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Upcoming Persephone events at our Bath bookshop

Join us on Wednesday April 16th at 6.30pm to celebrate the publication of PB no. 152 Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. Francesca Beauman will be in conversation with Laura Freeman, who wrote the preface. More details here. SOLD OUT.

On Thursday April 17th at 6.30pm, there is going to be a rehearsed reading of the play of Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. This will be the first revival since it was staged at Birmingham Rep in 1935 and then the West End in 1937. It will be directed by George Turvey of Papatango with a professional cast. More details here. SOLD OUT.

And due to popular demand, we are pleased to announce a second performance of the rehearsed reading of the play of Crooked Cross by Sally Carson, this time at the Ustinov Studio at the Theatre Royal Bath, on Thursday April 24th at 6.30pm. Book here. SOLD OUT.

Then on Saturday April 26th, we shall have our first Persephone Day. Come to Bath for the day, meet other Persephone readers, and help us continue to celebrate neglected women writers in as many ways as we know how. Details here.

On the evening of Saturday April 26th, there is going to be a salon music concert performed by Nathaniel Mander on the harpischord. Tickets here.

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 18th, 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

There will be an online event about Crooked Cross on Sunday April 13th organised by the Vancouver bookshop Upstart and Crowe.

Persephone Books will be at the Derby Book Festival on Thursday May 29th and at Collected Books in Durham on Monday October 27th.

Then, to celebrate the publication of PB no. 153 Hop, Skip 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.