Events

 There are no Persephone events in January as some of us will be in Paris for the month! If you live there and would like to get together for a book group, please telephone or email.

    Diana Athill will again talk about Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, Persephone book No.92, at a Persephone Tea on Thursday February 9th from 3:30 to 5:30. THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT.

   There will be another showing of the unexpectedly good film of Little Boy Lost (1953) on Thursday February 23rd at 2 o’clock at the British Film Institute 21 Stephen Street W1. Lunch will be served at 1. THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT.

    On Thursday March 8th at Tapas from 6–8 Anne Harvey and Simon Brett will give a performance of Harry and Virginia about Virginia Graham (who wrote Consider the Years) and her father Harry Graham.

    On Wednesday March 21st at Tapas from 6–8 Ann Thwaite and Gretchen Gerzina, both authors of biographies of Frances Hodgson Burnett, will talk about the different biographical methods they used to explore her life and work.

 All Persephone events now cost £20. Please ring the office in order to book a place.

Book Groups

The Reading Group in Lamb's Conduit Street is from 6.30-8 on the first Wednesday of each month; bread, cheese and madeira are served and the cost is £10. The next one is on Wednesday February 1st when we shall discuss The Journal of Katherine Mansfield.

The Teatime  Reading Group at Lamb's Conduit Street is on the second Thursday of the month from 3.30-5; tea and cake is served and the cost is £10. It is reading through the entire list of Persephone books except the ten Classics. In February the reading group will be on the first Thursday of the month due to the Tea with Diana Athill which is taking place the following Thursday. So on Thursday 2nd February we shall discuss Consider the Years by Virginia Graham.

Find out more about past Persephone Events.

The Persephone Forum: the book being discussed in January is Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.