Persephone books make the perfect present for:

The newly-wed – Greenery Street (no.35) or How to Run Your Home Without Help (no.62)

The keen cook – Good Things in England (no.10), Kitchen Essays (no.30), Good Food on the Aga (no.45), They Can’t Ration These (no.54) or Plats du Jour (no.70)

The ghost story enthusiast – The Victorian Chaise-Longue (no.6)

Someone fed up with contemporary fiction – any of the Dorothy Whipples: Someone at a Distance (no.3), They Knew Mr Knight (no.19), The Priory (no.40) or They Were Sisters (no.56) or Marghanita Laski: Little Boy Lost (no.28) or The Village (no. 52)

The World War Two enthusiast – Good Evening, Mrs Craven (no.8), Few Eggs and
No Oranges (no.9) or A House in the Country (no.31), Miss Ranskill Comes Home (no. 46), Doreen (no. 60) and On the Other Side (no.75)

The dog-lover – Flush (no.55)

The keen gardener – Gardener's Nightcap (no.66)

The mother – The Home-Maker (no.7), Saplings (no.16), Family Roundabout (no.24), Hostages to Fortune (no.41) or Princes in the Land (no.63)

The crime novel enthusiast – The Blank Wall (no.42) or The Expendable Man (no.68)

Someone who needs cheering up – Mariana (no.2), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (no.21), The Making of a Marchioness (no.29) or The Fortnight in September (no. 67)

The son or daughter who’s just left home – How to Run Your Home Without Help (no.62)

The traveller – The Far Cry (no.33) or Every Eye (no.18)

The history enthusiast – William - an Englishman (no.1), Julian Grenfell (no.11), A Woman’s Place (no.20), The World that Was Ours (no.50) or Alas, Poor Lady (no.65)

The child who’s bored of Harry Potter – The Children Who Lived in a Barn (no.27), The Runaway (no.37) or The Young Pretenders (no.73)

The poetry enthusiast– It’s Hard to be Hip over Thirty (no.12), Consider the Years (no.22) or Lettice Delmer (no.36)

The husband – Little Boy Lost (no.28) or Operation Heartbreak (no.51)

The ecologically-minded – They Can’t Ration These (no.54)

The Bloomsbury Group devotee – Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (no.38), The Wise Virgins (no.43) or Flush (no.55)

The Londoner – Few Eggs and No Oranges (no.9), Bricks and Mortar (no.49), A London Child of the 1870s (no.61) or Farewell Leicester Square (no. 14)

The intellectual – Fidelity (no.4), Every Eye (no.18) or The Montana Stories (no.25)

The sci-fi enthusiast – The Hopkins Manuscript (no.57)

To slip in a Christmas stocking – The Victorian Chaise-Longue (no.6), Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (no.38) or Hetty Dorval (no.58)

The architect – Bricks and Mortar (no.49)

The romantic – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (no.21), Brook Evans (no.26) or Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary (no.53)

The Persephone Books devotee – why not order the entire set of all 75 Persephone books (£625 collected from the shop or £650 delivered by courier.)

All our books are available gift-wrapped with the message of your choice for £2 extra.
We also have greetings cards for £1.50.

Ordering books from Persephone

You can see a complete list of Persephone Books and order online here. Or you can email us, telephone on 020 7242 9292, send a fax to 020 7242 9272 or write to the following address: Persephone Books Ltd, 59 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1N 3NB All Persephone Books cost £10 each plus £2 postage (see more information on ordering). We can now send a book a month for six or twelve months - more >