Persephone Round-Up #2

Persephone Reading Week is in full swing with some great posts and encouraging enthusiasm. My lovely co-host posted the first round-up yesterday evening and below are the posts that have appeared since. Speaking of Verity, today she has posted a useful resource for newbies to Persephone Books and Persephone Reading Week, which also provides a [...]

Temporarily Missing Competition

The competition isn’t what is temporarily missing… To win one of two copies of Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon (hence my post this morning about the book – how could you read it and not want to win a copy?!) please fill in the missing title to these Persephone opening lines. Email me at claire.boyle@gmail.com [...]

Previously Reviewed Persephones

For those Persephone Reading Weekend participants who are joining us for the first time, clicking the Persephone Reading Week tag (linked to here) will bring up all of my posts during previous events; in turn, some of those will round-up a lot of the posts that featured on other blogs (my lovely co-host, Verity, rounded [...]

Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon

Endpapers taken from 1970s knit fabric in private collection When I read Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski a year ago, I felt as if my heart had been ripped out in the heightened emotion of the closing pages; with Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon, the emotional intensity was present from the opening page and [...]

Persephone Reading Weekend – Welcome!

Welcome to the start of Persephone Reading Weekend. Verity and I are very excited to be hosting another blogging extravaganza celebrating our love of the dove-grey covered volumes published by Persephone Books. This is the third time that we’ve run an event and hope that you will have fun joining in, whether it is your [...]

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