Héloïse Press

04/01/2025

🗣️ WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Hear from acclaimed Bulgarian author ZDRAVKA EVTIMOVA & translator YANA ELLIS as they discuss their collaboration on newly published Héloïse Press novel THE WOLVES OF STARO SELO.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite: https://shorturl.at/wBS3m

24/10/2024

Hanna Nordenhök’s new novel Caesaria, set in 19th-century Sweden, is a sharp, haunting fable about the dangers of male violence

18/07/2024

11/06/2024

In 19th-century Sweden, a baby girl is born from a C-section performed by a renowned obstetrician. This is a rare surgery to survive for a baby, and the doctor keeps her in his mansion as a trophy. He names her Caesaria. Under constant supervision, she will live a dollhouse existence, subject to systems of control and punishment, sharing with us everything she sees and hears. Who are the doctor's mysterious visitors? What is there in the outside world? Where does she come from?

In a Gothic style, Caesaria explores the ways in which early gynaecology experimented with the female body which appeared as a cryptic landscape to be intruded, invaded, controlled.

"I was astounded by Caesaria. It's such a captivating immersive read, like falling down a rabbit hole of shifting impressions, small revelations and the unravelling of time itself. I've never read anything quite like this. It's a hall of mirrors bound up in a book" Jan Carson

"A novel as beautiful as it is unsettling. Hanna Nordenhok's prose combines with singular mastery the density of poetry with the feverish atmosphere of a Gothic tale" Fernanda Melchor

"Nordenhok's locked up mansion is a disciplinary system of supervision and punishment, a claustrophobic spectacle where death and disaster are indisputable components in the condition of being a girl. Caesaria is wonderful! Johanne Lykke Holm

Pre-orders on our website: https://www.heloisepress.com/book/caesaria

Published in North America by Bookhug Press

30/05/2024

We love to see what people are talking about! These are our current readers' favourites!

Have you read them?

30/05/2024

We are preparing a very special Women In Translation Month this year! With each pre-order of Queenless by Mira Marcinów, trans by Maggie Zebracka, we are gifting you a pair of bee-inspired earrings! Brought to you from From Our Cabin.

Pre-order now on our website and get ready to match the cover!

https://www.heloisepress.com/book/queenless

30/05/2024

30/05/2024

Tone Schunnesson talks to A Rabbit's Foot Magazine about success & failure in this incredible interview about Days & Days & Days💄

The Swedish writer Tone Schunnesson talks to Emma Aars about her latest novel, 'Days, Days, Days' about a fictional influencer

30/05/2024

Check out this wonderful review of Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch at nb. magazine!

Reviewed by Madeleine Knowles

21/12/2023

Contributors and friends of the magazine reflect on what they read in 2023.

11/07/2023

❤️❤️❤️Translator Cory Stockwell reads from Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro:

This Thursday 13th July, Cory will be at the Borderless Book Club hosted by Maddie Rogers. You can join here: https://mailchi.mp/cb294737bf24/borderless-book-club-ultramarine

A poetic and mesmerizing novel, Ultramarine pushes us to the very edges of the narrative genre. Narrated in the first person by a female captain, the only wo...

18/06/2023

🌟Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro, trans by Cory Stockwell in The Irish Times today🌟

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2023/06/18/translated-fiction-crooked-plow-whites-can-dance-too-owlish-eunuch-ultramarine/

28/03/2023

📢📢📢 Another fantastic review of Industrial Roots 📢📢📢

This time by Valeria ❤️

"Roots grow deep, spread, and interlace; some surface, and become visible through oral and embodied memory."

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‘Poor Uncle Mike,’ I say, slightly surprised at how easy it is to slip into Gramma Ruby’s ways. So says Lucy, one of several narrators in a collection of stories about the lives of women across t…