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The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, Nick Bantock

If you like postcards, stamps, mail art, and beautiful correspondence, you will love these books (the trilogy: Griffin & Sabine, Sabine’s Notebook, and The Golden Mean). Griffin is a postcard designer in London, and Sabine is a nature and stamp illustrator in the South Pacific, and these three books chronicle their extraordinary correspondence in the most delightfully tactile volumes I think I’ve ever held. There is romance, intrigue, and just plain voyeurism at times (you’re not just reading their mail, you’re literally plucking letters from envelopes that are attached to the pages of the books — delightful!), and I’m now hopelessly in love with these two and am, at the moment, taking my time with the second trilogy (The Gryphon, Alexandria, and The Morning Star). I don’t want it to end.