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". Hesperus Press has published some 300 works by both classic and contemporary authors, including: Dante, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Tolstoy, Woolf, Annie Dillard, and Aldous Huxley. Their series have included: Hesperus Classics, Hesperus Nova, Hesperus Minor, Brief Lives, Poetic Lives, ON, Modern Voices, and Hesperus Worldwide.Hesperus Classics, hesperuspress.com. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
Hesperus was also responsible for publishing the UK edition of the best-seller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson, released in July 2012. However, in 2015 the High Court ordered Hesperus to stop selling its edition of the book after it failed to pay royalties to the author for 3 years.
According to its 2023 accounts, Hesperus Press currently has no employees.
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Brief Lives (Hesperus Press) at publishinghistory.com "Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished?" in The Guardian ("Hesperus Press are asking the public to nominate a novel for republication") "Small is beautful" - mention of Hesperus Press and its founders in Evening Standard "Swedish bestseller has the last laugh" - mention of Hesperus Press in The Guardian "An accidentally adventurous life" - mention of Hesperus Press in the Jordan Times "Charles Dickens - the 'abuser' of women?" - mention of Hesperus Press in The Daily Telegraph (London) "Hans Keilson, Novelist of Life in Nazi-Run Europe, Dies at 101" - mention of Hesperus Press in The New York Times