The Persephone Box Set

'Mademoiselle Guillaumin Reading' 1898 by Armand Guillaumin

The Persephone Box Set is a selection of six Persephone books: curated by us and delivered in a beautiful grey cardboard box filled with tissue paper and tied up with  ribbon. It costs £75 plus a £15 delivery charge; to send it overseas, the cost is more but delivery is included in the price calculated at checkout.

Choose from one of the twelve Box Sets below; or, alternatively, if you buy any six Persephone books individually, they will also be delivered to you in a beautiful grey cardboard box etc etc i.e. you can curate your own Box Set.

An Introduction to Persephone Books
Someone at a Distance, The Fortnight in September, Good Evening, Mrs Craven, The Home-Maker, Little Boy Lost, Sofia Petrovna

Six Cheerful Books
Diary of a Provincial Lady, Mariana, Expiation, The Fortnight in September, Miss Buncle's Book, Greenery Street

Six Feminist Books 

William – an Englishman, A Room of One's Own, National Provincial, To Bed With Grand Music, A Lady and Her Husband, The Call 

Six Wartime Novels
Saplings, Miss Ranskill Comes Home, To Bed with Grand Music, William - An Englishman, Doreen, A House in the Country

Six Books for Men
Little Boy Lost, Operation Heartbreak,The Fortnight in September, The Oppermanns, The Home-Maker, The Expendable Man

Six North American Books
Fidelity, It's Hard to be Hip over Thirty, The Blank Wall, Hetty Dorval, Still Missing, Heat Lightning

Six European Books
Every Eye, Manja, Plats du Jour, Effi Briest, The Exiles Return, Maman, What Are We Called Now?

Six Bloomsbury Books
The Montana Stories, The Wise Virgins, Flush, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, Journal of Katherine Mansfield, A Writer's Diary 

Six Books for the Newlywed
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, Greenery Street, How to Run your Home without Help, Round about a Pound a Week, Dinners for Beginners, Diary of a Provincial Lady

Six Books for the New Mother
Hostages to Fortune, Princes in the Land, The Home-Maker, Patience, The Squire, The Children who lived in a Barn, 

Six Books for the Keen Cook
Good Things in England, Kitchen Essays, Plats du Jour, They Can't Ration These, A New System of Domestic Cookery, The Country Housewife's Book

The Dorothy Whipple Box Set
Someone at a Distance, Greenbanks, They Knew Mr Knight, The Closed Door and Other Stories, High Wages, Random Commentary