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Out Today! Uwe Neumahr sheds an original light on the Nuremberg Trials, through the eyes and lives of the journalists dispatched to report what would become history. Among them are Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner.
Translated by Jefferson Chase
A Formidable Giveaway! WIN an original drawing by the author of The Formidable Miss Cassidy (and comic-book creator!), Meihan Boey, AND a hardback copy of the book. How to enter: ⬇️
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🌙 Published today! The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey
Miss Cassidy is no ordinary governess.
She can tutor the most wayward child, tell stories in multiple languages and fix any household crisis. But she also deals with problems of a far more dark and dangerous kind.
Arriving in 1890s Singapore, this formidable, flame-haired Scotswoman soon finds herself (among other things) ridding a house of a bloodthirsty demon and raising a spirit from the dead. But when she is hired by the wealthy Chinese widower Mr Kay, whose family is suffering from a terrible curse, she must battle forces far more ancient and powerful than any she has encountered – not to mention the unexpected impulses of her own heart…
An irresistible brew of magic, romance and mystery The Formidable Miss Cassidy invites you to embark on a thrilling supernatural adventure alongside an unforgettable heroine.
Getting ready for ? New in paperback this week: blending personal, historical and fictional writing, Gabriela Wiener traces her inheritance from both indigenous and violent colonial ancestors - translated by Julia Sanches.
Undiscovered was longlisted for the International 2024
🗝️The Darkness has arrived! The sequel to Tricia Levenseller’s deliciously dark, gripping romantasy tale, The Shadows Between Us, is here: The Darkness Within Us is out now 🌙
Chrysantha Stathos has won - or so she thought. Now, a pretender to her throne has shown up to steal her inheritance. Chrysantha wants Eryx Demos dead, and in the end, a Stathos girl always gets what she wants...
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☢️GIVEAWAY☢️ The MANIAC | Signed | Pins | Bookmarks (entry details ⏬)
We have THREE of these exclusive collector packages, celebrating the paperback publication of Benjamín Labatut’s The MANIAC. Each includes an incredibly rare signed copy of the book, a limited edition Go pin, and a luxury punch-card bookmark.
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From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World, The MANIAC is now in paperback...
🟡‘There is no one writing like him anywhere in the world’ –
🟡‘Reads like physicist Carlo Rovelli crossed with the cosmic horror of HP Lovecraft’ –
🟡‘As engrossing as it is disturbing’ – , Books of the Year
🟡‘Darkly intelligent and feverishly propulsive’ –
A book of the year, from International shortlistee, Benjamín Labatut: book of the month
🌊New from the author of Boy 87, Ele Fountain’s Storm Child is out this week!
Maya’s life is about to be upended. After her dad’s fishing boat is ravaged by a relentless storm, Maya’s parents make the decision to start over-by moving to a tropical island. But making a change doesn’t always make a difference.
Far from her friends and her quiet seaside home where she spent all her time surfing, Maya is swept away by a storm much larger than herself. As Maya begins to realise that paradise is not always what it seems, can she bring her family back home again?
🏰 The latest Pushkin Press Classic! The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb, translated by Len Rix
At an end-of-season London soirée a young Hungarian scholar, Dr János Bátky, is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Bátky receives a mysterious phone call warning him not to go. Once there, nothing is quite as it seems…
Antal Szerb’s first novel is a gently satirical blend of gothic and romantic genres, crossed with a murder mystery to produce a fast-moving and often hilarious romp. But beneath the surface, Szerb’s steely intelligence poses disturbingly modern questions about the nature of self and reality.
Published today 🚂 The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White - the classic mystery behind Hitchcock’s masterpiece
Glamorous socialite Iris Carr is on her way back to England from a European summer holiday and looking forward to the comforts of home. On the train to Trieste, she strikes up a conversation with the kindly Miss Froy. At ease with her new companion, Irene dozes off, but wakes to find that Miss Froy has disappeared from the train. Worse still, all of her fellow passengers deny ever having seen such a woman.
Doubting her sanity and fearing for her safety, Iris is determined to find the vanished lady, but it seems almost everyone else aboard is conspiring against her - and soon she realises Miss Froy’s life is at stake...
Out right now…
June is Pride Month, and we’re honouring q***r hero Pedro Lemebel, the Chilean writer who became an icon of resistance and q***r transgression across Latin America. A Last Supper of Q***r Apostles, translated by Gwendolyn Harper, brings Lemebel’s searingly political, extravagantly stylish essays to readers in English for the very first time.
‘Astonishing and tender and quite outrageous’ –Tomasz Jedrowski
In a baroque, freewheeling style that fuses political urgency with playfulness, resistance with camp, Lemebel shines a light on lives and events that many wanted to suppress: the glitzy literary salon held above a torture chamber, the q***r s*x and community that bloomed in Santiago’s hidden corners and the last days of trans s*x workers dying of AIDS, each cast in the starring role of her own private tragedy.
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Out this week! Company by Shannon Sanders is a celebration of family – of shifting allegiances, riotous laughter, complicated love.
Meet four sisters - Cassandra, Fay, Lela, and Suzette - and their sprawling circle of daughters and sons, parents and cousins, friends and lovers. Here are strong women and enigmatic men whose quirks are written in their children’s faces, whose siblings are always getting their shared stories wrong, whose needs weigh heavily: money, status, a lover, a child - or simply company.
Journeying from a glittering soirée to a haunted porch, Company is a multigenerational, joyfully honest expression of belonging - and of how far we sometimes land from home.
Published today! Details⬇️ (and covers 😍- pick your favourite ➡️)
✍️The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue, tr. Michael Emmerich
♠️The Queen of Spades & Selected Works by Alexander Pushkin, tr. Anthony Briggs
🕰️And Time Was No More by Teffi, selection by Robert Chandler, tr. by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler
🌙Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
🖌️Hidden Faces, the only novel by Salvador Dalí, tr. Haakon Chevalier
Giveaway! 👀 Overstaying has received a VERY warm welcome! (5⭐s– | ‘hypnotic and masterly’– .tls ). To celebrate, we’re giving away THREE copies (as many days as a houseguest can be tolerated). To be in contention:
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So many readers have been telling us they’re loving The Noh Mask Murder!!
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Can you solve The Noh Mask Murder? Akimitsu Takagi, author of The Tattoo Murder, returns with a fiendish locked-room enigma perfect for fans of outstanding detective fiction from Agatha Christie to Seishi Yokomizo
Translated by Jesse Kirkwood
OUT RIGHT NOW! Our second short Japanese masterpiece from the author of Nipponia Nippon, Kazushige Abe, translated by Michael Emmerich
Mysterious Setting is a madcap, darkly comic novel about a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing…
‘Reinvents the novel of return and does so with a mordant wit and a sense of playfulness, that keeps you hooked right until the very end’ - Monica Ali, Women’s Prize Judges
‘Brilliantly surreal’ – Sana Goyal, Guardian Book of the Day
‘Strange and darkly funny... a remarkably assured and distinctive debut’ - Houman Barekat, TLS
‘What if a road-trip across Africa were directed by David Lynch?.. Hangman unfolds as a mystery... on another level, it’s an intelligent comedy... a thrill’ – Telegraph
‘A slim, stark, and captivatingly enigmatic début novel’ – New Yorker
‘A bravura twist on the immigrant novel’ – Daily Mail
‘A compelling tale of homecoming, exile and grief’ – iPaper
‘Elegant, revealing’ – Telegraph, Books of the Year
‘A bold, courageous, and resonant book’ – Vulture, The Best Books of 2023
‘Urgent and emotionally resonant’ – Vogue
‘Exceptional’ – New York Times
HANGMAN is out right now and longlisted for the
UNDISCOVERED by & translated by Julia Sanches, is longlisted for the (and it’s out right now)
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In an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artefacts, the spoils of European colonial plunder. As she peers through the glass, she sees sculptures of Indigenous faces that resemble her own – but the man responsible for pillaging them was her own great-great-grandfather, Austrian colonial explorer Charles Wiener.
In the wake of her father’s death, Gabriela begins delving into all she has inherited from her paternal line. From the brutal trail of racism and theft that Charles left behind to revelations of her father’s infidelity, she traces a legacy of abandonment, jealousy and colonial violence, in turn reframing her own struggles with desire, love and race. Seeking relief from these personal and historical wounds, Gabriela turns to the body and desire as sources of both constraint and potential freedom.
Blending personal, historical and fictional writing, Undiscovered tells of a search for identity beyond the old stories of patriarchs and plunder. Subversive, intimate and fiercely irreverent, it builds to a powerful call for decolonization.
🏳️🌈🎲 Keep your game face on - or roll the dice on love? The No-Girlfriend Rule is out now!
Seventeen-year-old Hollis Beckwith is on a quest to conquer the world of tabletop gaming. But her boyfriend’s ‘No Girlfriends at the Table’ rule means that Hollis will have to find her own group if she wants to join in.
Enter Gloria Castañeda and her all-girls game of S&S! Crowded at the table in Gloria’s apartment, Hollis finds unexpected friendships and epic adventures. With her character as armour, Hollis starts to believe that maybe she can be more than just fat, anxious and a little lost.
When an in-game crush develops between Hollis’s character and the bard played by cool, charismatic Aini Amin Shaw, the lines between the game and reality start to blur-and Hollis is left with a choice: keep pretending, or roll the dice on love.
🍃Unearthing is out this week! Whether you’re looking for a resonant, beautiful memoir yourself or the perfect Mother’s Day gift, this is your book. Perfect for fans of Crying in H Mart - read on…
Three months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018, she gets the result of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, desperately seeking answers from her ailing mother whose memories and English are failing. Maclear no longer speaks Japanese, her mother’s first language, so she turns to her mother’s second fluent tongue: the wild and green language of soil, seed, leaf and mulch.
Can the humble act of tending a garden provide common ground for an inquisitive daughter and her complicated mother? What role does storytelling play in unearthing the past and making sense of a life? What gets planted and what gets buried? Unearthing is a captivating and propulsive story of inheritance that goes far beyond heredity, full of unflinching insights into grief, loyalty and the relationship between mothers and daughters.
🍃GIVEAWAY🍃 1 week until Mother’s Day! If you’ve not got a gift yet, here’s something for you. Enter for a chance to win a hardback of Unearthing + a grow your own seed pack + it’s all wrapped in bespoke paper. Here’s what to do:
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Three months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018, she gets the result of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, desperately seeking answers from her ailing mother whose memories and English are failing. Maclear no longer speaks Japanese, her mother’s first language, so she turns to her mother’s second fluent tongue: the wild and green language of soil, seed, leaf and mulch.
Can the humble act of tending a garden provide common ground for an inquisitive daughter and her complicated mother? What role does storytelling play in unearthing the past and making sense of a life? What gets planted and what gets buried? Unearthing is a captivating and propulsive story of inheritance that goes far beyond heredity, full of unflinching insights into grief, loyalty and the relationship between mothers and daughters.
❓Did you know: Hesse’s Demian inspired the .bighitofficial song ‘Blood, Sweat & Tears’? The book actually appears in the BTS music video! 🎵
This second Hesse classic, following Siddhartha, leads five new additions to the Pushkin Press Classics library:
🪶Demian by Hermann Hesse, translated by W.J. Strachan
🌙And the Earth Will Sit On the Moon by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Oliver Ready
🎼Change Your Life by Rainer Maria Rilke, selected & translated by Martyn Crucefix
📣A Different Sound, selected & introduced by Lucy Scholes, featuring authors including Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Taylor and many more
📨Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner by Henry James
No matter who (or what) your true love is, there are reads for you, just in time for Valentine’s Day. ➡️ to find your match, couple up, curl up and start reading!
Do you have a book love of your life? Or one that got away, with things left unfinished..? 💔
Mary by Anne Eekhout, translated by Laura Watkinson
Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson
Nothing Can Hurt You Now by Simone Campos, translated by Rahul Bery
Vengeance of the Pirate Queen by Tricia Levenseller
Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe, translated by Kerim Yasar
Kung Hei Fat Choi to everyone celebrating this weekend! If you’re looking for a gift, something to share as a family, or a way to learn about and celebrate a culture (new or familiar), Dim Sum Palace is the book for you! 🥟
Inspired by childhood memories of epic dim sum feasts, X. Fang’s glorious picture book is a delicious adventure with a loving helping of food, family and culture: out now in bookshops and online as Book of the Month
🐦⬛🩸From Tender is the Flesh author , Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird is out now in this stunning new paperback.
The master of contemporary horror has penned this collection, translated by Sarah Moses, to shock, delight, and disturb: do you dare read?
🧑⚖️The Trials of Lila Dalton have begun! has penned a thriller like no other: Black Mirror meets Shutter Island in a novel that described as ‘unputdownable’ and called ‘mind-blowing’.
How do you tell the courtroom you have no idea who you are?
Feel the fall of the Soviet Union through the eyes of the women who lived it.
Award-winning writer Sasha Salzmann’s new novel Glorious People is an engrossing, rich portrait, full of unforgettable characters. This is a captivating love letter to mothers and daughters: out this week
Translated by Imogen Taylor
❄️As one generation succeeds another, Sámi voices interweave and form a spellbinding hymn to lands and traditions lost and reclaimed.
Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson, translated by Saskia Vogel, is published today!
Thelma and Louise? Taken? Real Easy? Nothing Can Hurt You Now is Simone Campos' take on all these and more - a punchy, feminist neo-noir like no other, translated by Rahul Berry, now in paperback!
Lucinda has lived her whole life in the shadow of herglamorous and outgoing model sister, Viviana. But when Viviana suddenly disappears on a trip to São Paulo, Lucinda discovers her sister's secret life - a thriving career as a high-end s*x worker. Convinced that someone on her sister's client list is responsible, Lucinda unites with Viviana's girlfriend, Graziane, and they set out to uncover the truth.
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IS DIFFERENT DANGEROUS? Acclaimed author of School for Nobodies and The Three Impossibles, @susienottbower is back with a refreshingly comic and fast-paced mystery! Link in bio to read. Ophelia Bottom longs for an ordinary life: to have normal, well-behaved parents rather than embarrassing actors, and to live in a house that stays still. Instead, she’s stuck living in a rickety converted van 🚐 - and having to manage her parents’ often disastrous plays at Bottom’s Travelling Theatre 🎭 - until the family are forced to stay put in the seemingly idyllic town of Stopford… 🏭 #pushkinpress #pushkinchildrens #thedangerouslifeofopheliabottom #middlegradebooks #bouncebooks #susiebower #middlegrade #bookstagrammeruk #bookstagram #childrensbooks #childrensbook #kidsbooks #childrensmentalhealth #shoo! #shoo #SchoolforNobodies #TheThreeImpossibles #kidsliterature
She’s pink. She’s blue. She’s the new middle grade fiction by Kereen Getten @kezywrites , author of the much-loved WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU MANGOES 🥭🥭. IF YOU READ THIS promises to be an epic treasure hunt filled with secrets and clues, and it’s out September 2022. 🔍🔍 👉 Pre-order https://pushkinpress.com/books/if-you-read-this/ #IfYouReadThisBook #kereengetten #whenlifegivesyoumangoes #pushkinpress #pushkinchildrens
We are SO excited to share the cover of The Mystery of the Missing Mum with you all 🎉 Head to the Pushkin website to pre-order @francesmoloney’s hilarious and charming middle-grade debut now (link in bio)
Feast your eyes on the cover of Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson🔥🔥🔥 This revolutionary book will awaken you to the richness of cooking as a means of experiencing the self and the world. Out August 25th, pre-order yours now on the Pushkin Press website (link in bio 👉)
Feast your eyes on the cover of Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson 🔥🔥🔥 This revolutionary book will awaken you to the richness of cooking as a means of experiencing the self and the world. Out August 25th, pre-order yours now on the Pushkin Press website (link in bio 👉)
We are thrilled to reveal the cover of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by @deeshaphilyaw 🍑🍑🍑 Receiving rave reviews from the likes of @candicec_w, @roxanegay74 and @caleb_anelson, you definitely want to pre-order your copy now.
We are thrilled to reveal the cover of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by @deeshaphilyaw 🍑🍑🍑 Receiving rave reviews from the likes of @candicec_w, @roxanegay74 and @caleb_anelson, you definitely want to pre-order your copy now.
