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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. This event is free to attend but please reserve your place 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. Madeira and cheese straws will be served. Book here. SOLD OUT.

And 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.

Finally, in the first week of May, we are having a week of Shared Reading. In the old days we would have called Shared Reading 'prac crit', but basically it's a different way of doing a book group where you don't need to read the book in advance. Instead, the host hands round a copy of a passage from a book then reads some of it aloud; we stop and talk about it. That's it, really.  But reading the literature like this in real-time means that everyone is involved in a shared, live experience. There's no pressure to say anything but you can if you want. All in all it's a particularly welcoming, friendly sort of book group. 

We are pleased to welcome Jamie Barton from The Reader in Liverpool to lead the Shared Reading groups. On Tuesday May 6th from 6.30pm-8pm we shall read 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 but please reserve your place here or, if you prefer, email us at events@persephonebooks.co.uk or telephone us on 01225 425 050.

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. Keep an eye on their website for more details.