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14/11/2024

Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

05/11/2024

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08/10/2024

Special eBook promotion for one week only-Bitter Lemon Press
Kalmann by Joachim Schmidt for GBP 1.99 and US$ 2.99

23/07/2024

Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B.Schmidt-Out Now--Bitter Lemon Press

21/06/2024

Hot Stage by Anita Nair-Out Now--Bitter Lemon Press -

Vivid with detail and taut with suspense, Hot Stage is at once a gripping police procedural and an intense exploration of the squalor and vice that fester in the shadowy lanes of urban sprawl.

30/05/2024

The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor-Out Now--Bitter Lemon Press -

"As well as being superb, pacey thrillers, these are novels of heart and soul, with a hero who refuses to believe life is cheap despite the awful evidence all around him." Shots Magazine

19/05/2024

This novel by Joachim Schmidt has just won the Friedrich Glauzer prize, the most prestigious award for crime fiction in Germany. The return of the popular hero Kalmann in a mad crime investigation leading back to US shenanigans in Iceland at the height of the Cold War. Out from Bitter Lemon in English in July.
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19/05/2024

"In tuffo sulla citta" (1939) by the futurist Tullio Crali in a wonderful exhibition of his work in Gorizia, on the Italian-Slovenian border. Spending a few days in K.u.K territory. In Trieste with its literary giants: Joyce, Sveto, Magris, Morris and Richard Burton the explorer, and in Gorizia, on the edge of Mitteleuropa. Crali lived here much of his early life.

19/05/2024

Colonel Martin Bora is back in Ben Pastor's much lauded WWII crime series. October 1944, in Salo, the last fascist stronghold in Italy: the theft of a Titian painting triggers a series of murders that Bora must solve. Will exposing the perpetrator be enough to save Bora from the firing squad?
Available now online and in bookstores.
"Historical crime fiction at its best." Sunday Times, about the Bora series. "Disturbing mix of detection and reflection." Publishers Weekly

22/04/2024

The Lover of No Fixed Abode by Fruttero & Lucentini--Video Interview Tim Parks, Gregory Dowling and Enrico Palandri -

02/04/2024

The Translator by Harriet Crawley out now with online and other retailers worlwide. In paperback and audiobook format. Times, Sunday Times and Financial Times best new thriller lists. "Unputdownable", Xan Smiley, The Economist.
A passionate love story, centered on a Russian plot to sabotage the undersea communication cables linking the UK and the US.

27/03/2024

The Translator by Harriet Crawley-out now in paperback and audiobook--Bitter Lemon Press -

05/03/2024

Point Zero by Seicho Matsumoto-Out Now--Bitter Lemon Press -

04/03/2024

The most beautiful start to a ski tour in the world?

24/02/2024

Bitter Lemon in Japan for a few days. Northern Honshu. Still anxious to find more local crime fiction to publish.

21/02/2024

Out now from Bitter Lemon Press. Seicho Matsumoto's Point Zero. "Do you aspire to be a connoisseur of the best international crime fiction? If so this book should be on your bedside table. Become acquainted wiith a crime master."--Financial Times. The west coast of Japan in 1958, rugged and wintry, battered by storms. A husband disappears after a four day honeymoon, his wife investigates, against everyone's desires, especially those of the police.
Book of the month at Daunt Books.

13/02/2024

Just published. Buy at online and offline retailers of your choice. "Doyens of the Italian detective story, F&L offer a perfect blend of the comedy of manners and the macabre..." Tim Parks, author of Hotel Milano

08/02/2024

The Lover of No Fixed Abode by Fruttero & Lucentini--Out Now--Bitter Lemon Press -