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Fidra Books Newsletter
Joanna Cannan
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Although we are publishing some of Joanna Cannan’s
children’s novels, beginning with the imminent We Met
Our Cousins,
she was predominantly an adult novelist, writing both literary novels and
detective fiction. Joanna is widely credited with creating the pony book genre
with A Pony for Jean; earlier horse stories had focused
on the pony, whilst Jean was the first child heroine. We’re delighted to be
republishing these children’s books and Princes in the
Land, one of
Joanna’s best adult novels has now been reprinted by the marvellous Persephone
Books.
Persephone’s books are beautiful to look at and handle,
quite apart from the contents. They are paperbacks but they have dust wrappers
in the same subtle grey with vibrantly coloured endpapers taken from fabric
designs contemporary to the book. In their own words:
“Persephone prints
mainly neglected fiction and non-fiction by women, for women and about
women.The titles are chosen to appeal to busy women who rarely have time to
spend in ever-larger bookshops and who would like to have access to a list of
books designed to be neither too literary nor too commercial. The books are
guaranteed to be readable, thought-provoking and impossible to forget.”
I love their books and was thrilled to be invited by
Josephine Pullein Thompson (one of the inimitable P-T sisters and the daughter
of Joanna Cannan) to the launch of the Persephone edition of Princes in the Land at
their shop and offices in London.
It was wonderful to meet Josephine and Diana and I am pleased to be able to
report that I managed to be professional and not rave about how much I
treasured their books when I was young – still do actually! There was a
glorious mix of people there – I met writers whose books are now on my ‘to be
read’ pile, discussed hen-keeping and discovered what inspires people to become
armourers.
Princes in the Land is a marvellous novel
about a woman who, having brought up her children and seen them follow paths
diametrically opposed to those she would have chosen, is left considering the
purpose of her life. I enjoyed it enormously. More information can be found on
the Persephone website at www.persephonebooks.co.uk and the book can be ordered
from any bookshop or directly from Persephone on 020 7242 9292.
Princes in the Land byoanna Cannan ISBN
:1903155533
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