Hesperus Press

09/09/2025

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/americans-spend-time-reading-fun-time-screens-study/story?id=124807367

Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.

08/09/2025

01/09/2025

✉️✨ Today is ! ✍️

Did you know the very first love letter is thought to have been written by the Persian queen Atossa around 500 BC?

Celebrate the day with the unforgettable and passionate epistolary 'Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun' : https://hesperus.press/products/the-love-letters-of-a-portuguese-nun

Find out more about the history of letters here: https://www.fleamarketloveletters.com/post/the-history-of-the-letter

01/09/2025

Happy Publication Day!

Available now: https://hesperus.press/products/exclamation-mark

30/08/2025

Mary Shelley was just 18 when she began 'Frankenstein', first published anonymously.

Her Gothic imagination didn’t stop there.
On her birthday, discover 'The Pilgrims':
5 haunting tales of castles, storms, lost loves and forbidden desires.

Link: https://mybook.to/PilgrimShelley

30/08/2025

Born

28/08/2025

ICYMI: Publishers are noting a shift in industry mindset around short stories as readers embrace shorter works, with a number feeling like “something is slowly shifting” and that “there’s a real excitement around stories again” 👇

26/08/2025

Splendid list from The Guardian on banned books.
Shame ours was overlooked (we’ll try not to sulk).

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/23/banned-the-20-books-they-didnt-want-you-to-read

06/08/2025

Me, getting lost in my own thoughts mid-read…

Miniature models by Thomas Doyle

05/08/2025

‘AI slop versions’ of books on retailers like Amazon ‘risk harming consumer confidence’
@_thebookseller The Bookseller magazine
🔗 https://www.thebookseller.com/news/ai-slop-versions-of-books-on-retailers-like-amazon-risk-harming-consumer-confidence

05/08/2025

Word of the Day: oubliette

(noun) A secret dungeon with an opening only at the top. From French 'oublier' : to forget.

📚 In a sentence:
My unread books live in an oubliette of good intentions.

01/08/2025

Can’t make up your mind? There’s a whole art to it.

Jerome K. Jerome’s witty and unexpectedly profound thoughts on the art of decision making are now out in e-book.

📖 Get it here: https://mybook.to/OnMakingUpOnesMind