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January 2012

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

'No Surrender's place in history is assured' wrote the Independent on Sunday's Invisible Ink column.

December 2011

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'Anything from Persephone Books' was the gift choice of the Wall Street Journal:

December 2011

Sun, 4 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'Persephone Books has consistently made such elegant use of endpapers' wrote the Guardian

November 2011

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

When House-Bound by Winifred Peck was discussed on Radio 4 last month the demand was such that it immediately went out of print

November 2011

Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'A rare example of a suffragette novel...banner-waving stuff' wrote the Guardian about No Surrender

October 2011

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'Whipple is a fine writer. She is economical, shrewd, sharp and unsentimental'

August 2011

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'My son sent me a birthday present of a book a month from Persephone Books.'

July 2011

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'This funny, intelligent, deceptively low-key collection is long overdue' wrote the Guardian

June 2011

Mon, 6 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

May 2011

Sun, 8 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

April 2011

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'Emma Fielding read an exquisite story ("Dimanche") on a R3 slot that often produces little gems, Twenty Minutes':

March 2011

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'Walking into the Persephone book shop in London feels like a breath of fresh air'

January 2011

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'The glamorous Persephone books in silver' are 'a fine sight'

December 2010

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

'Lovers of elegant design and women's writing are unlikely to tire of The Persephone 90'

November 2010

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

'They are everything a Kindle isn't' Shop at The Savoy

October 2010

Tue, 5 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Time Out London 2011

September 2010

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Time Out's London's Best Shops 2010 wrote:

August 2010

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Good Things in England and Plats du Jour are in Observer Food Magazine's 50 Best Cookbooks Ever...

August 2010

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

'Persephone Books still delights a faithful readership...'

July 2010

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

'A more general British taste ... extends from Cath Kidston to Persephone Books...'

June 2010

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

'Think of your ideal bookshop, one that has books that you thought you couldn't get any more...'

May 2010

Sat, 22 May 2010 01:10:00 GMT

'If we needed to provide a timely reason for writing about Persephone Books,' wrote Slow Guides,

April 2010

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

We were chosen by the Sunday Telegraph as one of the 'secret addresses from stylish people'.

February 2010

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

' In Vanity Fair (America) Christa D'Souza wrote:

December 2009

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Peter Terzian wrote an article in Newsday

November 2009

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

India Knight wrote about us in the Daily Mail.

October 2009

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Erica Wagner mentioned us in her column in The Times.

September 2009

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Lady magazine said about us:

August 2009

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

There was a long feature about us in the Mail on Sunday's You Magazine.

June 2009

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I would happily give this lovely thing a smacking great kiss. A Kindle you can only switch on or off,' wrote Rupert Christiansen in the Daily Telegraph

May 2009

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In the Observer Rachel Cooke called us 'the most extraordinary, most lovely of publishers.'

April 2009

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day was in the Top 20 Fiction Titles for 2008

March 2009

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Time Out called us a 'Much-loved bookseller with a strong USP'

February 2009

Sun, 1 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In the Observer Sue Arnold reviewed the audiobook of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

January 2009

Thu, 1 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Jessa Crispin on NPR called Little Boy Lost 'a gem

December 2008

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In The Sunday Times Karen Robinson chose Miss Pettigrew read by Frances McDormand as one of her eight best audiobooks of the year.

November 2008

Sat, 1 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Kerry Friel of Newsday chose Little Boy Lost as one of her nine best books of 2008.

October 2008

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In 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.

September 2008

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The 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'.

Wall Street Journal - August 2008

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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 2008

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

We 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).

July 2008

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Miss Pettigrew is one of the Sunday Times 100 best holiday reads.

The Hill - June 2008

Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Persephone Books has recently arrived in Kensington Church Street. Pendle Harte, editor of The Hill meets its founder.

The Daily Telegraph - May 2008

Thu, 1 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Thanks 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?

Time Out - May 2008

Thu, 1 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

'This tiny publishing house-cum-lovely bookshop has breathed new life into 78 neglected interwar fiction titles'

The Financial Times - May 2008

Thu, 1 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

'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.'

The Observer - April 2008

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

How a 1938 novel - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - led to a surprise box- office hit.

Publishers Weekly - March 2008

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

'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.'

Newsday -March 2008

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is perhaps the happiest, most ebullient piece of fiction every written for adults.' Newsday.com

Period Living - June 2007

Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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

Independent on Sunday - May 2007

Tue, 1 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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.

The Sunday Express - March 2007

Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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).

Independent - February 2007

Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Time Out - February 2007

Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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

She magazine - February 2007

Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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

Albion Magazine Online - Winter 2006

Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Persephone Books featured first in a series looking at small, unusual English publishing houses.

The Guardian - 18 September 2006

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Guardian ran an obituary written by Denis Herbstein

Hilda Bernstein obituaries - 13 September 2006

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Washington Post ran an obituary written by Glenn Frankel

Wall Street Journal - July 2006

Sat, 1 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Merle Rubin reviews the new American edition of Isobel English's Every Eye

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - March 2006

Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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

International Herald Tribune - 24 February 2006

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Bigger, the Better? The British Small Publisher Begs to Differ.

EDGE Publications - February 2006

Wed, 1 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

EDGE Publications, a newsy website from America, has recently reviewed several of our books:

Guardian - 28 January 2006

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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

The Ottawa Citizen - 16 January 2006

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Jamie Portman visits Persephone and reports on his new discovery.

Little Boy Lost - 1 January 2006

Sun, 1 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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

Guardian - 31 December 2005

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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

Twelfth Day of Christmas - 12 December 2005

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Colleen Mondoor's blog which includes five Persephone Books she particularly enjoyed.

Times 2 - November 2005

Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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.