05/01/2026
The two newest titles have arrived from the UK!
“The Prisoner” is the sequel to bestseller “Crooked Cross.”
Persephone say, “The novel opens in August 1933, just a few weeks after Crooked Cross ended. Set mostly in Munich, it describes the lives of the Kluger family as Na**sm strengthens its grip on Germany: we watch as Erich’s commitment to the Party grows, while Helmy’s struggles to accept its strictures threatens to be the family’s undoing. This is a most unusual and unforgettable novel: an English woman, and therefore an outsider, writing about two perfectly ordinary German men who become, or are meant to become, implacable N***s – as early as 1933.”
“The Blank Wall” is a noir type thriller. Persephone say this about it: “First published in 1947, The Blank Wall is a rare example of a noir thriller told from a woman’s perspective, in which the dangers of war are mirrored by the quiet, yet equally treacherous, perils of home life.
Lucia Holley, a mother of two living just outside New York with a husband serving in the Navy during World War Two, finds herself unexpectedly entangled in a web of criminal activity when she sets out to protect her 17-year-old daughter from blackmail.”
How fantastic!
