5 Star Review for A Scarcity of Love

This is a very well written review of Kavan's A Scarcity of Love on Amazon

Darker Sex Features

Our latest publication, The Darker Sex has been featured on The Bronte Blog (which we highly recommend by the way) and we see that it is also highly placed in Amazon's Victorian Ghost Stories in the Bestsellers In Books category.

Ice Palace Review in the States

Another review (giving 5 stars!) for our new edition of The Ice Palace, this time from an American review site

Ice Palace Review at Life Wordsmith

Thanks to literary blog Life Wordsmith for their review of the classic by Vessas, The Ice Palace which we have just re-issued with a new cover in our Modern Classics series

Recommended: Damian Flanagan and Japanese Books Reviewer

Peter Owen has had a long and fruitful association with Damian Flanagan, the author and critic. He has written introductions to two Soseki works for us, The Gate and Kokoro, as well as Endo's Scandal – and he translated Soskeki's Tower of London. His site above is a recommended stop for those interested in Japanese and world literature. In turn, he has recommended Jonathan Collier, who teaches history at Manchester Grammar school, for his reviews of Japanese masters such as Endo, Mishima and Soseki which are here

Muriel Spark

The Guardian had an interesting review/article re Muriel Spark which mentions Peter Owen. Muriel Spark was the first editor here at Peter Owen Publishers

US review for the Alan Sillitoe biography

Quoted below is edited text of a review for The Life of a Long Distance Writer from American magazine World Literature Today. Richard Bradford's biography of Philip Larkin First Boredom, Then Fear is currently being featured in Waterstones recent promotion.



"Richard Bradford's authorized biography, The Life of a Long-Distance
Writer, draws extensively on Sillitoe's voluminous private papers as
well as extensive interviews to present a remarkable narrative of
Sillitoe's life and to assert a compelling argument for his central
importance in English literature of the last fifty years."

"In contrast to Roger Lewis's splenetic, vituperative biography of
Anthony Burgess (2004), which cataloged its subject's flaws while
ignoring the most "writerly" aspects of Burgess's phenomenally prolific
life, Bradford's biography deftly makes Sillitoe's daily writing routine
central, even in his introduction. His claim that Sillitoe's "fiction .
. . is extraordinarily good: quixotic, magnetic, and unimprovable" and
"that Sillitoe can lay claim to being the most accomplished practitioner
of [the] genre of the last fifty years" may quite intentionally provoke
much-needed debate about, and reappraisal of, Sillitoe's literary
standing. Bradford will get no dissent about that from me, and this
thoughtful, eminently readable biography makes his case formidably."