One Day by David Nicholls

For the first post in, again, quite some time, I have entered into dialogue my fellow blogger and friend, Simon of Stuck in a Book. Please enjoy our ramblings about One Day by David Nicholls (the obligatory orange jacket for the book accompany this post – it appears everywhere else so why not here?!) SIMON: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen was serendipitously pitched to me when I was in the mood for some jazz-age literature. On the back of watching the amazing HBO Martin Scorcese show Boardwalk Empire, Bright Young Things with its Roaring Twenties New York backdrop was exactly what I was craving and I devoured it immediately. [...]

The Romantics

I saw the film trailer for The Romantics a couple of months ago and was suitably intrigued to find out it was adapted from a novel with the same title (by the writer, who is also in the film industry). As it is not published in the UK, I plumped for a US copy (Picador) [...]

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