persephone books

The Expendable Man

The Expendable Man is the second thriller published by Persephone Books (our first was the very s...

Long Live Great Bardfield

When Tirzah Garwood was 18 she went to Eastbourne School of Art and here she was taught by Eric R...

To Bed With Grand Music

To Bed with Grand Music, first published in 1946, is about sex in wartime. On the first page (a s...

Vain Shadow

This very funny black comedy about a family gathering for a funeral was written in the early 1950...

Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting, a 1958 novel by Penelope Mortimer, is about the expectations of women, ab...

The Home-Maker

A 1924 novel by one of America's leading writers about a couple who role-swap.

House-Bound

Someone at a Distance

Seit zwanzig Jahren ist Ellen North glücklich verheiratet mit ihrem Mann Avery, sie haben zwei Ki...

Priory

Saunby Priory, a large house somewhere in England has seen better times. This book shows two Marw...

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

The author was a niece of Lytton Strachey and was well-known in Bloomsbury circles; she was the s...

Mariana

Written by the grand-daughter of Charles Dickens, this 1940 novel is the touching and extremely f...

Despised and Rejected