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Have you read Jamie Richards’ extraordinary translation of Marosia Castaldi’s THE HUNGER OF WOMEN yet? Winner of the ALT...
06/11/2024

Have you read Jamie Richards’ extraordinary translation of Marosia Castaldi’s THE HUNGER OF WOMEN yet? Winner of the ALTA National Translation Award for Prose, Castaldi’s masterpiece is a tribute not only to the tradition of women’s writing on hearth and home but to the legacy of such boundary-breaking feminist writers as Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector, and Hélène Cixous.

Castaldi introduces us to Rosa, midway through life and alone. Her husband passed away long ago, and her cosmopolitan daughter is already out the door, keen to marry and move to the city. At loose ends, Rosa decides to transplant herself to the flat, foggy Lombardy provinces from her native Naples and there finds a way to renew herself—by opening a restaurant, and in the process coming to a new appreciation of the myriad relationships possible between women, from friendship to caregiving to collaboration to emotional and physical love.

In bookshops now.

We’ve looking back over Hanne Ørstavik’s tour of the UK. A huge thank you to all of the booksellers, writers, institutio...
06/11/2024

We’ve looking back over Hanne Ørstavik’s tour of the UK. A huge thank you to all of the booksellers, writers, institutions and readers for a very warm welcome.

Happy UK & Ireland publication day to , whose novel SEASON OF THE SWAMP, translated by Lisa Dillman, is out now. New Orl...
05/11/2024

Happy UK & Ireland publication day to , whose novel SEASON OF THE SWAMP, translated by Lisa Dillman, is out now.

New Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec exile from Mexico named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city.



Accompanied by a small group of fellow exiles who plot their return and hoped-for victory over the Mexican dictatorship, Juárez immerses himself in the city, which absorbs him like a sponge. He and his compatriots work odd jobs, fall victim to the cons and confusions of a strange young nation, succumb to the hallucinations of yellow fever, and fall in love with the music and food all around them. But unavoidable, too, is the stark trade in human beings.



With the extraordinary linguistic play and love of popular forms that have characterized all of Herrera’s fiction, SEASON OF THE SWAMP is a magnificent work of speculative history, a love letter to the city of New Orleans and its polyglot culture, and a cautionary statement that informs our understanding of the world we live in.

Like most of you, we’re looking forward to reading Deborah Levy’s THE POSITION OF SPOONS (out November 7 from ). To keep...
04/11/2024

Like most of you, we’re looking forward to reading Deborah Levy’s THE POSITION OF SPOONS (out November 7 from ). To keep ourselves busy while we wait, we’ve been delving into Levy’s And Other Stories backlist. From the Booker-shortlisted SWIMMING HOME to the philosophical poem AN AMOROUS DISCOURSE IN THE SUBURBS OF HELL, our Deborah Levy titles showcase the versatility of this extraordinary writer.

Watch our for the slugs this Halloween. VERDIGRIS by Michele Mari, translated by , is an essential read this spooky seas...
30/10/2024

Watch our for the slugs this Halloween. VERDIGRIS by Michele Mari, translated by , is an essential read this spooky season.

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At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents’ modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in his grandfather’s library. The greatest mystery he’s ever encountered, however, doesn’t come from a book – it’s the groundskeeper, Felice, a sometimes frightening, sometimes gentle, always colourful man of uncertain age who speaks an enchanting dialect and whose memory gets worse with each passing day. When Michelino volunteers to help the old man by providing him with clever mnemonic devices to keep his memory alive, the boy soon finds himself obsessed with piecing together the eerie hodgepodge of Felice’s biography . . . a quest that leads to the uncovering of skeletons in N**i uniforms in the attic, to Felice’s admission that he can hear the voices of the dead, and to a new perspective on Felice’s endless war against the insatiable local slugs, who are by no means merely a horticultural threat.

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It’s the season of transparent, formless creatures and things pulsating in the attic. Mario Levrero’s classic collection...
28/10/2024

It’s the season of transparent, formless creatures and things pulsating in the attic. Mario Levrero’s classic collection of weird tales THE THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE, translated by Annie McDermott and Kit Schluter, is not to be missed this spooky season.

Available in the UK and North America now.

CONGRATULATIONS to who has won the National Translation Award in Prose for her translation of Marosia Castaldi’s THE H...
27/10/2024

CONGRATULATIONS to who has won the National Translation Award in Prose for her translation of Marosia Castaldi’s THE HUNGER OF WOMEN.

This is what the judges had to say:

‘THE HUNGER OF WOMEN seamlessly defies literary conventions to tell the story of an unconventional narrator who holds the wisdoms of ages passed on to her through food and the female body. Castaldi, through Richards, invites us to a landscape of the everyday, to be and become with a woman who offers us “the miracle of the host.” In this feast of words and rhythms, we, addressed as Reader, find ourselves, in intimacy with a life in motion, experiencing an insatiable desire for tastes on our tongues and touches on our skin.’

Looking for a weird and unsettling read this spooky season? We have you covered.
23/10/2024

Looking for a weird and unsettling read this spooky season? We have you covered.

A finalist for both the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award, Morgan Talty’s F...
22/10/2024

A finalist for both the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award, Morgan Talty’s FIRE EXIT has been receiving glowing reviews in the UK. Have you read it yet?

Congratulations to whose translation of THE HUNGER OF WOMEN by Marosia Castaldi has been longlisted for the 2024 Warwic...
21/10/2024

Congratulations to whose translation of THE HUNGER OF WOMEN by Marosia Castaldi has been longlisted for the 2024 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

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Rosa, midway through life, is alone. Her husband passed away long ago, and her cosmopolitan daughter is already out the door, keen to marry and move to the city. At loose ends, Rosa decides to transplant herself to the flat, foggy Lombardy provinces from her native Naples and there finds a way to renew herself—by opening a restaurant, and in the process coming to a new appreciation of the myriad relationships possible between women, from friendship to caregiving to collaboration to emotional and physical love.

Unconventional in style and yet rivetingly accessible, The Hunger of Women is a novel infused with the pleasures of the body and the little shocks of daily life. Made up of Rosa’s observations, reflections, and recipes, it tracks her mental journey back to reconnect with her own embattled mother’s age-old wisdom, forward to her daughter’s inconceivable future, and laterally to the world of Rosa’s new community of lovers and customers. A tribute not only to the tradition of women’s writing on hearth and home but to the legacy of such boundary-breaking feminist writers as Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and Hélène Cixous, The Hunger of Women is nothing less than a literary feast.

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HANNE ØRSTAVIK ON TOUR: To celebrate the publication of STAY WITH ME (tr. Martin Aitken), Hanne Ørstavik will be appeari...
15/10/2024

HANNE ØRSTAVIK ON TOUR: To celebrate the publication of STAY WITH ME (tr. Martin Aitken), Hanne Ørstavik will be appearing at , , and .

Tickets available now via our events page (link in bio)

OUT NOW: THE THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE by Mario Levrero, translated by and Annie McDermott. Widely viewed as one of...
15/10/2024

OUT NOW: THE THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE by Mario Levrero, translated by and Annie McDermott.

Widely viewed as one of the most inventive bodies of work from 20th-century Latin America, Mario Levrero’s writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination. In none other of the author’s books is this imagination so clearly on display as in The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine, his 1970 debut collection of stories. It gathers a variety of Levrero’s earliest and most formally inventive publications, ranging from dazzling single paragraph micro-fictions à la Donald Barthelme to adventurous Lewis Carroll-esque tales of forty pages’ length.

From the shocking surreal twists of ‘Beggar Street’ to the Escher-like grammatical maze of ‘The Boarding House’, via the pseudo-fairy tale classic ‘The Basement’, this book explores uncanny domestic spaces, using the structures of the stories themselves as tools for re-inventing narrative possibility.

As part of our series of bookseller Q&As, we spoke to Lily at Cardiff’s about the pleasures of reading in Bute Park, th...
14/10/2024

As part of our series of bookseller Q&As, we spoke to Lily at Cardiff’s about the pleasures of reading in Bute Park, the importance of community and her love for Eva Baltasar’s Mammoth (tr. ). You can read the full Q&A on our Ampersand blog (link in bio).

Thank you to everyone - readers, discussants and booksellers - who has joined us so far on .azem’s tour of Britain, laun...
11/10/2024

Thank you to everyone - readers, discussants and booksellers - who has joined us so far on .azem’s tour of Britain, launching the UK publication of The Book of Disappearance (tr. ) ✨

Azem still has events at , , and with in the coming days. You can find more information on all of these dates on our website.

COMPETITION TIME! We have FOUR extremely chic MAMMOTH pins, featuring Anna Morrison’s iconic cover design, to give away....
08/10/2024

COMPETITION TIME! We have FOUR extremely chic MAMMOTH pins, featuring Anna Morrison’s iconic cover design, to give away. To enter the draw, simply like this post and share your favourite line in the comments below. Closing date: Tuesday 15 October.

MAMMOTH by Eva Baltasar, translated by is available now.

OCTOBER 24: Join Annie McDermott, co-translator of THE THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE by Mario Levrero, as she talks to ...
07/10/2024

OCTOBER 24: Join Annie McDermott, co-translator of THE THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE by Mario Levrero, as she talks to about the thrills and challenges of translating this cult classic.
Tickets available via our events page (link in bio).

THE THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE, translated by and Annie McDermott, publishes in the UK and North America on October 15.

FIRE EXIT by features gorgeous cover artwork by Penobscot artist . The artist explains her process:‘This design feature...
04/10/2024

FIRE EXIT by features gorgeous cover artwork by Penobscot artist . The artist explains her process:

‘This design features elements of a traditional double curve motif, which can symbolize events, people, or ideas. I drew inspiration from archival drawings of double curves created by other Penobscots in the 1800s. In my design, the curved lines represent our river, flowing separately on both sides of a flame. The flame, a powerful and sustaining symbol, represents our humanity and survival. Above the flame, I included a drop of blood to symbolize the blood quantum system imposed on Indigenous people since colonial times. Creating this piece has been deeply meaningful to me, as it allows me to contribute to the narrative of my people by contextualizing traditional patterns with contemporary ideas and symbolism.’

FIRE EXIT is now available in UK bookshops.

Join Hanne Ørstavik at the on October 27 as she discusses her latest novel STAY WITH ME, translated by Martin Aitken, w...
03/10/2024

Join Hanne Ørstavik at the on October 27 as she discusses her latest novel STAY WITH ME, translated by Martin Aitken, with . Tickets available via the link in our bio.

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Publishing in the UK in February, and in North America in April 2024, Lublin by Manya Wilkinson is an absurd, riveting, alarming, and hilarious tale of three young boys who set off from Mezritsh with a case of bristle brushes to sell in the great market town of Lublin. Pre-orders can be made on bookshop.org UK and US as well as at your favourite indie bookshops! ‘Wilkinson is a superb comic writer. She’s also gifted in startling poetic compression, turning on a sixpence to move into moments of horror and prophecy. Reading Lublin, you have to laugh; you want to look away from what follows, but you can’t.’ Sean O’Brien (Massive thanks to Jude Gates from Faber for the 📚videos)

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright📝. In a small Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, Cause Man Steel is chasing a mad vision: to futureproof his people against the climate crisis and to secure their economic independence via a nation-wide feral donkey transport scheme.☁️🫏☀️ As we get ready to publish Wright’s phenomenal work, Praiseworthy, in the UK, on 02 November 2023, our team and members of the public share videos of reading their favourite sections from the book. 📚✨ Available to pre-order in the UK from your local bookshop or Bookshop.org UK

Publishing on 06 Sept 2023, Star 111 by Lutz Seiler, tr. Tess Lewis
Publishing on 06 Sept 2023, Star 111 by Lutz Seiler, tr. Tess Lewis

This beautiful book, part of our new series, designed by Elisa von Randow, made with G . F Smith colorplan card, at the James Cropper mill in the Lake District and sporting black biodegradable foil is printed at Clays Ltd is out next week. We can’t wait for you to hold it and lose yourself in Seiler’s deeply moving story about the German reunification and a family exploded by political change which must find its way back together. Novel 📚 Star 111 by Lutz Seiler, tr. Tess Lewis, publishes in the UK on 06 September 2023 Poetry📝 Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler, tr. Stefan Tobler, publishes in the UK on 06 September 2023 and in North America on 02 April 2024.

In this film by Ana Godinho de Matos (Chameleoneye Films), Deborah Levy talks about her book, An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell from her writing shed. Coming in paperback later this January, An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell is a dystopian philosophical poem about individual freedom and the search for the good life – a storm of romance and slapstick, of heavenly and earthly delights. Order your copy here: https://www.andotherstories.org/an-amorous-discourse-in-the-suburbs-of-hell-2/ #deborahlevy #poem #poetrybook #manbookershortlist #paperback #authorvideo #poetryreading #shortfilm #authorshortfilm #chameleoneyefilms

Fifty Forgotten Books: The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
Fifty Forgotten Books: The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson

Ahead of next week’s publication of Fifty Forgotten Books, R.B. Russell (Tartarus Press) is working on a wonderful series of videos appreciating lost gems over other well-worn classics. Here he recommends Rachel Ferguson's The Brontes Went to Woolworths for fans of Jane Austen's classic Emma. 📚 You can watch them so far on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Qf3QcxWXhjoraM1VB1LO9j_s5dZ7C8T

Guess who has been selected as a Regional & Country Winner for the Small Press of the Year in the North England region! 🎊🎉

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