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Wall Street Journal
The 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.'
August 2007

Period Living
Some of our books and endpapers were included in the Interiors section that features vintage fabrics designed in the mid-20th century.
June 2007

Independent on Sunday
The ABC section featured Heywood Hill Books in its 'Box Office Hit List' and Little Boy Lost was the first of its top ten reads.
May 2007

The Sunday Express
Cassandra Smith followed the advice in How to Run Your Home Without Help for a week and recorded her experience in the Sunday Express 'S' magazine (we have reprinted it in our Spring/Summer Biannually).
March 2007

She magazine
India Knight wrote about Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day in her 'On My Bookshelf' column.
February 2007

Time Out
In its annual Books issue, Time Out featured us in a article about four small London publishers and included a photograph of the shop.
February 2007

Independent
The Independent chose ten of our books for the ‘Hit List’ in its Box Office column. The following week it chose our website as one of ‘The Fifty Best E-Boutiques’ along with, for example, Net-a-Porter, Abe books, Topshop, Graham and Green and the Science Museum Store.

Hilda Bernstein obituaries
The Washington Post ran an obituary written by Glenn Frankel
13 September 2006

The Guardian ran an obituary written by Denis Herbstein
18 September 2006

Wall Street Journal
Merle Rubin reviews the new American edition of Isobel English's Every Eye
July 2006

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is one of the 1001 Books: You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall.
March 2006

EDGE Publications
EDGE Publications, a newsy website from America, has recently reviewed several of our books:
Good Things in England
Hard to to be Hip Over Thirty
How to Run Your Home Without Help
Kitchen Essays
Someone at a Distance
The Homemaker
The Runaway
Victorian Chaise-Longue

International Herald Tribune
The Bigger, the Better? The British Small Publisher Begs to Differ.
24 February 2006

Guardian

Sarah Waters mentions several Persephone books she used in researching her latest book, The Night Watch.
28 January 2006

The Ottawa Citizen
Jamie Portman visits Persephone and reports on his new discovery.
16 January 2006

Little Boy Lost

Full transcript of the discussion about Little Boy Lost on Radio 4's A Good Read.
1 January 2006


Albion Magazine Online
Persephone Books featured first in a series looking at small, unusual English publishing houses.
Winter 2006


Guardian
Geoffrey Alderman mentions Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs, in this article about Jewish "resettlement" in England.
31 December 2005

Twelfth Day of Christmas
Colleen Mondoor’s blog which includes five Persephone Books she particularly enjoyed. 12 December 2005

Times 2
In this article originally featured in Times 2, Carol Midgley asks if modern women meet the exacting standards found in How to Run Your Home Without Help.
November 2005

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