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Persephone Books
Holborn
Since opening in 1998, Persephone – a bookseller and publisher –
has dedicated its shelves to 20th-century literature penned
(mostly) by women. Expect to find historical memoirs, cookbooks and
feminist fiction among works that have been largely forgotten or
under-appreciated by mainstream bookshops. It might be wrong to
judge a book by its cover, but Persephone’s signature grey jackets
and artful endpapers have us smitten. Like this? Visit Soho’s
pink-floored The Second Shelf next.