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November's Crate - The Little Prince
November’s book crate is now available! This month’s book box subscription is themed around one of our all time favourites, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It’s filled to the brim with literature inspired goodies, including books (of course), tea, stationery and much more - all of them sharing the same design and aesthetic. For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, here’s...
Celebrating Oscar Wilde's Birthday
Oscar Wilde was born 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. Author of a number of great works, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest being the most acclaimed. Wilde excelled throughout his education, first at Trinity College, Dublin and then at Magdalen College, Oxford. Relative success the young writer and he later settled in London where he met and married his...
The Origin of Sayings
There are so many sayings that we use in our everyday language that, despite being odd and somewhat bizarre, have become so commonplace we don’t think to question where they came from . Just who is “Bob“ and why is he my uncle?! We wanted to take a more detailed look at some of these phrases and where they derived from.  * “Sleep Tight” Meaning...