2008 archive
December 2008In The Sunday Times Karen Robinson chose Miss Pettigrew read by Frances McDormand as one of her eight best audiobooks of the year. » more
November 2008Kerry Friel of Newsday chose Little Boy Lost as one of her nine best books of 2008. » more
October 2008In the Daily Telegraph Gill Hornby began her column by saying: 'The days are closing in, the pound is dropping, but there is comfort to be had: the latest Persephone Books catalogue arrives this week, and it is a cracker. » more
September 2008The Los Angeles Times published an article headed 'Reprints are king in parts of book world.' Charles Taylor commented that 'reintroduced books are as eagerly awaited as any mainstream house's seasonal list'. » more
August 2008We have been filmed three times this month, once for BBC1, once for Monocle (click on the link and then allow the film to load) and once for Channel 4 (click on the link below to view the film). » more
Wall Street Journal - August 2008The Wall Street Journal article described us and New York Review Books in New York 'finding unlikely success in the overcrowded book industry by turning out reprints of decades-old titles. Some are even getting noticed by Hollywood.' » more
July 2008Miss Pettigrew is one of the Sunday Times 100 best holiday reads. » more
The Hill - June 2008Persephone Books has recently arrived in Kensington Church Street. Pendle Harte, editor of The Hill meets its founder. » more
Time Out - May 2008'This tiny publishing house-cum-lovely bookshop has breathed new life into 78 neglected interwar fiction titles' » more
The Daily Telegraph - May 2008Thanks to a tiny publishing house, novels our mothers - and grandmothers - loved have new fans. Now with a film version of one set to be this summer's hit romcom. What is the secret of Persephone's success? » more
The Financial Times - May 2008'The publishing house Persephone Books is a labour of love for its founder. As the company opens a second bookstore, she tells Rebecca Tyrrel about her passion for rediscovering neglected 20th century classics.' » more
The Observer - April 2008How a 1938 novel - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - led to a surprise box- office hit. » more
Publishers Weekly - March 2008'There is no 'official' movie tie-in edition of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, the 1930s period film starring Amy Adams and Frances McDormand currently in theaters. However, a small English publishing house, Persephone Books, which re-releases forgotten classics by 20th-century (mostly) women writers and has two stores in London, has sold 23,000 copies worldwide of its version of Winifred Watson's novel. It's the biggest seller in Persephone's nine-year history.' » more
Newsday -March 2008Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is perhaps the happiest, most ebullient piece of fiction every written for adults.' Newsday.com » more
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