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Persephone to open second bookshop

17.03.08 Benedicte Page

Persephone Books, the publisher of reprinted 20th Century classics written mainly by women, is opening a second shop this week in west London and intends to stock other publishers' titles for the first time. Persephone currently sells its own titles, together with clothes and fabrics, from a shop adjoining its office premises on Lambs Conduit Street WC1.

The Persephone Bookshop will be located at 109 Kensington Church Street W8 and will be managed by Sophie deBrandt, who previously worked at Elgin Books. It will stock Persephone's own titles at the front of shop and a selection of other publishers' titles towards the back, including history, politics, cookery and children's books. There will also be individual shelves devoted to other independent publishers such as Eland, Granta and the New York Review of Books.

Persephone m.d. Nicola Beauman said: "Sophie and I have long thought that while a lot of people do come to Bloomsbury to buy Persephone books, there are all those people in Kensington and west London who don't get there. The Persephone Bookshop will be a quirky independent and we hope people will find something there they won't find elsewhere."

The new bookshop can be contacted on 0207 221 2201.

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