Award winning author Pete Kalu returns with a kaleidoscopic memoir that explodes with life in 250 errant mini-essays. Act Normal: Joy and Despair in Postcolonial Britain publishes October 23rd. Celebrate with us🎈 Tickets: houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/author... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

Join us this Thursday in Leeds at Next Chapter Books to celebrate the latest novel by @amandasmythstories.bsky.social and the upcoming collection by @emilyzmarshall.bsky.social. Tickets and information here: www.nextchapterleeds.co.uk/events/p/pee... Can't wait to see you there! 🥰💙

Very pleased to read this powerful piece by @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Loved The Inheritance @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social Donal Ryan vibes. Marlo inherits a cottage in rural Ireland, falls in love with Kitty whose son has links with a boy from the Battle of Kinsale. Great chrs & fabulous writing. #bookpost

Come with us across London’s bookshops to search for PEN Translates books in the wild – part 2! All of our PEN Translates award-winning titles are recognisable by the ‘winner English PEN award’ roundel on their front covers. Look out for it next time you’re browsing your local bookshop!

With the Lionesses through to the #Euro2025 final we can't think of a better week to celebrate the publication of Manisha Tailors's new book Women: The Heartbeat of Sport. Explore the YA must-read here: hoperoadpublishing.com/books/women-...

Look at You is a powerful novel that follows its young narrator as she grows up between Trinidad, England, and Ireland. “A beautiful, moving, and cleverly structured collage of a novel.” — Neel Mukherjee “A remarkable novel.” — Monique Roffey More info: www.peepaltreepress.com/books/look-a...

We have just signed two amazing new poetry books for 2026! These are returning members of the Peepal Tree family, so we know you'll all be pleased to see their latest work: * Riddled by Tanya Shirley * Before the Rain by Christine Craig

Coming 25 September 2025: The House in Bacolet by David Lambert Hugh and Julia want to ‘get involved’ in the life of their new island home in Tobago — little suspecting how much the past horrors of slavery, and their best intentions, will impact their lives. www.peepaltreepress.com/books/house-...

Join Cauvery Madhavan, author of The Inheritance, this Saturday at #BantryBookshop as part of West Cork Literary Festival - info on the free event below. 🍀📗 @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social

Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson is Dua Lipa's Monthly Read for July for the Service95 Book Club. Watch the interview below🔗 and find Vincent's reading list and playlist at the Service95 website. open.spotify.com/episode/070Y...

We love this novel by our West Cork neighbour @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social. Cauvery will be chatting about The Inheritance in #BantryBookshop on Sat 12 July at 11.30am as part of WCLF. #FreeEvent @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social www.rte.ie/culture/2024...

#WIN 1 of 3 copies of Paro by Namita Gokhale www.tripfiction.com/giveaway-3-c... 1970s #Mumbai #delhi Ends 12 July. UK only @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social

#Bookreview: Paro by Namita Gokhale, short novel set in 1970s/80s #INDIA (Bombay/Delhi) TripFction: www.tripfiction.com/review/lead-... Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DKhDyc9Nkgh/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TripFiction.... Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social

Paro: Dreams of Passion publishes tomorrow. Discover Namita Gokhale's "serio-comic début novel of lust, lucre, sex and suicide" here hoperoadpublishing.com/books/paro-d... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

Congratulations to Claire Storey, translator of The Darkness of Colours by Martín Blasco - winner of the 2025 #GLLITranslatedYABookPrize! Claire is our former blog co-editor and is a tireless champion of translated YA/kid lit! Congratulations to the author and to @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social too!

The 2025 GLLI Translated Young Adult Book Prize goes to “engaging and often unsettling” The Darkness of Colours by Martín Blasco, translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Claire Storey, published by @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social. glli-us.org/2025/04/17/2... #PublishingIndustryNews #YA

Enjoying this on a sunny day in Leeds! @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social

HUGE congrats to Claire Storey for winning the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative's 2025 Translated YA Book Prize, for her translation of Martín Blasco's THE DARKNESS OF COLOURS (@hoperoadpublish.bsky.social). Here's a reading from the book by the translator herself! youtu.be/wWMhPh_Lcr8?...

The 2025 International Booker shortlist has been announced 👇

🎉 Big news here at INPRESS HQ! We’re beyond proud to share that Heart Lamp, A Leopard-Skin Hat, and Small Boat from @hoperoadpublishing have made the International Booker Prize shortlist! 🌍📚 Reach out to your local rep, or place your order via [email protected] 🧡

We're thrilled to announce that Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson, has been shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2025. Explore Small Boat here: www.hoperoadpublishing.com/books/small-...

From small boats to big birds, here's everything you need to know about the #InternationalBooker2025 shortlist. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 shortlist. Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025

'Small Boat is the type of book that burns into your consciousness.' Thank you @bobsphere.bsky.social for this thoughtful reading of Small Boat. Read the full review here: thebobsphere.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/v... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

Here’s what I read in March feat @thebookerprizes.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @serpents-tail.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

We will miss you terribly Alex but will remember those very early days 🧡

Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, trans. by Helen Stevenson publishes today. Explore the International Booker longlisted book here: hoperoadpublishing.com

A stark and moving fictionalisation of a 2021 migrant boat disaster. Mostly narrated by the coastguard who failed to send rescue; she represents us all. Let us question our indifference and complicity in these tragedies. Memorable. From @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social #bookerprize #books 💙📚🖋️

12 days to go. 🔗 hoperoadpublishing.com

I'm SO looking forward to #WorldBookDay 2025! I'll be visiting Robert Clack School on this special day to talk to Year 8 about the joys of reading, writing, publishing and my books, #29Locks, #21Miles and (coming soon!) #OnTheEdge😍

Reading some new books in the sun and in, dare I say it, spring like weather 👀Amanda Smyth - LOOK AT YOU 🚤Vincent Delecroix (tr. Helen Stevenson) - SMALL BOAT @peepaltreepress.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social

'A gut punch of a novel' –International Booker Judges Small Boat is available to pre-order now: www.hoperoadpublishing.com

Small Boat, written by Vincent Delecroix and translated by Helen Stevenson, tells the story of an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK, which capsizes in the Channel. Find out more about the #InternationalBooker2025-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Thrilled that 3 #PENTranslates titles – Reservoir Bitches, Small Boat, and Heart Lamp, also a #PENPresents winner – feature on the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. Congrats Scribe, @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social, @andotherstories.bsky.social, Dahlia, Julia, Heather, Vincent, Helen, Banu, Deepa, all!

12 out of 13 books on this year's #InternationalBooker2025 longlist are published by indie presses 🙌 #indypublishing #independentpublishers #books #amreading

Huge congratulations to all on this list! We're particularly delighted to see books from @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social, @andotherstories.bsky.social, and Lolli Editions chosen for the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.

So delighted for hoperoad publishing. Small Boat is on the Longlist for the International booker prize. Well deserved! Please please read this brilliant important and devastating book! @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce that Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson, has been long-listed for The International Booker Prize 2025. Explore Small Boat here: hoperoadpublishing.com

Hello! We have joined @peepaltreepress.bsky.social in the move over to Bluesky. Here's a sneak peek at our next four titles for all our friends over on this site! Small Boat is publishing April 23rd. Pre-order it here: www.hoperoadpublishing.com @inpressbooks.bsky.social | @englishpen.bsky.social