‘I fear this year there will be none of Keats’s promise of “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”. Rather, we would be better to bulk buy SAD [Seasonal Affective Disorder] light accessories and only then immerse ourselves in the poet’s concept of “negative capability”, whi

‘And speaking of books, the recently published Marked Cards, by Emmanuel Olympitis, is a very good and fun read about a period when people mingled. Manoli knows and knew everyone and there are more well-known names in the book than in all my columns put together. Get it from

‘Jacobs paints an affectionate picture of postwar London, and particularly of Brixton… credit must go to the publishers for its beautifully noirish cover’

The TLS reviews Pomeranski by Gerald Jacobs. You can get your copy of Pomeranski

September 29, 2020

‘Quartet publishes books outside the mainstream. Our chairman Naim Attallah is the last great independent publisher of his generation. We’re unstoppable and have been been publishing throughout the crisis!’

New Books Magazine has written a piece on independent pu

We’re delighted that Quartet author Jane Haynes has released her e-book THE DAILY JOURNAL OF A PSYCHOTHERAPIST DURING LOCKDOWN: ZOOM ZOOM! IS THERE ANYBODY THERE?  

This is an extraordinary new title, released e

Venetia Welby has published a piece The Art of Lost Sleep for Trauma: Essays on Art and Mental Health  anthology. You can read the piece on her website here and read more about the Dod

‘I began taking notes for the book I had been struggling to write for some time. It was mainly about my adolescence in Paris, growing up with artistic parents: the painter Avigdor Arikha and the poet Anne Atik, who had both emigrated to Paris in the 1950s – my mother from the

‘It’s a thoroughly entertaining read which gives you a glimpse into the kind of high society lifestyle most of us can only imagine having!’

Jera’s Jamboree reviews Marked Cards by Emmanuel Olympitis. You can get your copy of Marked Cards

September 14, 2020

Nicola Madge has written a piece on Sixty Somethings for BookBrunch which you can read here. Get your copy of Sixty Somethings here today.