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"Two-hour books to be devoured in a single sitting:literary cinema for those fatigued by film."

27/08/2024

DJINNS by Fatma Aydemir tr. Jon Cho-Polizzi is in the Guardian’s ‘Best New Novels for Autumn 2024’… alongside Sally Rooney, Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami no less.

DJINNS is now available to preorder via our website for delivery on 22 October. Link in bio.

“Sometimes you just want a big old family saga to lose yourself in – and there’s none more engrossing this autumn than Djinns, the first English outing for a German-Turkish writer whose nuanced take on post-migration experience made her a controversial bestseller in her native Germany. It opens on the dying thoughts of Hüseyin, a Gastarbeiter metalworker suffering a fatal heart attack in the week he’s due to retire. Then come the lives of his children, from the eldest daughter he forced to marry early, to his youngest son, a high-schooler dangerously in love with another boy on his football team.” - Anthony Cummins, Guardian

16/08/2024

COVER REVEAL ALERT 🚨

We’re celebrating Women in Translation Month in style by revealing the cover of the latest book by the ultimate author/translator duo. Katja Oskamp and Jo Heinrich were awarded the 2023 Dublin Literary Award for their ‘warm and witty’ MARZAHN, MON AMOUR – and next month, we’ll be publishing their hotly anticipated English-language follow-up HALF SWIMMER... and in this stunning jacket no less.

Full of Oskamp’s characteristic humour and empathy, HALF SWIMMER is the story of Tanja – a girl growing up in in 1980s East Berlin. As the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. But she has other ideas. And so, it turns out, does the course of history.

Preorder now for delivery on 17th September – link to shop in bio!

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08/08/2024

You can still take advantage of our summer sale - and just in time for WITMonth, here are three books from women in translation included in the sale.

Hanne Ørstavik’s THE BLUE ROOM, translated by Deborah Dawkin, was her first in English - and it introduced her themes of intense familial relationships and unreliable narrators with aplomb. A Guardian Book of the Year in 2014, it’s ten years old this summer, but has lost none of its psychological and narrative power.

Also at 40% off is Senka Marić’s deeply personal, poetic and radically optimistic BODY KINTSUGI, translated by Celia Hawkesworth. This takes us on a journey through the mind and body under illness, as it traces the author’s experience with breast cancer.

Or take a trip to Reykjavík with Sigrún Pálsdóttir’s HISTORY. A MESS., translated by Lytton Smith. A gripping and satirical exploration of a highly intelligent mind under huge pressure, this Icelandic marvel asks fundamental questions about the roles of history, narrative, and knowledge itself, and dares us to try and separate a story from the process of creating it.

Get these titles (along with many others on our list) for 40% off, for a limited time only. Shop in bio.

29/07/2024

With still a couple of weeks to go on the Peirene Summer sale, let’s zone in on some of the German books which are 40% off on our website. Link to our website shop is in our bio, so fill your stiefel (boots).

Let’s start with last year’s Dublin Literary Award sensation MARZAHN, MON AMOUR by Katja Oskamp, translated by Jo Heinrich. This love letter to the East Berlin district of Marzahn and its inhabitants takes place in the clinic where the protagonist works as a chiropodist, and is full of tender, but honest, stories of her clients. A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime last year, it even garnered the praise of Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who said, “Oskamp knows how to capture the essence of people beautifully. They really come to life in her portraits. A powerful book.”

Another story which springs from East Germany is YOU WOULD HAVE MISSED ME by Birgit Vanderbeke, translated by Jamie Bulloch, which introduces the reader to a little girl living as an East German refugee in the West. A dark and troubling story dealing with abuse, it nonetheless shimmers with Vanderbeke’s brilliant eye for detail and wit.

Finally (although there are several other books translated from German for you explore on our website) Richard Weihe’s SEA OF INK, translated again by Jamie Bulloch, takes us into a fraught historical moment, as the Ming dynasty crumbles in the early 17th century, leaving a former royal needing to feign madness in order to escape his fate. Elegant storytelling with the added bonus of ten beautiful illustrations.

22/07/2024

We’ve been running our summer sale since last Monday, and there are three weeks left. So we thought we’d highlight some of the books on offer via our website: www.peirenepress.com/shop

Shatila Stories is a unique work of fiction, written by nine Palestinian and Syrian refugees living in Shatila refugee camp, and translated into English by Nashwa Gowanlock. This is a novel that Khaled Hosseini characterizes as “not about the refugee voice, but born and told through it”, and through the multiplicity of voices comes a single powerful work of art, and act of witness.

Saneh Sangsuk’s The Understory and Venom, both translated by Mui Poopoksakul. transport the reader to the Thai Jungle, exploring its majesty and plenitude, while hinting at what has been lost as the country modernised. But most importantly these are thrilling books about demonic tigers and furious snakes, and the fear they strike in the human heart.

Another poetic and dark exploration of a changing world and our relationship to nature is Of Saints and Miracles, Manuel Astur’s depiction of rural northern Spain, translated by Claire Wadie. After a terrible mistake on his family farm, Marcelino goes on the run, and becomes an unlikely folk hero in the process.

The Peirene Summer Sale will run until 12 August. For up to 40% off most titles in our list, head over to our website.

15/07/2024

We’re running a Summer Sale for the next four weeks, with up to 40% off our paperbacks, ebooks and collections until August 12th. Explore our online bookshop to make the most of the discount, and get your summer reading sorted.🌻

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12/07/2024

A reminder that we are giving away a FREE COPY of THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN to everyone who subscribes to our 6-book subscription in July.

Subscribers around the world have been receiving their latest Peirene read: GLÓRIA by Victor Heringer, translated by James Young and Sophie Lewis. If you would like to be among their number, and get the book ahead of publication on July 23rd, don’t delay and sign up to our six book subscription now: https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/subscription/peirene-subscription-six-books/

If you subscribe in July and leave the note HERINGER at checkout, we’ll include Heringer’s first novel, THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN, in the first package you receive. Fantástico!

11/07/2024

Join us at The Hastings Bookshop on Friday 19th July for an evening of Brazilian literature: talking translation with James Young and Sophie Lewis, who have brought Victor Heringer’s prize-winning GLÓRIA into English.

Heringer’s previous book THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN found fans in Zadie Smith, Rónán Hession and critics from the Guardian to the New York Review of Books. His tragic death in 2018, aged just twenty-nine, robbed us of one of the most exciting voices in world literature.

James and Sophie will be chatting to International Booker Prize shortlisted translator Annie McDermott. Tickets free, booking essential 👉 LINK IN BIO

05/07/2024

The first copies of GLÓRIA by the inimitable Victor Heringer (trans. James Young & Sophie Lewis) have been going out to our six-book subscribers over the last few weeks. There is still time to get your hands on a copy before publication on 23 July by subscribing, and we’re offering a FREE COPY of THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN to everyone who signs up or upgrades to the six-book subscription in July. Just write ‘HERINGER’ in the order note (not coupon code) at checkout.

One for fans of Italo Calvino, Salman Rushdie and Jorge Luis Borges. GLÓRIA is a metafictional tale of a family like no other, following three brothers – Benjamin, Daniel and Abel – as they do battle with online forums, religious hysteria, the art world of Rio de Janeiro, ants, aunts, love, humiliation and a stammering God. It’s the second novel in English by the acclaimed Brazilian author Victor Heringer, following the THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN, published by Peirene in 2023, which was praised by Zadie Smith as ‘a truly singular novel’, ingenious, funny and elliptical, and in the TLS as ‘formally playful, inventive and moving’.

These are the only novels penned by Heringer, whose death in 2018, aged just 29, was a huge loss to international literature. His was an extraordinary voice, and we are grateful to be able to share these books with you.

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04/06/2024

Happy publication day to UN AMOR 🌱

This simmering story of obsession and small-town unease, by acclaimed Spanish writer Sara Mesa (tr. .whittemore1 ), is now available via our website & through bookshops.

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17/05/2024

Calling all Manchester readers! 📣 Sara Mesa and translator Katie Whittemore will be at Manchester Blackwells on the 28th of May to discuss their novel UN AMOR. A simmering tale of obsession and small town unease, this is the first UK publication for the acclaimed Spanish writer and evening not to be missed.

Tickets are £3.50 and bookable at the link in our bio. We look forward to seeing you there.

16/05/2024

UN AMOR by Sara Mesa (tr. Katie Whittemore) is now available though our subscription… and it’s looking good👌

Also available for pre-order (published June 4th).

A simmering story of obsession and small-town unease, UN AMOR is the first UK publication for the best-selling Spanish author.

‘tense and beautiful like a crouching bird’ - Mariana Enríquez

‘a romance that reads like a thriller... consuming and essential’ - Martha Sprackland

‘When I read Sara Mesa, I’m there in the Wild West, sifting through sand. There is a restless enjoyment, an inhospitable beauty in my sieve. And then something miraculous when gold appears before my eyes.’ – Eva Baltasar

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06/05/2024

Book Tour Alert! ‼️ Sara Mesa and translator Katie Whittemore will be in the UK to discuss their novel UN AMOR in the last week of May. Join us in Manchester, Edinburgh and London for an evening of conversation.

Sign up for free (Manchester Blackwall’s £3.50), using the links in our bio. We look forward to seeing you all there!

UN AMOR is a claustrophobic story of desire and small-town unease, from one of Spain’s most distinctive literary voices. A young woman moves to the rural village of La Escapa, fleeing past mistakes in the city. But life in her new home is anything but easy and mutual misunderstandings with her neighbours simmer just below the surface.

‘Sara Mesa’s writing is mysterious and fascinating: her characters brush against the limits in environments of fierce false calm. UN AMOR is one of her best novels – tense and beautiful like a crouching bird.’
– Mariana Enríquez, author of OUR SHARE OF THE NIGHT and THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED.

‘Sara Mesa sees the world through the lens of power, exploring how questions of strength and weakness shape human behaviour.’
– TLS

‘When I read Sara Mesa, I’m there in the Wild West, sifting through the sand. There is a restless enjoyment, an inhospitable beauty, in my sieve. And then something miraculous when gold appears before my eyes.’
– Eva Baltasar, author of BOULDER

Published June 4th

16/04/2024

Happy Publication day to Andrej Nikolaidis and translator Will Firth. 🎉

ANOMALY is a wild, provocative carnival of a novel from one of the Balkans’ most distinctive literary voices.

“Whether it makes you think of life and what you’re doing with yours, or what to make of death, or how a novel so slender can ask such crunchy questions about life, Nikolaidis prompts more questions than he cares to answer. That’s exactly why it’s so compelling.”– Rory McNeill, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘A startlingly imaginative piece of work... Anomaly stands as an outstanding testament to a frustrating, tiresome and deadly truth.’ – Charlie Connely, NEW EUROPEAN

“If there is justice in the world, Nikolaidis’ novel should become a bestseller bigger than the novels of James Patterson or John Grisham. And since there is no justice in the world, let us hope that a divine caprice will nonetheless make this insanely readable page-turner a mega success.” – Slavoj Žižek

12/04/2024

There’s just a few days left of the Peirene Spring Sale — 40% off books and collections, and 10% off subscriptions and gift subscriptions.

Sale runs until 15 April. ✨

10/04/2024

NEVER was an apocalyptic rain of blood so wonderful 🩸

Excellent review by Rory NcNeill in last week’s Sunday Telegraph for ANOMALY by Andrej Nikolaidis. Pub 16th April. Available for pre-order now ⏰

03/04/2024

We are running a SPRING SALE for the next two weeks! Head to our website for 40% off individual titles, including ebooks and audiobooks, and 10% off subscriptions. Runs until 15th April. 🌱

07/03/2024

Hot off the press. Andrej Nikolaidis’ ANOMALY.

With dark humour and a remorselessness reminiscent of Thomas Bernhard and Pier Paolo Pasolini, ANOMALY is an exhilarating, provocative carnival of a novel, from one of Europe’s most distinctive literary voices.

Out April 16th. Pre-order now or subscribe to receive it early, along with five further translated titles 💌

05/03/2024

Thank you to everyone who came down to our events to celebrate the launch of ABOUT UNCLE by Rebecca Gisler last week. And special thank you for and for hosting us and to Lamorna Ash & BBC R4 Open Book 📚

Rebecca was treated to some stereotypical British weather, but it didn’t dampen our spirits… what a brilliant week ☔️

23/02/2024

We are delighted to announce that ANOMALY by Andrej Nikolaidis has been selected for an English Pen Award. It’s the first translation from Montenegrin to be included in the programme. Thanks to for supporting this book 💛

Set on New Year’s Eve on the last day of the last year of human existence, ANOMALY is an exhilarating, provocative carnival of a novel, from one of Europe’s most distinctive literary voices.

Initially known for his outspoken political views, Andrej Nikolaidis is an ardent anti-war activist, novelist and journalist. ANOMALY is his fourth book to be published in English.

Slavoj Žižek said of Nikolaidis’ previous work: ‘If there is justice in the world, Nikolaidis’ novel should become a bestseller bigger than the novels of James Patterson or John Grisham. And since there is no justice in the world, let us hope that a divine caprice will nonetheless make this insanely readable page-turner a mega success.’

Published 16th April. Available now to pre-order 🔥

22/02/2024

Calling all Dutch>English Translators ☎️

There is just over one week left to enter the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize!

AND we are delighted to announce that the winner's translation will also be published in the US by Two Lines Press

21/02/2024

Well this is nice news! Thanks to for nominating us as a regional/country finalist for Small Press of the Year. And congrats to all the finalists, wherever they may be! 🍾

25/01/2024

Join us for two events launching the first Peirene book of 2024: ABOUT UNCLE by Rebecca Gisler, translated by Jordan Stump.

Rebecca is coming to Bath and London this February to discuss her prizewinning debut. Tickets via and 💛

19/12/2023

Our 2023 wrapped! Before we wave goodbye to the year, we’d like to share our top 10 highlights. Thank you to everyone who has bought, read and recommended one of our books this year. Happy Holidays and see you in 2024!

1. We started the year in January (as is traditional) with the news that Venom by Saneh Sangsuk, tr. by Mui Poopoksakul, had been selected for an English Pen Award.

2. In February we published our first title of 2023: History. A Mess. by Sigrún Pálsdóttir.

3. Also in February, we announced the winner of the 2023 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize: Marielle Sutherland. Her brilliant translation of Yael Inokai’s A Simple Intervention will be published in October 2024.

4. Spring came, and it brought glad tidings from Ireland.... in May Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp, tr. by Jo Heinrich, won the Dublin Literary Award, the most valuable prize for a single literary work.

5. It’s not every day you receive an email from Zadie Smith - and when it’s a note in praise of The Love of Singular Men, even better! Smith compared the novel to Cortazar & Nabokov, and she was just the first of many fans…

6. In late August, we sent hundreds of copies of As the Eagle Flies by Nolwenn Le Blevennec to subscribers. And then, Nolwenn was delivered to us (by a Eurostar), for events in Bristol and London.

7. In September 2023, we launched a new six book subscription: the three novellas in our novella subscription, plus THREE MORE books from around the world.

8. Autumn began in earnest in October, and it was that month we published The Understory by Saneh Sangsuk, tr. by Mui Poopoksakul, the second book by the award-winning Thai author we published this year.

9. In early December, the SOA Translation Prize shortlists were announced including: John Litell’s translation of Nordic Fauna by Andrea Lundgren and Claire Wadie’s translation of Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur.

10. We closed the year with an announcement in the Bookseller: next summer we will be publishing Un Amor by Sara Mesa - selected as the best novel of 2020 by several major Spanish newspapers and adapted for film by Isabel Coixet.

18/12/2023

And that’s a wrap! Our 2023 publishing programme is now available to purchase from our website in five and three-book packages, alongside 2024 subscriptions and gift subscriptions.

The three-book package includes HISTORY. A MESS. by Sigrún Pálsdóttir, THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN by Victor Heringer, and AS THE EAGLE FLIES by Nolwenn Le Blevennec. The five-book package also features two novels by award-winning Thai author Saneh Sangsuk, VENOM and THE UNDERSTORY.

A NOTE FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS: If you would like to add gift wrapping or a personalized gift card, just leave us a note at check out. All Christmas presents will be stamped ‘to open on the 25th’. Last date for UK Christmas delivery: 12pm December 20th

15/12/2023

All I want for Christmas is Uncle….

He’s arrived. The first book in the 2024 series has been landing on doorsteps (via Royal Mail sleigh & chimney) all over the world. And you can still subscribe in time for Christmas!

ABOUT UNCLE is a debut novel by Rebecca Gisler, winner of the 2022 Swiss Prize for literature, translated from French by Jordan Stump. It follows a young woman who moves to a quiet seaside town to care for her uncle, a disabled veteran with questionable habits. As her world grows smaller, she finds herself relying on this man – her only companion.

ABOUT UNCLE is available now as part of our 3 book and 6 book subscription & gift subscription. If you would like to add gift wrapping or a personalized gift card, just leave us a note at check out. All Christmas presents will be stamped ‘to open on the 25th’.

Last date for UK Christmas delivery: 12pm December 20th

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14/12/2023

Thank you to & Adam Dalva for choosing THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN for their 2023 top reads!

“It is so rare to be absolutely shocked by a novel—when The Love of Singular Men arrived, I was initially drawn in by the incredibly positive blurb from Zadie Smith. But somehow, I was still caught totally off guard: what a fun, unsettling, and bold book this is! It breaks every form (necessitating a virtuosic effort by the translator, James Young) from the line level to the scaffold, with illustrations and lists and photographs along the way. Victor Heringer tells a q***r story of love and heartbreak that’s at once familiar and unique. There’s one section that I can’t let go of that ripples uncannily into the real world, the result of a public request to readers to share the name of the person they love. Heringer died very young and very tragically—I didn’t know to miss him, because I had never heard of him until I read this novel. But I miss him now.” - Adam Dalva, Words Without Borders

13/12/2023

It’s secret Santa season again 🫣 — but don’t worry, we’ve got you.

Introducing the Praeknamdang collection: two books set in the Thai jungle by the award winning author Saneh Sangsuk. This is lush & lyrical storytelling at its finest.

And, just a reminder that we have a range of gift ideas on our website, including gift subscriptions, sets and single books. If you would like to add gift wrapping or a personalised gift card, just leave us a note at checkout. All Christmas presents will be stamped “to open on the 25th”.

Cut off for guaranteed Christmas delivery: 12pm, 20th December.

09/12/2023

Tis the season for giving and receiving books... often the same books two years in a row 😬. At Peirene we've got some gift ideas that your loved ones PROBABLY won't already have, including individual titles, packages and subscriptions. Our books are all beautifully designed and printed with premium materials and french flaps. They make perfect collectable gifts.

We can add gift wrapping or a personalized gift card, just leave us a note with your preference at check out. All Christmas presents will be stamped 'to open on the 25th'.

Last date for Christmas delivery: 12pm December 20th.

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Happy publication day to GLÓRIA by Victor Heringer, translated by Sophie Lewis (@sophietimes) & James Young (@seeadarkness)!!! We’re so proud to be the UK publisher of V.H., a remarkable & unique writer. Thank you to everyone who was a part of bringing this book into English. This is a video that Heringer, a properly restless artist, created to mark the publication of GLÓRIA in Brazil twelve years ago. He was twenty-four years old when the book came out. Thanks to James Young for the subtitling. https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/books-2/gloria/

Yesterday by Juan Emar: Book Launch

Join us to celebrate the publication of Yesterday by Juan Emar, in translation by Megan McDowell. The event will include a panel discussion, readings in English and Spanish, and an audience Q&A. Chair: Carlos Fonseca Speakers: Megan McDowell and Alejandro Zambra

The Peirene Stevns Translation Prize

This video shows the different ways the first few words of Claudio Morandini’s book Neve, cane, piede were translated as part of the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. Seeing the variations in the translations was fascinating and today we’re delighted to announce the winner of the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize 2019 on our website! Find out the winner here: https://www.peirenepress.com/prize/ This has been an incredible experience for us and we’re thrilled to have found a worthy winner. We’ll be making some changes to the award in 2020 so watch this space!

To explain what this means is a little impossible right now so I'll just pass on Nora's words 'I feel I am in a dream.' Soviet Milk has just been SHORTLISTED for the EBRD Prize, great thanks to all involved and many congratulations to Fitzcarraldo Editions and Tilted Axis Press as well! https://www.ebrd.com/cs/Satellite?c=Content&cid=1395280584218&d=Mobile&pagename=EBRD%2FContent%2FContentLayout

Children of the Cave

Happy #publicationday to Children of the Cave!! 'Poignant and piercing, it is a story for our times' Jackie Law 'Like nothing else I've read' Sarah Terry 'One of the most ambitious works of the year' Kuvastaja Prize Jury 'Though the novel is set two hundred years ago, the fear of the other is still very much alive today.’ Grant Rintoul And £6 for ONE DAY ONLY! https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/deals/children-of-the-cave/

Children of the Cave trailer

Its February tomorrow! Which means that its almost publication month for Peirene No. 28 Children of the Cave!!! It went out to our subscribers in Dec but won't be available until Feb 15th, this prize-winning Gothic Finnish adventure is going to blow you away! https://bit.ly/2Rdahs8

Christmas wishes from Peirene Press!

We finish our #PeireneChristmasCalendar with a little video of some of the translated books we’ve explored along the way! Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Peirene no. 27 And the Wind Sees All is 'a heart-warming gem'

Peirene no. 27 And the Wind Sees All might only have been officially released on Saturday but it has already been featured in The Sunday Times! David Mills described how whilst Peirene normally 'delights in challengingly dark books' - And the Wind Sees All is instead 'a heart-warming gem' of a novel with 'an eye for the poetry of the everyday.' We couldn't have put it better ourselves. Read the rest of the article here and find more translated fiction inspiration: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/review-foreign-fiction-babylon-strike-your-heart-drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead-and-the-wind-sees-all-kvw2khscg If you're not yet a subscriber - who receive our books two months before anyone else (!) - you can buy your copy here: https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/books/and-the-wind-sees-all/

It's Peirene send out day!

We're busy wrapping up these beautiful polkadot copies of Peirene No. 27 And the Wind Sees All ready to be shipped out to all our wonderful subscribers later this week. And the Wind Sees All is our first Icelandic translation. It's the perfect tonic to this ridiculous heatwave that has descended upon us like a Pharoah's curse. I can't wait to hear what you all think of it! If you're not yet a subscriber you can subscribe here to receive Peirene's latest releases months in advance: https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/subscribe/subscribe/

For every book bought whilst Trump visits the Uk, we're giving one to charity!

Donald Trump is currently visiting the UK. So we're taking a stand. For every book bought whilst he's here (from the 13th to the 16th of July) we'll donate one to a charity which sends books to prisoners. A book is a gift of recognition, it opens new pathways for communications and says 'I value you' to the recipient. We believe in diversity, open borders and open hearts. We stand against Trump. #ResistTrump #TrumpUKVisit Buy your books here and help make an active difference to peoples lives: https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/

Shadows on the Tundra released today!

Peirene No. 26 Shadows on the Tundra has now been released for all our non-subscribers! This incredible piece of survival literature was written on scraps of paper and buried in a glass jar underground for nearly 50 years. Written by a young woman on her escape from a Siberian labour camp this book is an incredible testament to survival and the will of the human spirit. Get your copy: https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/books/shadows-on-the-tundra/ Lithuania Lithuanian Commercial Attaché in the United Kingdom

Pre-order Shatila Stories NOW!

Shatila Stories, a novel written by nine Syrian and Palestinian refugees living in a Shatila refugee camp, is now available to pre-order: https://bit.ly/2HBxTTb Get the book Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, called "HEARTBREAKINGLY ALIVE" This isn't a book about the refugee crisis, this is a book from the heart of the refugee crisis. ALL PROFITS will go to support refugees living in nine camps throughout Lebanon and Turkey. Published June 18th for Refugee Week, get your copy: https://bit.ly/2HBxTTb

In celebration of the French Literature Festival grab four French translations for 50% off!

With so many French translations adorning our shelves here at Peirene we're more than a little excited for the Beyond Words French Literature Festival! With less than two weeks to go we're still deciding which events to go to (if only we could drop everything and go to all!) and have decided in celebration to put four of our French translations on sale! Get your Francophile fill for only £6 a book here: https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/ Read more about the festival and start filling your diary here: http://beyondwordslitfest.co.uk/whats-on/

Take Soviet Milk for a test drive!

@DeepBaltic have just published an extract from Soviet Milk! Combined with @LV_Literature's fabulous video, I personally think it makes an excellent introduction to the book. Why not take Soviet Milk for a test ride here: https://bit.ly/2riBcqH

Peirene No. 25 Soviet Milk, the Latvian bestseller, published today!

Its #worldbookday2018 but did we mention its also Peirene No. 25 Soviet Milk PUBLICATION DAY?!?! The Latvian bestseller that took the Baltics by storm has been called: ‘One of the best novels to come out of the Baltic region in recent years […] one of those novels that distills great sweeping cultural and political events into the stories of individuals’ Charlie Connelly, The New European 'In a mere 200 pages, Ikstena captivates and enthralls us.' Olivia Snaije, Bookwitty 'Soviet Milk makes us examine how we are all living in multiple cages, from the emotional ones we create for ourselves to those imposed upon us through family, work, society, the government or country ruling over us.' Louise Norman ‘A soul-baring study of depression, intellectual frustration, motherhood, and life in the Soviet Union.’ Grant Rintoul, 1st Reading GET YOUR COPY HERE: https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/books/soviet-milk/ Latvian Literature Latvian in uk Latvian Institute of International Affairs

Soviet Milk, the Latvian bestseller for the first time in English!

The first copies of Peirene No. 25 Soviet Milk went out to our subscribers over the holidays and we're already receiving rave reviews! It has been described as 'one of the best translated novels I will read in 2018' and 'a soul-bearing study of depression, intellectual frustration, motherhood, and life in the Soviet Union.' Soviet Milk is an intimate and absorbing novel currently only available to subscribers. This Latvian bestseller shouldn't be missed! Subscribe here: https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/

Peirene's 2018 series 'Home in Exile'

We'll be closed from the 22nd of December to the 8th of January but there's still plenty of time to subscribe to our 2018 series. Why not sign up a friend and give them the gift that keeps on giving with three book delivered throughout the year! Read about our 2018 books here: https://www.peirenepress.com/peirene-series/ Subscribe here: https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/

Peirene 2018 series Home in Exile

Introducing our 2018 Peirene series Home in Exile! Subscribe here: https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/ The 2018 series will include three world-class European novellas about finding a sense of belonging when you have been forced to leave your country of birth. Including a Latvian bestseller, survival literature from a Gulag escapee and Peirene's first ever Icelandic translation! Subscribe through our Kickstarter campaign here: http://kck.st/2Aybum0