Quote of the Week

Earlier this week, Simon S of Savidge Reads described Persephone Books as “the Cath Kidston of the book world”, which filled me with utter delight as never a truer thing was said. To anyone outside the UK, Cath Kidston is a designer who uses classic style prints for the discerning home and individual (the pattern [...]

Little Boy Lost

I purchased Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski in February of this year (I tend to purchase the Classics from online booksellers and the dove-greys from Persephone themselves, which is why I can be clear on when I bought it) and I am ashamed that I haven’t read it until now. Not ashamed because it [...]

Persephone Update 12 & Prize

It’s the last day of Persephone Reading Week, everyone; are you as sad about that as I am? I have enjoyed myself immensely and had such a wonderful reading experience yesterday with my Persephone of the day, Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski (review forthcoming). I will be rounding up over the next couple of [...]

Persephone Update 11

This evening’s links for you before I curl up with what remains of Little Boy Lost By Marghanita Laski: Swati has written a comprehensive and illuminating review of Round About a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves, which I am now most curious to read. fleur fisher provides a look at one of the [...]

Persephone Update 10

hjelliot has very kindly provided us with another review, this time for Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd: Miss Ranskill Comes Home begins with a burial. It is a bleak beginning however ridiculous, but we know she is rescued and returns to ‘civilization.’ This return, a return she has dreamt of all these [...]

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