Vere Hodgson's Few Eggs and No Oranges: 1940-45 Persephone No. 9 (1999) Ironically, it was not a book -- Persephone or otherwise -- that settled my debate about which Persephones to read for Persephone week. It was the combination of my having responded so strongly to Pat Barker's Regeneration series
Nadifa Mohamed's Black Mamba Boy Harper Collins, 2009 "...and it's a story that I think hasn't been told before..." That's how Nadifa Mohamed describes her first novel, Black Mamba Boy in this video. Maybe that's a tall order for a novel in 2010. And, then again, maybe not. Consider this.
I'm so incredibly excited about Persephone Reading Week that I think I'll need to take the week off work to celebrate it properly. That was a temptation when I first heard about the event, and I started thinking "themes" and then spotted a collection of films about wartime England at
Arguably the best novel of the trilogy, for having been nominated for Orange Prize in 1996 and having won the Booker that year, there was no question in my mind as to whether I would read on following Regeneration and The Eye in the Door. Despite my habit of resisting war
Penguin, 1993 So you know, from my thoughts on Regeneration, how much of a talking-to I had to give myself to keep reading Pat Barker's brilliant war novels. But as much as I might be a cowardly reader, I'm also a stubborn reader, so I made sure that
