Nicola Madge writes a piece called Doing Time (At Home or at Work) for Psychology Today which you can read here. You can get your copy of Sixty Somethings here.

Venetia Welby will be reading from Dreamtime at Fictions of Every Kind: Heart and Prose event on Zoom this Wednesday 14th October. You can read about the event here.  We’re delighted to be publishing Dreamtime in 2021.

‘I am quite fascinated by social history so found this a really absorbing read. I think any women who lived through the Sixties would be interested in reading this partly to reminisce but also to compare their experiences with those of the women featured. Younger women like myself may be interested in getting a perspective on what life was like for their mother’s generation.’

Portobello Book Blog reviews Sixty Somethings by Nicola Madge and Paul Hoggart. You can read the full review here and get your copy of the book here today.

Here’s Venetia Welby speaking about insomnia and her 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 Dodo Ink anthology on their website here. We published Mother of Darkness in 2017 and are delighted to be publishing Dreamtime  in 2021.

‘Memories is a charming diversion in trying times. Attallah begins the book quoting Bette Davis’s remark that ‘old age is not for sissies’ and ends with a show of defiance: ‘As the song goes … I’m still here!’ Long may he remain so.’

The Literary Review reviews Memories by Naim Attallah.  You can get your copy of the book here today.

‘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”, which translates roughly as: Don’t let uncertainty paralyse you.’

Quartet author and therapist Jane Haynes has written a piece on how to mentally prepare for a second lockdown for Vogue Digital. You can read the full piece here. We published If I chance to talk a little wild by Jane Haynes. You can get a copy here.

‘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 Quartet.’

Taki writes about Marked Cards by Emmanuel Olympitis for his column in The Spectator. You can read the full column here and get your copy of the book  here.

‘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 here today.

‘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 publishing companies and publishing through the crisis. You can read the full article here.

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 exclusively on kindle and available from Amazon here. 50% of all sales go to the charity CALM – The Campaign against Living Miserably which is leading a movement against suicide.

We published If I Chance to Talk a Little Wild by Jane Haynes in 2018. You can get a copy of the book here.

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 Dodo Ink anthology on their website here.

‘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 US, my father from Israel via Bukovina, a German speaking part of Romania. I described their high-minded friends, my father’s low tolerance of pop culture, my mother who strove to make herself heard – not always successfully.’

Alba Arikha writes a piece on tracing personal relations with Samuel Beckett for The TLS. You can read the full piece here and get your copy of Major/Minor here.