{"id":136525,"date":"2023-05-05T23:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fake-books-charles-dickens-got-there-first-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T23:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:38:18","slug":"fake-books-charles-dickens-got-there-first-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fake-books-charles-dickens-got-there-first-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake books? Charles Dickens got there first | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nShelf-esteem | Gardening tips | Gruff justice | The power of voting | Scathing school reportsFake books are older than you seem to think (Fake books: the controversial interiors trend for literary pretenders, 1 May). Charles Dickens created \u201cfaux-aged spines\u201d to line the door of his study at Gad\u2019s Hill Place, his house in Kent. He gave them such titles as History of a Short Chancery Suit in Twelve Volumes, and Hansard\u2019s Guide to Refreshing Sleep. I doubt it was to show people that he was literate. Harland WalshawLympstone, Devon\u2022 I would love to see Adrian Chiles\u2019s gardening show (The unspoken truth about gardening? It is a relentless, unwinnable war, 4 May) as I too come from the Attila the Hun school of gardening, and feel I never got far enough to learn from the others. Margaret Squires St Andrews, Fife Continue reading…
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