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Macmillan Collector’s Library and Persephone Books have partnered on a new audio publishing programme.
The collaboration “builds on the strengths of both publishing houses”, Macmillan said. “Readers and listeners will be presented with Persephone’s thoughtfully curated selection of previously neglected literary classics produced by Pan Macmillan’s award-winning audio team and now read by a host of some of our greatest performing talent.”
The first two publications are scheduled for 18th April 2024: William: An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton, Persephone’s first ever publication, which will also be released as a Persephone Classic, along with They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple, one of Persephone’s bestselling authors.
Later in the year, on the 17th October 2024, the programme is set to continue with a second Dorothy Whipple title, High Wages and Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski.
Furthermore, as part of the creative partnership, Pan Macmillan Audio will take over the sales and distribution of Persephone Books’ existing backlist audio titles featuring authors such as Frances Hodgson Burnett and Diana Athill.
Harriet Sanders, publisher at Macmillan Collector’s Library, said: “I’ve long admired Persephone Books not least because our publishing values are very much aligned. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to work closely with them.”
Francesca Beauman, publisher and bookseller at Persephone Books, said “At Persephone Books we are always looking for new ways to help people discover all our wonderful authors, which is why we are so pleased to be collaborating with Pan Macmillan to increase our audiobook provision and make the likes of Cicely Hamilton, Dorothy Whipple and Marghanita Laski available to as wide an audience as possible."
Persephone Books was founded in 1999 and is now based in Bath, it reprints neglected fiction and non-fiction, mostly by women writers and mostly dating from the mid-20th century.