Persephone Books

To Bed with Grand Music, Persephone #86 (1946)

Buried In Print2014-02-27T19:38:19-05:00

1946; Persephone Books, 2009 The novel opens with Mrs. Deborah Robertson in bed with her husband; they are saying goodbye to one another before Graham goes overseas. War work: it's not the worst option, as Graham reminds Deborah; he will be relatively safe, as will she, living at

To Bed with Grand Music, Persephone #86 (1946)Buried In Print2014-02-27T19:38:19-05:00

Christine Longford’s Making Conversation Persephone No. 83 (1931)

Buried In Print2014-03-09T12:19:39-04:00

Making Conversation is, for me, one of those Persephones, like Miss Pettigrew and Miss Buncle, that are readily recommendable: it’s the sort of book that will appeal to a wide variety of readers and has little to discourage. And, just as these books do have more serious ideas beneath their

Christine Longford’s Making Conversation Persephone No. 83 (1931)Buried In Print2014-03-09T12:19:39-04:00

Ethel Wilson’s Hetty Dorval (1947)

Buried In Print2014-02-27T15:25:14-05:00

It's still early, the winter morning that I begin reading Hetty Dorval, and the train is leaving the station hesitatingly, in the dark and snowless cold. I have my other book in my lap, my fun read, the sort of read that will be perfectly absorbing even after the bulk

Ethel Wilson’s Hetty Dorval (1947)Buried In Print2014-02-27T15:25:14-05:00