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Because of the Lockwoods
Regular price £15.00Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple. A 1949 novel about two very different families in a small northern town. Harriet Evans (who wrote the Preface): 'This is twentieth-century British fiction at its very best.'
Every Good Deed and Other Stories
Regular price £15.00Every Good Deed and Other Stories by Dorothy Whipple published by Persephone Books. A heartbreaking novella from 1944 and nine short stories by our bestselling author, each one a gem.
The Closed Door and Other Stories
Regular price £15.00The Closed Door and Other Stories by Dorothy Whipple
Random Commentary
Regular price £15.00A memoir by the bestselling author Dorothy Whipple, compiled by the writer herself in 1965 from her journals (1925-45).
The Other Day
Regular price £15.00256ppISBN 9781910263341 The Other Day was commissioned in 1935. The literary agent Michael Joseph told Dorothy Whipple that ‘he was going to set up as a publisher and wanted me to write a book – an autobiography – for him to publish. I kept on...
Someone at a Distance
Regular price £15.00Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple is a 1953 novel about the destruction of a happy marriage
High Wages (Classic edition)
Regular price £12.00High Wages by Dorothy Whipple published by Persephone Books.
Dorothy Whipple postcards
Regular price £5.00This postcard is of Dorothy Whipple, one of Persephone's most popular authors. The postcards cost £1 each, a minimum order of five is required, and there is a flat fee of £3 for postage within the UK. Please select how many you would like from the drop-down...
Someone at a Distance (audiobook)
Regular price £10.00'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' wrote the Spectator about this 1953 novel by Dorothy Whipple, which was ignored fifty years ago because 'editors are going mad for action and passion' (as she was told by her...
They Were Sisters (audiobook)
Regular price £10.00Read by Sara PoyzerLength: 14 hrs and 20 mins When three sisters marry very different men, the choices they make determine whether they will flourish, be tamed or be repressed. Set in 1930s middle-class England, They Were Sisters is a compelling but harrowing novel by...
Someone at a Distance (Classic edition)
Regular price £12.00Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
The Third Persephone Book of Short Stories
Regular price £15.00The Third Persephone Book of Short Stories
High Wages (audiobook)
Regular price £10.00In Dorothy Whipple's High Wages, a determined young woman makes her way in the world against the looming backdrop of World War I. High Wages is more than a tale of savvy entrepreneurship: Jane’s thoughts, feelings, adventures and disappointments in love and friendship are all laid bare.Jane Carter...
The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories
Regular price £15.00The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories
The Persephone Box Set
Regular price £85.00The 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 with ribbon. It costs £98 including shipping within the UK; to send it overseas, the cost is...
A Very Great Profession
Regular price £15.00A Very Great Profession by Nicola Beauman published by Persephone Books. First published in 1983, this highly readable book is a critical exploration of women's interwar writing and a classic in the field. It covers many of the authors now on the Persephone Books list.
Hop, Step and Jump
Regular price £15.00To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Persephone Books edition of much-loved bestseller 'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day', we are pleased to publish another neglected novel by Winifred Watson, 'Hop, Step and Jump'.
The Expendable Man (Classic edition)
Regular price £12.00The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes published by Persephone Books.
The Deepening Stream
Regular price £15.00PREFACE BY SADIE STEIN616pp ISBN 9781910263310 "The greatest First World War novel you've never heard of" (New Yorker) The Deepening Stream by Dorothy Canfield Fisher is a book that is so close to our heart that we find it quite hard to write about without being...
The Persephone Umbrella
Regular price £35.00“And yet she had done exactly what the books on child training assured mothers would ward off trouble on a stormy day. She had copied off the list of raw materials recommended by the author of ’The Happy Child is the Active Child’: coloured paper,...
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Dorothy Whipple
Dorothy Whipple, author of eight novels and numerous short stories published by Persephone Books Born in 1893, Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) had an intensely happy childhood in Blackburn as part of the large family of a local architect. Her close friend George Owen having been killed in the...
Persephone Book No. 95: Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple
Holding the family blotter up to her mirror, among the patchy imprints of old letters and childish scribblings, Louisa Ashton makes out a recent address: ‘Miss Mabel Dawson, Springfield, Elton.’ That she should have been unaware of her son’s amorous ‘intentions’ neither shocks nor surprises...
