country of origin united kingdom headquarters location 28 mortimer street london w1w 7rd publication types books number of employees 5 2 official website www.hesperuspress.com 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 . it has quietly devoted itself to shining a light on neglected titles and authors . 3 hesperus press has published some 300 works 4 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 . 5 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 . 6 book titles edit titles from hesperus press include zastrozzi a romance by percy bysshe shelley foreword by germaine greer the double a petersburg poem by fyodor dostoevsky foreword by jeremy dyson hyde park gate news by virginia woolf foreword by hermione lee on travel by charles dickens on war by george bernard shaw foreword by philip pullman amos barton by george eliot foreword by matthew sweet carlyle s house and other sketches by virginia woolf foreword by doris lessing a round of stories by the christmas fire by charles dickens foreword by d. j. taylor the popular girl by f. scott fitzgerald foreword by helen dunmore the dream by mile zola translated by andrew brown sanditon by jane austen foreword by a. c. grayling lesley castle by jane austen foreword by zoe heller references edit http www.companiesintheuk.co.uk ltd hesperus press http www.theguardian.com books 2012 mar 04 swedish bestseller has last laugh http www.theguardian.com books booksblog 2012 may 24 out of print books republished hesperus press titles . the book depository . http www.hesperuspress.com web http www.theguardian.com books 2012 mar 04 swedish bestseller has last laugh external links edit official website mentioned in the new york times mentioned in the guardian book blog mentioned in london evening standard the hundred year old man mentioned in the guardian the hundred year old man mentioned in the jordan times dickens women mentioned in the telegraph this publishing related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hesperus press & oldid 677539060 categories book publishing companies of the united kingdompublishing stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 august 2015 at 23 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view