could mix. The literary luminaries included Kingsley Amis, Charles de Gaulle, D.H. Lawrence, Yehudi Menuhin, J.B. Priestley, George Bernard Shaw, Margaret Thatcher, Evelyn Waugh and H.G. Wells. Foyle died June 8 at her home in Essex at 88. From This is True for 6 June 1999 Suggestions for further reading: The Help by Kathryn Stockett Amazon Price: $9.50 Customer Review: After sitting on my shelf for months I picked up The Help last Saturday and couldn't put it down. What a wonderful read. As a new bride in the early 70's I lived in central Mississippi for a few months. Being from New England I did not understand nor...   A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to ... by Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen Amazon Price: $12.00 Customer Review: We received this book two weeks after the latest estimated delivery date we were given when placing the order. We did finally receive it and it was exactly what we ordered.   Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan Amazon Price: $5.00 Customer Review: I have friends that read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and really loved it, but realistically I just knew I would never finish that book. I'm busy and anything over 200 pages is just not going to happen. So when I heard that "Food Rules" was basically a...   The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson Amazon Price: $5.50 Customer Review: It's too bad that Stieg Larsson could not have believed in his own talents enough to avoid appealing to the basest of human instincts to sell books. I bought Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to read for book club. But I'm sorry I spent one penny on it o...   Percy Jackson and the Olympians Paperback Boxed Set (Books 1-3) by Rick Riordan Amazon Price: $11.00 Customer Review: I'm 18 years old and I must say this is a great book. I, like most other older people who read this book, are big Harry Potter fans, hoping to fill that void. This book will do the trick. (Also, on another note, this review will be comparing the tw...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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