Hesperus Press

Hesperus Press
Founded2001
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters location28 Mortimer Street, London W1W 7RD
DistributionBookSource (UK)
Trafalgar Square Publishing (US)
Nationwide Book Distributors (New Zealand)
APD Singapore (Singapore)
Jordan Book Center (Middle East)[1]
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.hesperus.press

Hesperus Press is an independent publishing house based in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 2001. The publisher's motto, "Et Remotissima Prope," is a Latin phrase which means "Bringing near what is far".[2] Hesperus Press has published some 300 works[3] by both classic and contemporary authors, including: Dante, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Tolstoy, Woolf, Annie Dillard, and Aldous Huxley. Their series include: Hesperus Classics, Brief Lives, Poetic Lives, ON, Modern Voices, and Hesperus Worldwide.[4] Hesperus is also responsible for the best-seller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson, released in July 2012.

  1. ^ "Distribution". Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  2. ^ W.B. Gooderham. "Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Hesperus Press titles". The Book Depository. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Hesperus Web - Home". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.