Yet more reasons to support indie presses, who are critical to a thriving literary ecosystem in the face of ever-increasing corporate consolidation. In my experience, indies are much more willing to publish work that doesn’t necessarily fit in with prevailing commercial trends.

It’s National Public Libraries Open Day. Visit your library and find a new reading adventure

An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help. open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/w... (This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)

What Remains, our forthcoming title in translation, publishes in just one week! Check out the beautiful finished product, which we were delighted to receive from the printers earlier this month.

Here's everything you need to know about the six remarkable books on the shortlist and the stories behind them. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

📣 It's Booker Prize 2025 shortlist day!!! A reminder to join our livestream from 7:30pm BST / 2:30pm EDT / 12am IST using this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6VO...

Estaremos por Dublín presentando a tradución de Ninguén queda. Vinde!!

Join us on Thursday, 9 October for the launch of our latest title in translation, What Remains, @booksupstairs.bsky.social at 6:00 pm. With introductions from Catherine Barbour, and readings in Galician and English by award-winning Galician author Brais Lamela, and his translator Jacob Rogers.

Join us on Thursday 6 November for the launch of THIS IS NOT A COOKBOOK as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Featuring readings, conversation, sale of artwork, and nibbles to savour from the author’s own recipes.... This is one you don't want to miss: dublinbookfestival.com/event/this-i...

Mark your calendars! The Irish Centre for Galician Studies at University College Cork warmly welcomes you to What Remains in Translation, an event with author Brais Lamela and translator Jacob Rogers, chaired by Martín Veiga.

A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?

Voting closes tonight for the An Post Bookshop of the Year 2025 Award. Make sure to cast your vote for your local bookshop before midnight! #IndiePublishing #IndieBookShop #Booksellers #BookSky #LiteraryFiction #LiteratureInTranslation

Join us on Thursday 2 October at 6.30pm for the launch of a new podcast: 'In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland', which centres the experiences of 'mixed-race' people who grew up in Irish care institutions. More info, and registration here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-the-hal...

We have it as a contract point that translations of my work have to be performed by actual humans, I think actual human readers deserve to have actual humans translating and making the works as excellent as they can be regardless of language

Come along next month to celebrate the launch of What Remains, our latest title in translation. We are hitting the road with author Brais Lamela and translator Jacob Rogers, and we are Cork and Dublin bound!

Free, all very welcome: booking advisable via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confluence... Tickets still available!

Tá mé ag teacht amach as pluais an taighde faoi dheireadh! Más mac léinn nó oibrí thú i gColáiste Ollscoile Baile Átha Cliath... nó má bhíonn tú thart faoin chathair... cuirfear fáilte romhat ag BAIRD IMRAM AR CHAMPAS, 11.30rn, Dé Máirt 23ú Meán Fómhair, sa Trapdoor ar an champas.

As the Nov/Dec iteration of my new course Writing Experimental Memoir got booked up in a couple of days, I’m going to repeat it in Feb! 3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom £120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words 📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com

We got in more board and picture books in Ukrainian - Axel Scheffler's Pip & Posy plus some of his fairy tales like The Three Little Pigs. Also...>>

Happy publication week to this gem of a book, INJURY TIME by KEVIN SMITH 🍷🎉 Injury Time is the poignant, acerbic and at times hilarious story of Fenton Conville; businessman, upper-class, lapsed-Protestant. He coasts through life with his mates and his money in a sleepy village at the edge of-

Join Bullaun Press as we launch our next title in translation, What Remains by Brais Lamela, translated by Jacob Rogers, in Cork and Dublin next month.

📚 Back to School with @tclctdublin.bsky.social 📚 We’re excited to kick off this school year with not one, but two of our titles featured in the upcoming Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation Book Club lineup! 🎉

Just one month to go until What Remains publication day !

La Martinique, son pays de naissance, s’est souvenue de Frantz Fanon, né il y a cent ans, le 20 juillet 1925. Merci au Cercle Fanon d’avoir organisé ce vivifiant Colloque international autour des « Damnés de la terre ». Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant : Martinique, éveilleuse du monde.

Excerpt from award-winning debut novel What Remains by Brais Lamela, tr. Jacob Rogers, publishing 2 October 2025.

Amidst other reading, I've started these two: Sister in Arms by Shida Bazyar, translated by Ruth Martin (published by @scribepub.bsky.social). And The Rarest Fruit, by Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert (published by @bullaunpress.bsky.social). #WIT

August means #WomenInTranslationMonth, a time to celebrate the women authors and translators changing the way we read the world. We’ve been reflecting on one of the highlights of 2025, when Forgottenness by Tanja Maljartschuk, tr. Zenia Tompkins, was named a finalist for the EBRD Literature Prize.

It’s #womenintranslationmonth – here are some fab books that you need on your shelves… indiepressnetwork.com/women-in-tra...

Sending out the last ARCs soon - only 9 weeks until What Remains hits the shelves! Available for pre-order now via our website.

New #bookmail: ✨What Remains✨ by Brais Lamela, tr. Jacob Rogers Set between the 1950s and the present, between Galicia and New York, and described as 'a meditation on the ruins of memory and an urgent exploration of identity, colonialism, and resistance' Thanks @bullaunpress.bsky.social! #bookSky

We're big Jacob Rogers fans! wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

We're thrilled to introduce Jacob Rogers, the brilliant translator behind our next book What Remains. Translating from Galician and Spanish, Rogers has championed Galician literature through curated features for publications such as Asymptote and @wwborders.bsky.social borders.bsky.social

We are delighted to share the beautiful cover of our next title in translation, courtesy of @hitoneie.bsky.social. What Remains is Brais Lamela's debut novel, translated from the original Galician by Jacob Rogers.

We were delighted to see Forgottenness by Tanja Maljartschuk (tr. Zenia Tompkins) feature as one of three finalists for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025 at the public ceremony in London a couple of weeks ago. (1/3)

Introducing the author of our next title in translation: Brais Lamela. @braislamela.bsky.social

Today!

#BookoftheWeek There’s a Monster Behind the Door by @gaellebelem.bsky.social, trans. Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @bullaunpress.bsky.social This darkly comic, coming-of-age tale set in 1980s La Réunion was Longlisted for the International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social 2025.

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks launching our latest title from Gaëlle Bélem at International Literature Festival Dublin and attending two exciting awards ceremonies in London so we thought we might share a few of our highlights.

Seán Farrell tells us about his book, Frogs for Watchdogs, and the language he would love to see it translated into. In Blúiríní (Irish for snippets), we meet the writer in a place of inspiration or in a space they feel at home. @newislandbooks.bsky.social

Seán also tells us about a recent book he loved: To Avenge a Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan @lilliputpress.bsky.social Video: Freddie Greenall Music: Natalia Beylis @sunkenhum.bsky.social Blúiríní was made possible thanks to the support of The Arts Council

We are excited to announce the shortlist for the Prix de Traduction Centre Culturel Irlandais- Literature Ireland 2025

Short post about the excellent second novel by Gaëlle Bélem, the work of @bullaunpress.bsky.social and translators Karen Fleetwood and @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social, and the pleasure of following her first novel's deserved journey to prize success: publishinginfrastructures.org/2025/05/12/g...

Delighted to announce the spring #showcase series - calling #booksellers, #reviewers, readers, #journalists - join our network of 77 small presses as they present their hottest titles of the season… www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indie-pres...

The Dublin Small Press Fair (2025) is now open to applications from publishers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, experimental literature, literary journals, artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, broadsides, and more! dublinsmallpressfair.com

Have you picked up your copy yet? Check out the latest reviews for The Rarest Fruit by Gaëlle Bélem (tr. Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert): litechoes.com/the-rarest-f... ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/04/29/b... Out now on our website & in bookshops!

Yesterday marked the official release of The Rarest Fruit! Out now - online & in shops - this novel comes from the award-winning author & translator team behind There's a Monster Behind the Door, plunging us once more into the resonant history of Reunion Island. bullaunpress.com/books/the-ra...

We are delighted to share that Forgottenness by Tanja Maljartschuk (tr. Zenia Tompkins) has been named as a finalist for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025. Winner to be announced on 24 June in London - details to follow! @ebrd.bsky.social

Woohoo! Congratulations Tanja Maljartschuk and Zenia Tompkins

Love literature in translation? Support indie publishing & treat yourself to our 2025 subscription! bullaunpress.com/books/2025-s... (1/3)