Two Peter Owen titles on Three Percent

We were pleased to see that Three Percent, the US web literary journal, mentioned two of our current titles this month. Apart from some criticism of the titles' US prices, both Monzo's The Enormity of the Tragedy and Druzhnikov's Pushkin's Second Wife and Other Micronovels appear to have been well received.

Coverage in the Standard & The Guardian

The Embassy/Guinness party also drew these two witty asides in the press one from
The Guardian and the other from the
Evening Standard

Irish Embassy Launch Party

We were delighted to be able to have a launch party for Arthur's Round at the Irish Embassy in Grosvenor Place, London. A much more glamorous event than we are used to hosting if the truth be told, with a contingent of fashion correspondents and even models (!) rubbing shoulders with the usual publishing types - Patrick is pictured with his daughter Jasmine and Jade Parfitt. Witty speeches from the Ambassador and Patrick Guinness himself - plus a fair share of the black stuff - rounded off a great evening very nicely...

Coverage Building Up For Arthur's Round

It has been many years in preparation and the biography of Arthur Guinness, Arthur's Round by his direct descendent, Patrick, is certainly making a stir. We had a launch for the Irish publication in Dublin in November (see the author, with his daughter, Jasmine, at the fabulous Guinness Storehouse in the pic above) and today's Irish Independent has a splendid review here. There should be some more coverage coming soon too...

New Review for In Love

Another review for In Love! Last week The Times put out a review for our newly published book, Alfred Hayes's In Love. In other news, Boy In Darkness will be previewed shortly in two literary papers. On 11th December, The Lady will be interviewing Sebastian Peake, son of Mervyn, about the new collection while the Literary Review will extract one of the stories and print some of the illustrations in their December/January issue.

Guardian Review for In Love

Saturday's Guardian carried a review for Alfred Hayes's In Love which has just been published. There wasn't room to mention that this new paperback edition carries with it a foreword by Frederic Raphael, who has the sequel to his seventies classic The Glittering Prizes, Fame and Fortune dramatized on Radio 4. Our thanks to him for one of the best forewords so far in our Modern Classics series

Literature in Translation event at Waterstone's Hampstead 24.10.07

Visitors to our website with a special interest in foreign translation may like to know that Waterstone's in Hampstead are arranging a special event on 24th October which we are also pleased to be attending. Check in with Waterstones for more details and see you there. Our most recent translated fiction titl, which you'll hopefully see there too (!) is Enormity of the Tragedy and check out the new books or modern classics pagefor more