The Persephone Oscars

The weekend has drawn to a close but the Persephone adulation is still going strong. Verity kindly posted our last round-up this morning and it was our largest yet! A quick peek at my Google Reader confirms that there have even been a few more posts that have filtered through since. We rounded up 100+ [...]

Blog Birthday Prize

As Persephone Reading Week draws to a close, there is still time to enter our competitions and prize draws, which we will close at Midnight (GMT) tonight. Good luck! In the meantime, I closed my blog birthday prize draw for a Persephone book of choice earlier today and used a true random number generator to [...]

Tea With Mr Rochester

The endpapers are taken from a 1949 design for a block-printed cretonne designed by the late Humphrey Spender, who very kindly allowed this fabric in his collection to be photographed for Persephone Books. Tea with Mr Rochester by Frances Towers is a Persephone book I purchased during the last Persephone Reading event after reading an [...]

Persephone Round-Up #3

Another lengthy round-up post for you! It is so encouraging to see how popular the event is and a more concentrated weekend means a flurry of posts. Iris reviews her very first Persephone, High Wages, that compelled her “to hold on tight and hug it all the time” Carol reviews the “quirky, charming” Mariana. Karen [...]

The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow

Endpapers taken from a printed velveteen designed by LF Day for Thomas Wardle & Co, sold by Liberty’s in 1888 © Victoria and Albert Museum The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow by Mrs Oliphant is one of the more recent additions to the Persephone Books catalogue, published last Autumn. The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow comprises of [...]

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