News on Endo's Silence, as filmed by Martin Scorsese

It seems from the above that the long-awaited film version of Silence by Martin Scorsese will be with us soon. Martin Scorsese wrote a powerful introduction to this, perhaps Endo's greatest work, when we re-published this in our famous Modern Classics series.

Boy In Darkness Review

Our thanks goes to Liberator for their review of Boy In Darkness above. Incidentally, we will be soon be announcing a major addition to our list of Mervyn Peake titles - watch this space

Peake video

Check out this BBC interview that Sebastian Peake gave on his father Mervyn Peake. We are currently hard at work on a radically revised version of Vast Alchemies, an authorised biography of Mervyn Peake by Peter Owen author G. Peter Winnington. Look for it this fall!

Know your Peake:
The Man and His Art (edited by Winnington)
Boy In Darkness
A Book of Nonsense

Guilty Review

A little behind on this one but here you go anyway – a readysteadybook review of Anna Kavan's Guilty.

Local Shout-Out

The Man Who Planted Trees is currently a recommended title at our local branch of Waterstones (High St Kensington). If you're in the area head over and check out this environmental classic.

Kirkup

Saturday's Guardian ran an obituary on our author James Kirkup.

Review

This past January The Tablet ran a review on Empire of the Sikhs.