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Persephone Books

59, LAMB’S CONDUIT STREET, WC1

THEY say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover and the same, it appears, applies to bookshops. Because Persephone Books is also a publisher, specialising on all fronts in forgotten female writers (mostly from the inter-war period). The business was founded by

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