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🦌We are excited to announce a limited edition of Polly Barton’s debut novel WHAT AM I, A DEER?🦌 This edition is available exclusively through independent bookshops and on our website, with a run of 2,500 copies. Pre-order now:
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What Am I, A Deer? (Author Collection) | Fitzcarraldo Editions
To celebrate the launch of Polly Barton’s What Am I, A Deer?, we are pleased to present the author collection, a series of occasional limited editions. Available exclusively through independent booksh...
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/what-am-i-a-deer-author-collection/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=deerindieexclusive
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Alex
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Just started Janet Frame's The Edge of the Alphabet (
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Kirkdale Bookshop
3 days ago
Thank you to
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for sending a proof of "Twenty Minutes of Silence" by Hélène Bessette (tr. Kate Briggs). Very intriguing as I missed the previous one!
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'It is an almost-love story and an almost-self-love story – one that celebrates drunken karaoke, violent crushes and the transcendent, fleeting joy of believing you finally understand your own life' Zadie Loft reviews WHAT AM I A DEER? for
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Zadie Loft - Sing Your Heart Out
Zadie Loft: Sing Your Heart Out - What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton
https://literaryreview.co.uk/sing-your-heart-out
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Chris Lloyd
7 days ago
New episode of Books Up Close with Sasha Debevec-McKenney, talking about her poem “WHAT AM I AFRAID OF?” from her
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collection Joy is My Middle Name. Listen wherever you get podcasts, and find out more here or IG:
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June Caldwell
6 days ago
Brilliant poetry collection by Matthew Rice from Belfast, published by
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and timestamped from old night shifts in a
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Our Spring reading sale – with 30 per cent off – ends today at 11.59pm GMT on 30 March 🌱 Use the code ‘SPRING30’ at checkout to redeem the discount.
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Polly Barton signing and numbering the limited edition of her debut novel WHAT AM I, A DEER? 🦌 Available exclusively through independent bookshops and on our website, with a run of 2,500 copies:
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Jeremy Millar
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Ooh, look:
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day coincides with the start of the
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spring sale and the end of the Toast end-of-winter sale. (I’ve bought some knitwear; going to buy some books.)
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Bert’s Books
15 days ago
This is just beautiful. Simple, but beautiful. Sally, Pedro and I have all bought one each.
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Ángel Gurría-Quintana
14 days ago
Dorothy Tse’s CITY LIKE WATER, beautifully translated by Natascha Bruce, shows how easily the language of dreams can become the language of nightmares. My review in today’s
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#HongKong
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City Like Water — drowning in oppression
A family is caught in a political sea of deception in this dystopian novella by Hong Kong author Dorothy Tse
https://www.ft.com/content/49cd96e8-119a-4bc1-88ef-44f0fa48d8a0
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Big Green Books
13 days ago
"What Am I, A Deer?" by Polly Barton. The first of
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incredible "author collections". Available exclusively through independent bookshops, these SIGNED & numbered editions also have Klein blue sprayed edges Order here.
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Voce Books
16 days ago
🗣️ SPRING/SUMMER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 We are thrilled to welcome Swedish-Kurdish author BALSAM KARAM back to Voce Books to discuss her newly translated
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book EVENT HORIZON. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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We are delighted that JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME by Sasha Debevec-McKenney has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize:
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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The India Forum
18 days ago
"The enduring schisms of race, gender, class, and caste in Mauritius echo parallel narratives in India." Vedita Cowaloosur reviews Ariel Saramandi's 'Portrait of an Island on Fire' published by
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Of Portraits, Mirrors, and Windows
Chronicling Mauritius from its volcanic origin to the present, by blending the personal, historical, and political, the essays in this book examines slavery, indentured labour, and colonisation. The e...
https://www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews/portraits-mirrors-and-windows
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We are thrilled that BIG KISS, BYE-BYE by Claire-Louise Bennett has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction:
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The James Tait Black Prizes
Established in 1919, The James Tait Black Prizes are Britain's oldest literary awards.
https://james-tait-black.ed.ac.uk/
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🥈72 dogs 🐝
about 1 month ago
Real good lookin’ book
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LRB Bookshop
19 days ago
This week's bestsellers! Head to our website to find out more:
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Tom Bowden
25 days ago
Ever since Ash before Oak, I’ve learned to read everything by Jeremy Cooper that
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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷
26 days ago
‘What is the task of the intellectual at a time when, at the heart of liberal democracies, genocide is normalized and protest suppressed?’ Support independent publishing. Bravo
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We need you now.
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Edward Said and the Task of the Intellectual Today | Los Angeles Review of Books
What does a new edition of Edward Said’s classic ‘Representations of the Intellectual’ reveal in the context of the crisis in Gaza?
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/edward-said-representations-intellectual-gaza-crisis-israel-fitzcarraldo
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Tommy van Avermaete
28 days ago
This is the best book I’ve read in many months. It is simultaneously deeply human, sharp, analytically and emotionally intelligent. I don’t want the book to end. Ever.
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Seán Costello
26 days ago
“Satie and Picabia . . . leap up and down in what might be some kind of ritual exorcism to dispel the spirit of gravity.” Enjoying Ian Penman’s playful Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite
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Liam Bishop
29 days ago
‘This was how to better understand language, to develop a violet crush on somebody.’ Polly Barton’s new book from
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is out next month. Her oeuvre is really shaping up. Exposure of ourselves through language, our bodies, and desire
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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷
about 1 month ago
‘the Greyhound is a moving space inhabited largely by those who cannot afford alternatives…’ Just a few of the words composing a passionately comprehensive review.
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Greyhound – Joanna Pocock
Joanna Pocock’s ‘Greyhound’ is a wonderful work of hybrid literature that artfully combines memoir, travel writing, reportage, and social commentary seen through the prism of her Greyhound bus journey...
https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/greyhound-joanna-pocock/
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Matthew Francis
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Book 19: Maria Stepanova's The Disappearing Act (from
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Katie da Cunha Lewin
about 1 month ago
'I was not a bad man. Nowhere near it. But they said I was anyway.' SO enjoying this from Makenna Goodman
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Charlotte Mandell
about 1 month ago
Here's a clip of me reading from my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS, from
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and New Directions, recently longlisted for the
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, for Translators Aloud
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Charlotte Mandell reads from Mathias Énard’s THE DESERTERS (Fitzcarraldo/New Directions, 2025)
YouTube video by Translators Aloud
https://youtu.be/qSxnBV4aMh4?si=ILpeB5FvsPACnOpD
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Stray Bullets Podcast
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Sasha Dugdale
about 1 month ago
Publication day for
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edition of The Disappearing Act, a beautiful reflection on grief and identity in a time of conflict by Maria Stepanova.
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Charlotte Mandell
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Translating THE MELANCHOLY OF BORDERS by Mathias Énard
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We are thrilled that THE DESERTERS by Mathias Enard, tr.
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, is on the International Booker longlist! Congratulations to all longlisted authors, translators and publishers:
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
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Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist
Thirteen books make this year’s longlist for translated fiction, which awards a first prize of £50,000
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/24/ravn-kehlmann-genberg-enard-and-cabezon-camara-longlist-international-booker-prize
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And you can read more about THE FLOATING WORLD here:
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You can read more about GOLDEN CRUMBS by Mary Ruefle in the Bookseller, announced today:
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Announcing our Autumn 2026 Catalogue:
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Charlotte Mandell
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So many thanks to the judges of the International Booker Prize for longlisting my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS, published by
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in the UK and New Directions in the US. 🙏
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
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Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist
Thirteen books make this year’s longlist for translated fiction, which awards a first prize of £50,000
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/24/ravn-kehlmann-genberg-enard-and-cabezon-camara-longlist-international-booker-prize
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We are thrilled that THE DESERTERS by Mathias Enard, tr.
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, is on the International Booker longlist! Congratulations to all longlisted authors, translators and publishers:
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
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Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist
Thirteen books make this year’s longlist for translated fiction, which awards a first prize of £50,000
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/24/ravn-kehlmann-genberg-enard-and-cabezon-camara-longlist-international-booker-prize
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Stray Bullets Podcast
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I’ve finished my scribblings in respect of Matthew Rice’s ‘Plastic’. Posted on relevant intranet site full of bookish folk.
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Stray Bullets Podcast
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Fantastic representation of work floor thoughts, wanderings and the rawness of lives in passing. Working on a review of Plastic, then on to O’Farrell’s Land 🫡
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Joanna Pocock
about 1 month ago
This really is another exquisite book from
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— It’s both life in miniature and hugely expansive. “But there’s no preservation without possession”… so many beautiful, thought provoking passages in its pages.
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Dave C
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2021 #29 Two brothers living in the sprawl of an unnamed British city in a troubled time not far from our own set out in search of a different life. An excellent coming-of-age story and debut novel brought to us by
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. A bit more in the alt text as usual. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚
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Andrew Kelly
about 1 month ago
Just arrived from
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Kirkdale Bookshop
about 1 month ago
Here Anthony Cummins reviews JEremy Cooper's new book "Discord"
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, adding to the mystery rather than attempting to solve it. An admirable approach.
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Jeremy Cooper’s Discord is a perfectly pitched comedy
An awkward middle-aged composer teams up with a hotshot saxophonist in an exquisite odd-couple novel
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/jeremy-coopers-discord-is-a-perfectly-pitched-comedy
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Sasha Dugdale
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‘My own personal choice is to continue writing – simply because that is the only thing I can do to counterbalance the distortion. Someone has to use Russian as a language of love’ - Maria Stepanova on Disappearing Act
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Q&A with Maria Stepanova about "The Disappearing Act"
We’re eagerly awaiting the publication next week of The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale. Today we’re sharing a special pre-release interview with Maria Stepanova, one ...
https://shop.pushkinhouse.org/blogs/bookshop-newsletter-interviews/q-a-with-maria-stepanova-about-the-disappearing-act
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‘It is five years since I was exiled. My own erasure must be underway. Though for a long time I resisted settling in the US, I now live in New York.’ Carlos Manuel Álvarez on exile, translated by Will Noah, in
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The Thing We Call Exile • EQUATOR
A Cuban writer contemplates his new life in America, as Washington puts the island under siege once again
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Anna Aslanyan
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My review of Maria Stepanova's novel, translated by Sasha Dugdale and published by
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The New Yorker
about 1 month ago
The New Yorker has won two Polk Awards: the staff writer Jon Lee Anderson is honored for chronicling Congo’s devastating war, and Andy Kroll is recognized for his profile of the Trump official Russell Vought, published in partnership with
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The New Yorker Wins Two Polk Awards for 2025 Reporting
The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson is honored for chronicling Congo’s devastating war, while Andy Kroll is recognized for a profile of the Trump official Russell Vought.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-new-yorker-wins-two-polk-awards-for-2025-reporting
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JacquiWine
about 2 months ago
New on the blog today, I've written about THE EMPUSIUM by Olga Tokarczuk (tr Antonia Lloyd-Jones). I loved this wonderfully sly health resort horror story in which the true horrors are the misogynistic views of men, entrenched in early 20th-century society.
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The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Inspired by Thomas Mann’s 1924 novel The Magic Mountain, which explores various philosophical ideas and the nature of European society in the run-up to the First World War, The Empusium is Olga Tok…
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/the-empusium-by-olga-tokarczuk-tr-antonia-lloyd-jones/
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