Events
On Thursday September 23rd there will be a showing of the film of Still Missing, Without a Trace, starring Kate Nelligan, for which Beth Gutcheon wrote the script, at the British FiIm Institute 21 Stephen Street W1 at 2.30 and there is tea and a discussion afterwards. The cost is £25.
There will be a Lunch on Monday October 18th to celebrate the publication a hundred years ago that day of EM Forster’s Howards End. The speaker will be Sam West, who played Leonard Bast in the 1992 film. This event is sold out.
The Persephone Bookshop in Kensington closed on June 19th. We had two good years there, but the combined pressures of the slightly out-of-the-way location; its being surrounded by antique shops; and trying to compete against amazon – all meant that although the customers who came in simply loved the shop, we could not justify staying on once the two year lease had expired. But to make something positive out of the return of the bookshop to Lamb’s Conduit Street: there is now a table of the Fifty Books we Wish we had Published; we can order any book, new or vintage, and either get it in to the shop as rapidly as possible (often in 24 hours) or send it for the normal charge of £2.
The sixth Persephone Lecture will be given by David Kynaston, author of the two hugely successful volumes, Austerity Britain and Family Britain, at the Art Workers Guild 6 Queen Square WC1 on Wednesday November 24th at 6.30; the price (£20) includes wine and cheese straws beforehand (doors open at 6) and afterwards. The previous lecturers have been Salley Vickers, Hermione Lee, Penelope Lively, Elaine Showalter and Bee Wilson.
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 September 1st when we shall discuss The Village by Marghanita Laski. And by October 6th Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper will have reprinted and we shall discuss that.
The Teatime Reading Group at Lamb's Conduit Street is on the second Thursday of the month from 3.30-5. It is reading through the entire list of Persephone books except the ten Classcs. On Thursday September 9th we shall discuss The Home-Maker.
Find out more about past Persephone Events.
The Persephone Forum, an online reading group, went live on June 1st. The first book to be discussed online was William - an Englishman and the second is Mariana; during August it will be Someone at a Distance.
