Persephone Books. This is another small and wonderful publishing house, based in London. I came to know of them when I heard of Etty Hillesum's An Interrupted Life, which Persephone have republished. I downloaded the following photograph of Etty Hillesum from the web; it also appears in An Interrupted Life:

Panem. One of my favourite place in Dublin (or indeed anywhere) to have a coffee, a beautiful biscuit, a lovely cake, to read or have a chat. It is owned by Ann Murphy and her Sicilian husband Raffaele Cavallo, and they produce Italian breads (focaccia ... ), cornetti, brioches, cakes, biscuits, chocolates, beautiful hot chocolate drinks, real coffee,... . The staff are fantastic, are always ready to have a chat or to leave you alone if that's what you want. It's simply heaven (though it can be a bit crowded around lunchtime). Oh! I almost forgot to tell you where it is (perhaps an unconcious urge to keep it a secret?)... It's at 21 Lower Ormond Quay, just where the new bridge crosses the river Liffey.

Once, browsing rare book material on the web I came upon Wisley Rare Books, and this stunning illustration from Le Paradis Musulman, illustrated by F.-L. Schmied, is on their home page: