Persephone books

[slemslempike]

I missed this in the Biannually, so I figured some of you may well have done so too. And if you're in London you could go to their party on Thursday and make me very jealous. But! We can ALL of us benefit from their 3 for 2 offer online. Except those of us who are not meant to be buying books. Although maybe those of us who are not meant to be buying books could make an exception because they are PERSEPHONE books, and it is really like saving money to get one FREE, even if there are at least five beautiful grey-jacketed in your not-yet-read pile, it doesn't ever hurt to have more Persephone books.

Anyway: tenth birthday celebrations and online offer for Persephone:



This year is our tenth birthday and we are celebrating on Thursday (18th June). We invited you, in the last Biannually, to a party in Lamb's Conduit Street to mark the occasion, but want to remind you again by email: all are welcome and we will be serving champagne and cups of tea all day plus cheese scones for elevenses, salads for lunch, brownies and cup cakes for tea and canapés for the evening.

Also, for this week only there is a special offer of three books for the price of two ie if you buy two books you may have a third free of charge. This applies in the shop on Thursday only but on the website all this week. (The offer also applies to readers abroad, although the third book will be sent surface mail even if the other two are sent airmail.) If you would like to take up this special offer on the internet please order and pay for two books as usual, but write ‘free book please' and the title of the third book you would like in the Additional Info box on the website.

Comments

[birdsflying]

Oh, oh oh. So many choices! *flaps hands*

Sadly, I am in Manchester for a conference from Wednesday night till Saturday so will not be able to make their party. Boo!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oh, boo to missing the party.

[birdsflying]

I finally, after much flapping, settled on Minnie's Room: The Peacetime stories of Molly Panter-Down (I read the wartimes stories recently and adored them), The Country Housewife's Book by Lucy Yates and Mariana by Monica Dickens.

I could have added about 5 more to that order!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It's only worth it if you add six!

I can't remember if I have Mariana - I've been trying to buy it for years. I shall wait until I get home and see.

[birdsflying]

Oh, don't tempt me! I have a list now. I do wish they'd reprint more of Winifred Watson's books. And Jocelyn Playfair.

*stalks postbox* If I'm really lucky, they'll arrive before I head back Up North so I can take them with me on the train.

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

I have ordered:

The Home-Maker
Miss Ranskill Comes Home
Making Conversation

And that concludes my shopping budget for the weekend.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

What's Making Conversation? I don't see it listed. I like both of the others.

What to do! I really am trying to be better about books, but they are so lovely.

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

I don't think you get 3 for 2 on Persephone every day, so this is a one off and it's important to keep supporting them because of what they stand for in independent publishing.

Making Conversation was no.83 I think, probably a relatively new one. It looked very funny.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oh - I had somehow been looking at an older version of the website. Making Conversation looks brilliant and has quite decided me. That shall be one of my three. I think also The Young Pretenders, but I shall have some delightful agonising to do over the third.

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

Have you read Miss Buncle's Book? I thoroughly recommend it, it's so good I bought it for 2 other people and lent it to wonderlanded, who has now bought her own copy and one for her mother.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I haven't - and that looks a definite possibility!

[serriadh.livejournal.com]

Persephone Books is, I think, not that far from where I work so I might pop in on Thursday...

Thanks for letting me know!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

You're welcome - I'm glad someone might get to go along!

[serriadh.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I think the one near me is not the champagne/tea/cakes party one. But I can still buy books I can't afford! (3 for 2 totally makes it ok, though)

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I'm not craving books, but I do like the sound of brownies and cupcakes for tea.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it sound lovely? I am going to buy food after isihac, I shall have to see what they have that I might be able to use to recreate it with.

Oooh, hmm...

[jinty]

Have never bought a book from them (have perhaps only heard of them in passing?) and am tempted - but it's a bit hard to decide when there are so many authors I've never heard of. I suppose I could take the safe route and go for authors I know.... I think this would be my list.
* Molly Hughes' A London Child of the 1870s (I thought that a book about rural Oxfordshire that I have that was written by her, but I'm not convinced now.)
* Noel Streatfeild's Saplings
* Barbara Euphan Todd's rather amusing-sounding Miss Ranskill Comes Home

Unless others have recommendations for someone who loves kidlit, fantasy, and school stories?

Re: Oooh, hmm...

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I think those are pretty good! I find Molly Hughes a little irritating, and her schooldays are retold in A London Girl of the 1880s rather than the 1870s book, but that's my only reservation.

I really love Greenery Street, and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is the one that gets recommended most often. Family Roundabout is good too - though not very like Just William.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

even if there are at least five beautiful grey-jacketed in your not-yet-read pile

That is a vile calumny.

I have SIX still to read and they are on a SHELF, not a pile.

Help.

[joyeuce]

Only six?! I have at least twenty! (Also on a shelf.)

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I hadn't registered the offer at all! Thank you!