House of Twenty Thousand Books

This is the story of Sasha Abramsky''s grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, and of their unique home at 5 Hillway, around the corner from Hampstead Heath. In their semi-detached house, so deceptively ordinary from the outside, the Abramskys created a remarkable House of Books. It became the repository for Chimen''s collection of thousands upon thousands of books, manuscripts and other printed...