Anita Desai in the Guardian

As crazy as it may sound, we sometimes find that we forget how many international writers we have first published who have gone on to gain wider recognition. Last weekend's Guardian saw a quiet reference to us from Anita Desai whom we first published in 1963.

Exile by Padraic O'Conaire - review from DovegreyReader

Our thanks to Dovegreyreader for their
review of the classic Padraic O'Conaire novel Exile.

'A magnificent and terribly readable collection'

These are the words of Patricia Duncker, of Manchester University Press who joined our editor on today's Radio 4 Woman's Hour programme to discuss The Darker Sex. Huge thanks to all of them - the book has shot up in the last few hours to No 1 in Amazon's Victorian Ghost Stories category in the last couple of hours!

Mike Ashley, Darker Sex editor on Radio 4

Mike Ashley, the editor of our collection of supernatural stories by Victorian women, The Darker Sex will be appearing in a discussion on Woman's Hour on Radio 4 tomorrow, Friday 18th September, about the genius of women writers with Gothic tales. Woman's Hour is on at 10.00-10.45 or you can pick up the programme on the Listen Again facility

Recommended Blog

We are happy to recommend The Compulsive Reader – they call it a haven for book lovers and we think you will find it so too.

Circus Mania

In the not-too-distant future, we will be publishing a new book on the Circus, called Circus Mania, by Douglas McPherson. We will be setting up a web page for this shortly but the author has set up a blog for all those with an interest in this durably popular entertainment art.