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03/12/2023

"What is your chief character trait? – Laziness.
How do you amuse yourself – By making myself scarce.
What is your dream of happiness? – Never dream of it; want
reality.
What would you like? – Should like not to be.
In which country would you like to live? – Do not know.
Perhaps Lapland.
What do you most dislike? – False pretences."

Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzenowski on this day in Ukraine 🇺🇦 in 1857.

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29/11/2023

29/11/2023

"There is a strange idea abroad that the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books" C. S. Lewis, born on this day in 1898

22/11/2023

"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life?"

Adam Bede author Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was born on this day in 1819

21/11/2023

“I shall relate quite simply how things happened and without adding anything of my own, which is no small feat for a historian “ Jean-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, was born on this day

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16/11/2023

"ROMEO
O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.

FRIAR LAWRENCE
I’ll give thee armor to keep off that word,
Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy,
To comfort thee, though thou art banishèd.

ROMEO
Yet “banishèd”? Hang up philosophy.
Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom,
It helps not, it prevails not. Talk no more.

FRIAR LAWRENCE
O, then I see that madmen have no ears."

Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, III,3,56

Happy World Philosophy Day

14/11/2023

Hesperus Press has been a celebrated publisher of classic books for more than a decade, famous for handpicking quality literature from the UK and around the world.

01/11/2023

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Hesperus Press has been a celebrated publisher of classic books for more than a decade, famous for handpicking quality literature from the UK and around the world.

01/11/2023

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/w-h-smith-launches-new-buy-back-service-for-second-hand-books

W H Smith is launching a new books service with buy-back company Zeercle, offering customers the opportunity to swap their second-hand books for money off their next purchase with a W H Smith e-gift card.

31/10/2023

"This is your birth-day Tom, and I rejoice
That thus it passes smoothly, quietly.
Many such eves of gently whisp’ring noise
May we together pass, and calmly try
What are this world’s true joys, – ere the great voice
From its fair face, shall bid our spirits fly."

"Written to his brother Tom on his Birthday", 1816, by John Keats, who was born on this day in 1795

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28/10/2023

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.” Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh was born on this day in 1903.

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22/10/2023

"Literature is the privileged medium to render palpable the deep complexity and ambiguity of our predicament"

Slavoj Zizek at the Frankfurt Bookfair 2023

21/10/2023

"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."

Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, born on this day

Explore this captivating biography of Coleridge from our Poetic Lives series:

by Daniel Hahn Poet, philosopher and critic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now best remembered for the extraordinary ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Kubla Khan’. With his friend William Wordsworth he founded the Romantic Movement: theirs was one of the most productive and creative partne...

11/10/2023

If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil’d,
Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child!
O, that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done.
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your frame;
Whether we are mended, or whe’r better they,
Or whether revolution be the same.
O, sure I am, the wits of former days
To subjects worse have given admiring praise.

Sonet 59, William Shakespeare

10/10/2023

"My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow"

Edward the Second, Christopher Marlowe

09/10/2023

Autumn Collection

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09/10/2023

"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying inside."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

05/10/2023

Audiobook is now available on all platforms by Friedo Lampe Translated by Simon Beattie This poignant novel, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe’s words, ‘born into a regime where it could not breathe’; he hoped that one day it might rise again. It has no one main character,...

04/10/2023

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28/09/2023

https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/09/21/publishing-used-to-be-packed-with-parties-and-punch

A new biography of George Weidenfeld looks at the heyday of book publishing

18/09/2023

18/09/2023

"Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness." F. Scott Fitzgerald

18/09/2023

An early 20th-century humorist promoting his own book came up with ‘Miss Belinda Blurb’ as the personification of publishers’ overly effusive praise

12/09/2023

This library has every book ever published.

The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries in the UK — and the only one that doesn't pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That's a ...

11/09/2023

Are Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality books the future?

A studio that adapted Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: The Seven Ravens into an augmented reality experience for the Magic Leap...

10/09/2023

Humans have always been fascinated by the moon and before we could really get there we travelled to it in our stories.

17/08/2023

14/08/2023

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

Thornton Wilder, The Woman of Andros

11/08/2023

Harvard Book Store.

08/08/2023

Celebrate Korea's National Liberation Day, Gwangbokjeol ( #광복절) with this wonderful collection of folk tales from both North and South Korea

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by David Carter and Chan Young Kim Illustrated by John Shelley This book is a collection of folk tales from both North and South Korea. They have been selected by the authors, with contemporary English speakers in mind, from thousands of such tales. The authors have retold and translated the tales s...

07/08/2023

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03/08/2023

"It is not observed that librarians are wiser than other men" Ralph Waldo Emerson

20/07/2023

Our Summer collection is here:
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Hesperus Press has been a celebrated publisher of classic books for more than a decade, famous for handpicking quality literature from the UK and around the world.

17/07/2023

"Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache."
George Orwell

19/06/2023

Show your local independent bookshop some love this Independent Bookshop Week!

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19/06/2023

19/06/2023

Happy Publication Day! 📖

The “Memories: an Oasis in Time” is out today on e-book and paperback: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Memories-Kamel-S-Abu-Jaber/dp/1843919893

Dr. Kamel Abu Jaber penned the last words to his “Memories” before passing 3 years ago.

From the origin of the Abu Jaber clan in Jordan in the 1800s, to his early formative years in a tiny village of Yadudeh, to emigrating to the United States where he worked many odd jobs (janitor, house painter, waiter), to enrolling in Syracuse University where he received his Ph.D. in Political Science, then back home to an extensive academic and distinguished political career.

This book will charm readers with his clever wit and humorous anecdotes about his life and beloved country.

07/05/2023

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