Category: Persephone
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OK January has gone. Allelluia say I. As you have seen from my posts I fell into a reading stupor and could not summon up the energy to read anything new at all and did lots of re-reads. And, in fact, I enjoyed it so much that I think I am going to do a…
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The other day a package dropped though my letterbox containing my copy of Young Anne by Dorothy Whipple which I had ordered from Persephone Books. As well as the accompanying bookmark there was a photograph of Dorothy Whipple and on the back was written ‘To mark the publication of Young Anne (1927). All eight of…
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Persephone Books has recently reissued The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher in their classics format and I am delighted as this gives me an excuse to write about it again. It is my favourite title from this wonderful publisher and I have read it at least once a year ever since I first aquired it. …
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This book always makes my list of top ten favourite titles. Others may come and go but the Diary of a Provincial Lady is always there and always will be as I can never imagine tiring of reading it. This year EM Delafield is out of copyright and I am hoping that many of her…
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Have just finished watching the adaptation of this wonderful novel. Words cannot express just how utterly dire and dreadful and awful it was. Funereal pace, characters altered and changed, acting that would shame a school play, Grand Guignol gone barking. It was APPALLINGLY bad. What is the point of taking a charming and lovely little…
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In my earlier post on Persephone a few days ago, I said that I wondered how I managed before this publishing house arrived and after reading Patience by John Coates I will say it again. We all know what it is like to come across a book which beguiles us, leaves us unable to put…
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One hundred is such a nice round figure and always represents a benchmark or an achievement and, in this case, I am simply delighted to say that Persephone Books, has just published their latest two books which takes them up to this magic figure. I look back pre-Persephone and cannot imagine how I managed without…
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I occasionally post on Random about books recently received and awaiting my attention. I always have a think before I do this because I certainly don't want to crow about all the lovely stuff I get, but I do want to share it with you. Also, there are so many of them and it is…
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A few years ago I went to a book sale here in Colchester and came across a little pile of books by E H Young. They were all in the wonderful Virago green cover editions and were being totally ignored in the mad rush to grab the Dan Browns, Danielle Steeles and John Grishams piled…
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A few years back I was asked by an early visitor to Random, who noted that I love Victorian Literature, if I could name my favourite books from that genre. I have recently been asked the same question and so I have had a rethink and while I was jotting notes checked my earlier post…
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When I was painting my bookshelves last week and all my books were in heaps on the floor, I had a bit of a clear out (not a big one, just a few books went) and I realised that I had duplicate copies of many books. I remember my mum always used to ask me…
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As we all know by now, Persephone Books was founded for the purpose of 'republishing new and rediscovered 20th century fiction and non-fiction by women, for women and about women'. These elegant books with their grey covers and beautiful end papers chronicle the lives of women between and during the World Wars and as, with…
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I know I keep going on about my back, and I apologise, but when you can barely stand up straight without grimacing and wincing, it looms rather large. Heaven knows what I would be like if I was really ill. Anyway, getting better and can actually move about today but the need for comfort reading is…