We are delighted to announce that WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS by @oluterry.bsky.social is published today! Available to order on our website www.lesfugitives.com/2026/wildern...

Many congratulations to Harriet Armstrong, who age 25 is the youngest author on the shortlist of this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut novel To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, joining fellow novelists Colwill Brown, Seán Hewitt, Derek Owusu, and poets Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Suzannah V Evans.

Read an extract from WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS (@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social), the forthcoming debut by @oluterry.bsky.social. The novel follows a Creole named Emil, experiencing the whirlwinds of young adulthood in the fictional post-apartheid South African city, Stadmutter. buff.ly/RGTGMhp

Reading in bed with Ginny @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

Booksellers and reviewers, we’ve got 8 advance review copies left of our upcoming title Wilderness of Mirrors which we’d love to send to you this week. Let us know!

Our first - and lead! - title of 2026 will be Olufemi Terry’s fiction debut Wilderness of Mirrors, out March 12. A prescient political novel set in a parallel, contemporary southern part of Africa still reeling from the effects of racial Partition.

Please join us for 3 book events with some of our recent authors next month! www.lesfugitives.com/events

Just received our first stack of the new edition of Harriet Armstrong’s TROMAB with the Dylan Thomas Prize longlist roundel!

We are delighted to announce that Harriet Armstrong’s To Rest Our Minds and Bodies is part of this year’s Swansea University @dylanthomasprize longlist amongst such an inspiring and exciting cohort of young international writers and poets!

Yes I should be reading book already on my shelves, but I'm also trying to order some of the titles that have been sitting on my waitlists. @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social #Seagullbooks

Dec reading. Thanks to @stuhennigan.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @jonathancape.bsky.social @scratchbooks.bsky.social @judecook.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @backlisted.bsky.social @burningshed.com @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

Fionna O’Connor has picked Harriet Armstrong‘s To Rest Our Minds and Bodies as one her best books of 2025 for The Morning Star.

Georgia de Chamberet calls Zombie Proust ‘a clever, thought-provoking essay about how culture preserves the Greats of literature’ in Bookblast. bookblast.org/blog/zombie-...

Read an excerpt from Olufemi Terry’s debut novel Wilderness of Mirrors (out April 2026) in the Johannesburg Review of Books johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/12/15/l...

Join us next week at Bàrd Books in East London to celebrate our ten-year anniversary! www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

Some good cheer to start off your Mondays — @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social's To Rest our Minds & Bodies was a Fiction book of the year in the Guardian this weekend! Huge congratulations to Harriet Armstrong 👏🎉 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Congratulations to Harriet Armstrong as To Rest Our Minds And Bodies - her debut! - was named a Guardian book of the year!

Mark your calendars: offer valid all day on Monday 1 December only, only on the Les Fugitives website. Happy reading!

Last few tickets left for Wednesday's event with Michèle Roberts and Alice Blackhurst on FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO, the follow-up to Roberts's bestseller FRENCH COOKING FOR ONE Grab your tickets here: lrb.me/15c6a6 @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

We were so engrossed in the event last night we forgot to take pictures! These are from Clem. Big thanks to Gareth Evans, Yann and Clem’s co-speaker extraordinaire who chaired the conversation with brio, and injected irresistible humour.

We were shocked and saddened to read that Rachel Cooke had died. She championed Michèle Roberts' work, and her take on French Cooking for One proposed the book to the bestsellers sphere. We remember her exemplary, fearless originality and generous spirit. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Can’t go to this tomorrow night, alas, but it should be excellent. Blackout is one of the books of the year, a sui generis journey into silence, mixing memoir, philosophy & art criticism.

That is sobering news. What on earth do we bother for? competing against Behemoths, when reprinting 3,000 copies of a book reviewed across the whole national press nearly bankrupts us.

Amazing to see both French Cooking for One and French Cooking for Two on the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk bestsellers list!

See you tomorrow in Bath for the Peirene indie book fair!

Thank you for a lovely, thoughtful review of Zombie Proust by Jérôme Prieur (translated by Nancy Kline)!

FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship is out now!

One of my favourite writers in Ireland is Erica Van Horn. I'm delighted to be quoted on the reprint of her book 'We Still Have the Telephone', published by @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

Another excerpt, this time from the Winter section of FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship by Michèle Roberts. In case you missed Michèle last week, join us at Veranda Bookshop this Thursday for the book launch. Get your free ticket here www.ticketsource.co.uk/veranda-books

We’ll be at the @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair in Conway Hall until 7 today!

A great first day at @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair today! Michèle Roberts came by to sign early copies of French Cooking for Two (here pictured with our SPF neighbour Nick Royles of Nightjar Press)

Please join us on 18 November for an event at Reference.Point in London about BLACKOUT with debut author Yann Chateigné Tytelman and his translator @clementoctober.bsky.social in conversation with writer and film curator Gareth Evans. Get your ticket www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

With its plethora of lead titles from the big fives and from big indies alike, October is even more of an uphill struggle than usual for small literary indies like yours truly. Keep bibliodiversity alive and join us at the @smallpublishers.bsky.social Fair this weekend!

UPDATED events calendar. Join us this month and next to discuss our new releases in the UK and Belgium. No OffPrint for us this time around, but an exciting book launch for FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship by Michèle Roberts. www.lesfugitives.com/events

Great, incisive review of Jérôme Prieur’s ‘minimalist yet revelatory’ Zombie Proust (tr. by Nancy Kline) by Thuy Dinh, editor-at-large of Asymptote Journal. Read it in full here www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...

It’s been out of print for over a year but we are so pleased to bring a new lease of life to WE STILL HAVE THE TELEPHONE on the occasion of the focus on Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts' art press Coracle at this year's edition of the Small Publishers’ Fair. www.lesfugitives.com/the-quick-br...

Blackout by Yann Chateigné Tytelman a remarkable little book - a meditation on grief, silences, solitude, the solaces (or otherwise) of art. Taking in Charles Ray’s Ink Box, Celmin’s sea pictures, David Toop, Judy Nylon along the way. It’s another fantastic work from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

In case you missed it, French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Frienship by Michèle Roberts will be out next month! For charming, witty anecdotes and recipes to share with a loved one along the year, you can preorder here www.lesfugitives.com/cookbooks/fr...

Led by Cécile Menon, London-based @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social publishes French authors of literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, trans-genre writing, and English language originals. You can find them at #smallpublishersfair25, Conway Hall, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct smallpublishersfair.co.uk

In the @lrb.co.uk London Review of Books this month. Les Fugitives has been preparing a reprint of Erica Van Horn’s We Still Have the Telephone for this month’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social Small Publishers Fair.

Blackout by Yann Chateigne Tytel translated from the French by Clem Clements out with @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social was launched @verandabookshop A tapestry of beautifully woven words, Blackout is an unusual meditation on the myriad sounds of silence.

Written in fragments, 'Blackout' is a moving exploration of Tytelman's grief for his Father set during the Spring 2020 lockdown in France. It's an atmospheric, ghostly and unmissable read for autumn! OUT NOW from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social buff.ly/RdEpaSl

Great to celebrate the launch of Yann Chateigné Tyltleman’s Blackout at Veranda Books last night, expertly chaired by @clementoctober.bsky.social. Out now from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman (translated by @clementoctober.bsky.social ) is out tomorrow. Join us at Veranda Books for the launch tomorrow (ticketed). You can also order BLACKOUT now from our website www.lesfugitives.com/2025/yann-ch...

Join us in Bath for the Indie Book Fair this November!

Join us at 6.30 at Veranda Bookshop in London on 2 October to celebrate the launch of BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman who will be in conversation with his translator @clementoctober.bsky.social . Get your free tickets here www.ticketsource.co.uk/veranda-books

We received a special delivery at the office today! Our copies of BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, translated from the French by Clem Clement @clementoctober.bsky.social

We look forward to bringing out the UK edition of Olufemi Terry’s debut novel Wilderness of Mirrors in Spring 2026! @bookbrunch.bsky.social

One of my favourite paragraphs from Blackout by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, translated from the French by me, forthcoming from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social on 2 October. Yann's first book in English and my first full-length translation. 🌑

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