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Upcoming Persephone events at our Bath bookshop

In the first week of May, we are having a week of Shared Reading groups, in which we will discuss a single passage from a Persephone book. No need to read the book in advance. We are pleased to welcome Jamie Barton from The Reader in Liverpool to be our Reader Leader for this. On Tuesday May 6th from 6.30pm-8pm we shall discuss a passage from The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; on Wednesday May 7th from 3.30pm-5pm, Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple; and Thursday May 8th from 10.30am-12pm, Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski. All the Shared Reading groups are free to attend but please reserve your place in advance.

And from May 10th to 17th, in our upstairs event space, Persephone Books will be hosting an exhibition of work by the academic and artist Dr Charlie Lee-Potter that is a deeply considered and highly original meditation, through installations and paintings, of women’s lives in the context of home. Open to all during bookshop hours.

On Saturday July 5th, Hayden Thorpe will be stopping by on his bookshop tour to share some songs from Ness, his new collaboration with writer Robert Macfarlane. Tickets available here. 

We also run two Book Groups; click here for further information.

Upcoming Persephone events elsewhere

Persephone Books will be at the Derby Book Festival on Thursday May 29th.

We will also be at Collected Books in Durham on Monday October 27th.

Then, to celebrate the publication of PB no. 153 Hop, Step and Jump by Winifred Watson, we will be in Newcastle at the Lit & Phil on Tuesday October 28th and at the Tyneside Cinema with New Writing North on Wednesday October 29th. More details to come.