What a lovely review for a beautiful book!

'The poems and the paintings deepen our appreciation of different views of the same landscape... A very satisfying, genre-defying collection of words and images.'

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To celebrate #IndieBookshopWeek we have produced an exclusive edition Sulaiman Addonia’s The Seers, which will be available only from indie bookshops throughout the UK and Ireland, to coincide with Sulaiman’s UK tour.

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First up, tomorrow evening we're honoured to welcome translator Maureen Shaughnessy to the bookshop to discuss fiction, feminism, and the cost of pursuing the truth, in relation to Charco Press's new title 'Why Did You Come Back Every Summer' by Argentine writer Belén López Peiró

We’ve been casting our minds back to the UK launch of GHOST PAINS by Jessi Jezewska Stevens, a book that has been winning over booksellers, critics & readers. We’re biased, but we’re pretty sure that the Jessi Jezewska Stevens fanbase is the best fanbase. Do tell us your favourite stories.

Huge congratulations to Iman Mersal and her translator, Robin Moger, as her gorgeously digressive, profoundly moving biography of the Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat wins the 2024 #JamesTaitBlack Prize for Biography!
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This is so exciting! If you happen to be in Edinburgh tomorrow evening, you can even pop along to Bruntsfield for a sneaky peek 👀

Over the 🌙 that 💜SPACE CRONE💜 by Ursula K. Le Guin is a top ten finalist for Locus Magazine's Non-Fiction award for 2024, as voted by readers in an open ballot.

Very excited for the presentation ceremony June 22, where fierce feminist SFF writer Connie Willis is the special guest!

Wonderful review over at Asymptote Journal on TIDAL WATERS by Velia Vidal (tr. Annie McDermott). With big thanks to Sarah for the very thoughtful take.

Over the moon that Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright has won the 2024 #JamesTaitBlack Prize for Fiction and Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal (tr. Robin Moger) is a joint winner of the 2024 James Tait Black Prize for Biography! 🎉🎉🎉

Very deserved congratulations to Alexis Wright as her astonishing, monumental novel Praiseworthy wins the 2024 #JamesTaitBlack Fiction Prize! ✨
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This Saturday 18th May Igiaba Scego author of THE COLOUR LINE will be appearing at European Writers' Festival on the Change & Conflict panel 📚

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What the judges said: 'It's a beautifully written, beautifully translated book...' Beyond delighted 'Balam and Lluvia's House' is shortlisted for the CLiPPA Poetry Award 2024. Congratulations to Julio Serrano Echeverría & Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social ~ CLPE Grab your copy: buff.ly/4aGhnyv

🥁Buy ANY book this weekend, 11-12 May for the chance to win a £250 gift card. Every sale supports independent bookshops! uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-25…

For the new issue of Idler I wrote about two mind-expanding novels recently published by prototype and Charles Boyle. Both are really fantastic books, order them from your local independent bookshop!

We're buzzing at The Emma Press: BALAM & LLUVIA'S HOUSE has been *shortlisted* for the 2024 CLiPPA! Huge congratulations Julio Serrano Echeverría & Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social ~ what a dream team! ~ and all the other amazing shortlisted poets CLPE
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Blown away to have not one but TWO titles on the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize longlist! THE REMAINS (by Margo Glantz /tr. Ellen Jones) and OF CATTLE AND MEN (Ana Paula Maia/tr. Zoë Perry ). Congrats to the rest of the longlist, and 🙏 to the @OxfortdCCT team!

This month, Leslie Scase returns! With an assassin on the loose & a group of anarchist plotting to promote unrest, Chard is faced with a new mystery... Can he uncover the killer’s true objective before it’s too late? Pre-order now serenbooks.com/book/flames-of…

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We invited the fabulous Harry Baker to chat about his joyous new poetry collection on Instagram - Wonderful is out next week 📙📚

Booksellers, get your orders in - you don't want to miss this one!

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Today we celebrate @bluebirdtail, longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 24 for his vividly imagined, lusciously written #Azucar . We will be sharing reviews, interviews, readings and even a book giveaway through the day. #JhalakPrize24 #JhalakShowcase