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Welcome to the Hesperus Press website. Here you will find descriptions of all available books on our backlist as well as details of newly released and yet to be published Hesperus books.

In addition to our well-known collection of neglected classics of English literature, we offer translations of the best world writers from Europe and further afield. We will also be expanding our list to include books relating to literature of the Middle East and to European views of Middle East culture.

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UNCOVER A CLASSIC COMPETITION

Win the chance to see your name in print!

Hesperus Press is asking readers to help us uncover a classic by submitting to us the name of one out-of-print book they would like to see back in print. Entrants must write an introduction to the book in no more than 500 words, explaining why they love their chosen book and why it deserves to be republished.

The winner, chosen by the Hesperus Press editorial team, will see the chosen book published by Hesperus in September 2012, containing their 500 word introduction

Get your entries in now! The deadline is 1st June 2012. Click here for further details.

Featured Books this month

To mark the centenary of the Titanic, Hesperus publishes The Wreck of the Titan...

John Rowland, a disgraced former Royal Navy lieutenant, has taken a job as a lowly deck hand aboard the largest ship ever to have sailed, the Titan. One night in deep fog, the Titan strikes a gigantic iceberg and sinks almost immediately.

Written in 1898, fourteen years before the Titanic's sinking, this novel has been hailed in equal measures as a prophetic work and the result of pure coincidence. Certainly the similarities are striking: two unsinkable ships steam ahead in treacherous conditions, carrying privileged passengers, with an insufficient number of lifeboats. Sam Leith's foreword grapples with the nature of chance, and the surprises it can produce.

If you think you know London, you may well be surprised by the Dickens connections to be found around every corner. And if you don’t know London, let Dickens be your guide with A Guide to Dickens' London...

From Newgate Prison to Covent Garden and from his childhood home in Camden to his place of burial in Westminster Abbey, A Guide To Dickens' London traces the influence of the capital on the life and work of one of Britain's best-loved and well-known authors. Featuring over forty sites - places of worship and of business, streets and bridges - A Guide to Dickens' London not only identifies and illustrates locations from works such as Great Expectations and Little Dorrit but demonstrates how the architecture and landscape of the city influenced Dickens' work throughout his life. Each site is illustrated with substantial quotations from Dickens' own writing about the city he loved.