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05/07/2024

Out now in bformat, Anne Berst’s () moving novel The Postcard is at once a gripping investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and an enthralling portrait of 20th-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. This moving novel tells the story of a family devastated by the Holocaust and yet somehow restored by love and the power of storytelling.

Praised as a “deeply moving book” by Leïla Slimani and a “powerful exploration of family trauma” by Lauren Elkin.

Now available online and in all good bookshops 📚

Translated from French by Tina Kover

06/06/2024

Happy publication day to A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi!

AN EMOTIONAL AND UPLIFTING NOVEL FROM THE FRENCH MARIAN KEYES FOR FANS OF RUTH HOGAN, VERONICA HENRY AND SARAH MORGAN

Emma and Agathe are sisters. They grew up together yet are very different. Agathe, the youngest, messy, and ardent, has always taken up all the space in the bath, in the bedroom, and in Emma’s heart.

After five years of unexplained silence, Emma arranges to meet Agathe in the family’s holiday home. After their beloved grandmother passed away, the place must be emptied, and the memories revisited.

The two sisters have a week to tell each other everything and make up for the time they spent apart. Will they be able to fix the past in the beauty of the summer in the Basque Country, where their childhood is knocking at the door?

“A beautiful story, so elegantly written.” ― Nicola Cornick

28/05/2024

Ten days to go until the publication of the international bestselling novel by Virginie Grimaldi (tr. from French by Hildgarde Serle).

Emma and Agathe are sisters. They grew up together yet are very different. Agathe, the youngest, messy, and ardent, has always taken up all the space in the bath, in the bedroom, and in Emma’s heart.

After five years of unexplained silence, Emma arranges to meet Agathe in the family’s holiday home. After their beloved grandmother passed away, the place must be emptied, and the memories revisited.

The two sisters have a week to tell each other everything and make up for the time they spent apart. Will they be able to fix the past in the beauty of the summer in the Basque Country, where their childhood is knocking at the door?

For fans of Marian Keyes, and readers who loved Fresh Water for Flowers.

If you’re an influencer or book reviewer and would like a copy, please DM us as we have a small number of proofs left!

Out 6th June!

23/05/2024

Join and at on Thursday 6th June to discuss Fifteen Wild Decembers and all things Emily Brontë…

Head over to our stories for the link to purchase your ticket!

08/05/2024

The sun is finally out, and summer reading season is well and truly here.

What are some of your favourite summer reads that you wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to a friend for reading in the park? Tell us in the comments.

📷: .librarian

07/05/2024

Join this Thursday in conversation with Craig Sisterson at to discuss The Axeman’s Carnival!

Head to our stories for the link to book tickets

29/04/2024

Bookseller review •

A tragicomic and truly wild portrayal of humanity and the natural world with a talking magpie as its unreliable narrator, The Axeman’s Carnival is the acclaimed latest novel from New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey. When Marnie, a woman grieving a miscarriage and living with the violent frustrations of her husband the axeman, saves a helpless chick fallen from a tree, the baby bird soon becomes a confidante, a witness and an uncanny mimic of all that it hears. As magpie Tama’s fame grows, his father out in the pines warns him of mankind’s wickedness... and the story moves inexorably towards the bloody climax of its title.

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will be in London for a few days only to celebrate The Axeman’s Carnival! Head over to our stories to find out more about the events and grab your tickets before they all go.

17/04/2024

A week to go until the publication of DOG by Rob Perry!

When 18-year-old Benjamin Glass goes to look at a dead whale that has washed up on the beach, he meets an unfamiliar dog who follows him home to his caravan.

Benjamin isn’t equipped to take care of a dog – he has a chronic fear of germs, and is currently living alone while his grandmother is in hospital. But when a delivery driver recognises the dog as The Mighty Gary, the fastest greyhound in the country, and tells Benjamin about his unsavoury owners, Benjamin is forced to trust the stranger on his doorstep and devise a plan to keep Gary safe.

As Benjamin becomes more attached to the dog, he will have to leave his comfort zone, take some unhygienic risks, cross paths with dangerous and powerful men, and confront his very worst fears to protect his new, unlikely friend.

“DOG is a novel full of deft humour and escalating tenderness – a tale about misfits, human and canine, and the currents of hope and courage that bring them together.” ―Ross Raisin, author of God’s Own Country

OUT 25 APRIL

16/04/2024

Domenico Starnone is the author of thirteen works of fiction. His short novels Ties, Trick, and Trust were translated from Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri. His latest novel to be translated from Italian by Oonagh Stransky is a mesmerising work of auto fiction based on his father. It was longlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.

Find the full collection in your favourite bookshop!

11/04/2024

The Other Profile is a brilliant and darkly funny story of a friendship and its unravelling, and a powerful examination on the disruptive impact of social media on our lives.

The author, Irene Graziosi, had a conversation with Ottessa Moshfegh about writing inspiration, characters, the body, and relationships. Head to our stories to find the link to watch!

09/04/2024

Have you exhausted Netflix, and need inspiration? Here are some of our novels that have been adapted to TV…

My Brilliant Friend: books one, two and three of the Neapolitan Quartet are now available to stream on Sky Atlantic. A stunning depiction of friendship, womanhood, and love against the backdrop of Naples. The last book and season finale will be available later this year.

The End of Love: Tenenbaum was described as “A contemporary voice with the ease of Natalia Ginzburg’s” by Guadalupe Nettel, author of the International Booker shortlisted Still Born. Her manifesto on romantic love has been fictionalised, set in Buenos Aires, and is available on Amazon Prime – the perfect watch for fans of Unorthodox and Everything I Know about Love.

Everything Calls for Salvation: A Netflix original series. When Daniele wakes up involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, he has to learn how to live and love again with the help of his fellow patients as they search for salvation.

The Lying Life of Adults: Elena Ferrante’s last novel was adapted for the screen by Netflix. In this moving and artistically produced series, Giovanna navigates her passage from childhood to adolescence in Naples during the 90s.

Have you watched any of these? Tell us what you thought in the comments! 👇🏼

08/04/2024

“Catherine Chidgey’s latest novel, set on an isolated farm, is a powerful portrayal of humanity and the natural world seen through the eyes of a fledgling chick…

It’s hard not to be gripped by the voice of Tama, a fledgling fallen from a nest — ‘a pink and naked thing, a scar, a scrap, a scrape’ — who tells of his rescue by Marnie, a young woman living on an isolated farm in Central Otago.
She shares the rat-infested house with her volatile husband Rob, who tends 3,000 ewes and is sharpening his axe in readiness for the local carnival, where he means to win his tenth “Golden Axe” trophy, hacking trees to pieces…

Marnie is lonely; her only neighbours are her embittered mother and her sister, who has a smooth-talking husband and a spoiled baby. She’s also timid, and with good reason, because she has recently miscarried. Could Rob’s violent temper and easy fists have had something to do with that? With a neutral gaze, Tama is intrigued by Rob’s nightly obsession with the TV weather forecast and his favourite crime series, ‘about beautiful dead women, found in alleyways, all rucked up and staring’.

It’s hard to convey just how delightful and compelling all this is. Part of the pleasure of The Axeman’s Carnival is the conundrum of Tama himself. When he collects “clues” about Rob to store under the bathtub, is he imitating a tough-talking TV detective or simply being a magpie?”

—FINANCIAL TIMES

The Axeman’s Carnival by , ft. , is out now!

22/03/2024

📚GIVEAWAY📚

We’re celebrating non-fiction this Friday by giving away a bundle of our Europa Compass titles including…

LENIN WALEKD THE MOON by Michel Eltchaninoff, tr. Tina Kover
A fascinating account of how a Soviet cosmic dream is becoming a modern reality.

WHAT IS PROGRESS by Aldo Schiavone, tr. by Ann Goldstein
An interrogation of the progressive function of technology, not as an alien power but as an integral part of what makes us human.

THE ART OF RESILIENCE by Andrea Marcolongo, tr. by Will Schutt
A fascinating portrait of antiquity’s most misunderstood, complex, and surprisingly modern hero, Aeneas.

LIVING WITH OUR DEAD by Delphine Horvilleur, tr. by Lisa Appignanesi
A moving book by one of France’s few female rabbis and the leader of the country’s Liberal Jewish Movement recounting stories of loss, mourning, and consolation.

THE END OF LOVE by Tamara Tenenbaum, tr. by Carolina Parodi
A tool for the creative destruction of romantic love and the principles that sustain it so that, from its ashes, a better love―one that makes men and women freer in their relationships―can rise.

TO BE IN WITH A CHANCE OF WINNING… follow us and like this post. For an extra entry, share this post on your stories.

20/03/2024

Edinburgh! We are delighted to be heading to on the 28th March for an event with Fernanda Eberstadt, author of Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant.

Get your tickets (linked in our stories) to discuss the intersection between activism and art, and the body as a site of resistance.

20/03/2024

EVENT ALERT! Join 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐄𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐭 at Toppings Booksellers in Edinburgh to discuss her latest book 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒. In the words of Olivia Laing, "an invitation into bodily power as well as a history of resistance, deviance and refusal of all kinds.” Unmissable!
https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinburgh/fernanda-eberstadt-stories-of-the-body-militant-2024/

13/03/2024

Books that keep us up at night…

“It’s not often I encounter a book so completely riveting that I stay up on a weeknight wanting to read it, see it through the end.” —.bookends

“I was only going to read one chapter… and then it was 2am. I absolutely devoured this book.”—

“A chilling and suspenseful take that I had to *force* myself to put down… Bravo Catherine Chidgey.”—

“A great thriller that takes you on an emotional ride.” —

“A real page-turner and an absolute treasure.”—

“Oh, this was so good! […] Deft and haunting.”—

“This book is faultless. Don’t miss out on this one.”—

“A rollercoaster of a read!”—

We’re in awe of bookstagram’s reviews of Pet by — the 2am book club!

📷: .bookends

11/03/2024

We are delighted to share the news that The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024!

Translated from Italian by Oonagh Stransky and narrated against the background of a Naples still marked by WWII. First published in Italy over 20 years ago, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature.

Huge congratulations to all authors and translators on the list!

11/03/2024

We are delighted, excited, downright emotional! Domenico Starnone’s 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐚 𝐆𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐨, translated by Oonagh Stransky, is one of the 13 books on the longlist.
Huge, congratulations to author and translator!

01/03/2024

The new paperback edition of Fifteen Wild Decembers by is out now! You can pick up this mesmerising retelling of Emily Brontë’s life from your favourite bookshop…

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023

A best historical fiction book of 2023 (The Sunday Times)

“Unbearably moving.”–Financial Times

“Enthralling.”–Victoria Hislop

“Compelling, atmospheric and raw.”–Ruth Jones, writer, actor and comedian

28/02/2024

Introducing .0 and his debut novel DOG, publishing this April…

"DOG is a novel full of deft humour and escalating tenderness – a tale about misfits, human and canine, and the currents of hope and courage that bring them together."
―Ross Raisin, author of God's Own Country

When 18-year-old Benjamin goes to look at a dead whale that has washed up on the beach, he meets an unfamiliar dog who follows him home to his caravan. Benjamin isn’t equipped to take care of a dog –he has a chronic fear of germs, and is currently living alone while his grandmother is in hospital.

But when a delivery driver recognises the dog as The Mighty Gary, the fastest greyhound in the country, and tells Benjamin about his unsavoury owners, Benjamin is forced to trust the stranger on his doorstep and devise a plan to keep Gary safe.

As Benjamin becomes more attached to the dog, he begins to leave his comfort zone, take some unhygienic risks, cross paths with dangerous and powerful men and confront his very worst fears if he has any hope of protecting what he loves the most.

OUT 25 April

Book reviewers, keep an eye out for proof giveaways!

Special mention to our office pup, Arlo, who chaired our last meeting with Rob 🐾

23/02/2024

Our weekend reading plans include The Postcard by Anne Berest (translated from French by Tina Kover). An unforgettable and gripping novel based on the true story of a family devastated by the holocaust, and restored by the power of storytelling…

“An intimate epic of the ravages of the Holocaust in France.” —Daily Mail

“An absolute heartbreaker.” —The Sunday Times

“Deeply moving” —Leila Slimani

“Powerful” —Lauren Elkin

“Gripping, poignant” —The Guardian

“Compelling” —Vogue

14/02/2024

Happy Valentine’s Day, book lovers!

"A contemporary voice with the ease of Natalia Ginzburg's or Irene Nemirovsky's." ―GUADALUPE NETTEL, author of Still Born

"Nuanced, deeply rich, and a joy to read." ―CHARLOTTE FOX-WEBER, author of What We Want

"A feast for the mind." ―PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY

From Tamara Tenenbaum’s The End of Love…

“In the twenty-first century, our romantic ambitions are intrepid... We want egalitarian and honest bonds, and we are eager to understand what that means. We also want to fall in love, to have s*x, and to be loved; we want stability and adrenaline―the lifeboat and the open sea―, we want everything at the same time. But is it possible to have all of that? Or is this a recipe for frustration? Is this an honest yearning or a mere aspiration, a desire for completeness? Am I an idiot if I pursue it? Am I a cynic if I give up on it?”

What do you think?

13/02/2024

Whether you’re celebrating love or anti-Valentine’s Day tomorrow, we’ve got you covered with these mind-bending novels about finding love or losing it, about traditional romantic relationships or a reframing of it, about passion or obsession.

ACTS OF SERVICE by Lillian Fishman —praised by Raven Leilani, Sheila Heti, and Mary Gaitskill— follows Eve, as she explores her boundless desire and becomes involved in a three-way relationship that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about pleasure.

FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS by Valerie Perrin (tr. from French by Hildegarde Serle) is an international bestselling novel and the story of Violette, the caretaker of a cemetery who’s encounter with a mysterious man reveals a moving story and a quest for truth, and the real meaning of happiness.

Y/N by Esther Yi is a story of love and obsession, and of the lengths we go to pursue our heart’s deepest desires. "A woman falls for a K-pop star at a distance in this thoughtful romance for the online age." –THE GUARDIAN

THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT by Elena Ferrante (tr. from Italian by Ann Goldstein) is a short novel following the spiral of Olga’s desperate, dangerous descent into despair after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. A story of the loss of love and of romantic construction and deconstruction, and an inspiring look at women’s resilience and power.

Let us know in the comments what you will be reading this Valentine’s Day!

12/02/2024

February Mondays are for snuggling on the sofa with a good book during your work breaks… what are you reading this week?

We picked lyrical retelling of Emily Brontë’s life to transport us to the Yorkshire moors.
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07/02/2024

In My Brilliant Friend, we meet Lila and Lenu as they also first meet at school. In book two of the Neapolitan Quartet, the two friends enter adulthood and their paths diverge as Lenu leaves Naples to go to university and Lila marries the son of the most influential yet dangerous family of the neighbourhood.

Elena Ferrante’s characters become all the more real as contradictions within each of the girls begin to shape their multi-faceted personalities. Why did Lila, rebellious and outspoken yet a promising and gifted young mind, gave up on her dreams to become a wife. How does Lenu cope with the pressures and expectations of her family and the people from the neighbourhood? How do both girls reach an understanding of the weight of their decisions and the responsibilities that come with making them?

The Story of a New Name continues a moving story of friendship, love, and the lengths young women in 1950s Naples went to in order to escape their crude realities…

Hands up if you’re yet to pick up the second instalment in Elena Ferrante’s unforgettable series? Warning, after book two it will be impossible to stop…

📷:

05/02/2024

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and what better way to celebrate it than with the creative destruction of romantic love as we know it. So that a better, freer love can flourish…

This bold manifesto explores our contemporary understanding of romantic love and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships today.

Out this Thursday! Though we hear some early copies might already be out in bookshops or .com 👀

22/01/2024

NEWS!🚨📰

A new novel from Catherine Chidgey will be coming to all bookshops this April…

Get to know narrator , and follow him for a chance to win an early proof of The Axeman’s Carnival. Three winners will be picked at random from Tama’s followers by the end of January.

Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie. ‘If it keeps me awake,’ says Marnie’s husband Rob, a farmer, ‘I’ll have to wring its neck.’ But with Tama come new possibilities for the couple’s future. Tama can speak, and his fame is growing. Outside, in the pines, his father warns him of the wickedness wrought by humans. Indoors, Marnie confides in him about her violent marriage. The more Tama sees, the more the animal and the human worlds – and the precarity, darkness and hope within them – bleed into one another. Like a stock truck filled with live cargo, the story moves inexorably towards its dramatic conclusion: the annual Axeman’s Carnival.

Part trickster, part surrogate child, part witness, Tama the magpie is the star of this story. Though what he says aloud to humans is often nonsensical (and hilarious), the tale he tells us weaves a disturbingly human sense.

Catherine Chidgey, the Women’s Prize longlisted and Dublin Literary Award shortlisted author of Remote Sympathy and Pet, returns with a comic, profound, poetic and truly unforgettable tale…

OUT 4 APRIL

19/01/2024

LOVE AT SIX THOUSAND DEGREES by Maki Kashimada (tr. from Japanese by Haydn Trowell) is out now!

"Only Ms. Kashimada can create this kind of world." ―Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police

A housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud. She abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young Russian-Japanese man.

Inspired by Marguerite Duras’s screenplay for “Hiroshima, Mon Amour,” this novel is an undeniable demonstration of Kashimada’s distinctive voice, the polish and precision of her literary style, and her dedication to plumbing the depths of her characters’ psychology.

Thrilling and poised in equal measure, dealing with the travails of history, with gendered identity, and with the tension between private and public selves, Love at Six Thousand Degrees is a literary highwire act by one of the most unique voices in contemporary Japanese fiction.

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Only two weeks to go until the publication of Bite Your Friends: Stories of the body militant. The example of the Greek philosopher Diogenes, who lived “a dog’s life,” sleeping, teaching, having sex in the public square, sets the tone for this extraordinary memoir. Posing questions about what drives certain individuals to risk physical suffering in the name of freedom, Bite Your Friends also asks what we might learn from such examples to become braver, more authentic individuals. This illuminating mix of memoir explores the lives of uncommonly brave men and women who have used their own wounded or stigmatized bodies to challenge society’s entrenched power structures. Running through her narrative of the body militant is Eberstadt’s own story and the vivid story of her mother, a New York socialite of the 60s, whose scarred body first led Eberstadt to seek connections between beauty and the truths taught through the body. Bite Your Friends is at once a subversive autobiography and a mesmerizing history of the body as a site of resistance to power. HEAD TO OUR STORIES TO FIND OUT ABOUT UPCOMING EVENTS WITH FERNANDA EBERSTADT, INCLUDING AN IN-CONVERSATION WITH OLIVIA LAING AT LRB “Ravishing and provocative.” ―Olivia Laing “Stunning and powerful.” ―André Aciman “[Eberstadt’s] prose is exuberantly, obscenely rich.” ―Lauren Elkin “Disarmingly vulnerable and seductively powerful.” ―Andrew Solomon “Bite Your Friends is a knockout.” ―Marisa Silver “No other writer has captured our recent American past… so vividly or with such detail and force.” ―Bret Easton Ellis on The Furies

We couldn't be any prouder to be included in @nerobookawards inaugural shortlist with the wonderful @karenlpowell1 and Fifteen Wild Decembers 💚💙💚 Huge congrats to Karen and all the shortlistees!

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#FacebookLive - Onsite & Online Talk - 29 June - 6pm - Institut français, London Two distinguished Proust experts, Antoine Compagnon (Collège de France) and Christopher Prendergast (University of Cambridge) discuss the eternal youthfulness in Proust's masterful oeuvre À la Recherche du temps perdu with Louise Ferris (University of Oxford). Read more 👉 https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-calendar/whats-on/talks/in-search-of-marcel-proust/

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