INTRODUCTION
One day in the offices of Batsford Books the gardening editor was having coffee with the poetry editor. ‘We’re thinking of publishing an anthology of poems about London,’ the poetry editor said. ‘Do you know anyone who might be interested in editing it?’. ‘Oh yes,’ said the gardening editor. ‘My author Jane is bound to be interested. She lives in London, works part-time in a bookshop and I’m sure she reads lots of poetry.’
Being a bit of a jack of all trades and possessed with boundless enthusiasm, I said I’d love to edit the anthology. The books on the following pages are the result of that coffee break.
There are also Bedside Companions; these collections are a mix of fact, fiction, prose, poetry, adults’ and children’s books, with a reading for every day of the year.