Keith Oatley's Therefore Choose Gooselane Editions, 2010 Therefore Choose is a tremendously accessible, memorable and relevant novel from Gooselane. If you've tried one of Keith Oatley's earlier novels (The Case of Emily V. published in 1993, A Natural History, published in 1998), you might think that a novel from him
Cicely Hamilton's William: An Englishman Persephone No. 1 (1919) Persephone Books, 1999 When I finish my current Persephone read, Monica Dickens' Mariana, I'll have read one-fifth of their books, but it was the announcement of their Forum's launch that took me to the first of their publications. My orderly nature
Duff Cooper's Operation Heartbreak Persephone No. 51 (1950) When it comes to articulating how I choose the Persephones that I read, I tend to think that it's simultaneously an exhaustive and amorphous plan: I want to read all-things-Persephone, s-o-m-e-d-a-y. But, in fact, I do have an unspoken ranking system and
Mollie Panter-Downes' Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories Persephone No. 8 (1999) So you can choose to follow along with my bookish digression, or, you can do a quick online search on this collection and find many thorough reviews of and responses to it because -- both in and
Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg's On the Other Side: Letters to My Children: From Germany 1940-1946 Persephone No. 75 (2007) Trans. from the German and Edited by Ruth Evans Peter Owen, 1979 I added this one to my reading list for the same reason that Persephone added it to its publication list: to
