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Little Boy Lost
I purchased Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski in February of this year (I tend to purchase the Classics from online booksellers and the dove-greys from Persephone themselves, which is why I can be...
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Persephone Biannually
I am relieved that the Royal Mail strikes in the UK did not prevent me from receiving the Persephone 2009 Autumn/Winter Biannually as it allowed me to spend a pleasant hour yesterday perusing it...
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Recent Acquisitions
Here they are, the first books of 2010. I’ve even read one already and began another! The Spare Room by Helen Garner: Canongate declared this “the decade’s best unread book”, I popped it on my...
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On the Bedside Table
Do you have several books on the go at once? I’m usually what you would consider a monogamous reader: a girl who is loyal to one book at a time; occasionally though I read a few books at once,...
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The Victorian Chaise-longue Quiz
Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books very generously gave Verity and I new copies of books for give-aways during this Persephone Reading Week. Lydia from the Lamb’s Conduit Street shop and myself...
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The Persephone Perplex
On Monday I presented you with the most perplexing of Persephone problems … what book should I most definitely read this week? To help me with this I dangled a dazzling carrot in front of you: the...
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To Bed With Grand Music
To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski is the fourth of her novels that Persephone Books have published but was the first of those four to be published, in 1946 under the pseudonym “Sarah...
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Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon
Endpapers taken from 1970s knit fabric in private collection When I read Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski a year ago, I felt as if my heart had been ripped out in the heightened emotion of the...
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Claire’s Corner
With sporadic blogging over the last few months it has been a while since I posted a Claire’s Corner; it has also been a ridiculously long time since I have posted a review (a subjective and personal...
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Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon
Endpapers taken from 1970s knit fabric in private collection When I read Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski a year ago, I felt as if my heart had been ripped out in the heightened emotion of the...
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