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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 9h

We have book fairs, launches and bookshop discussions planned this month and next. Which are you planning to attend? Check our website for more info. www.lesfugitives.com/events

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Desire and Possession: A Review of Jérôme Prieur’s Zombie Proust - Asymptote Blog

Proust saw glittering Parisian dinners and costume balls as “great massacres.” His society models posed for him and were in turn “devoured” by him.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 2d

We’ve ordered a special short print run of 100 copies priced at a bargain - £12.99. They’ll be available in the coming days and at the Fair.

Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 2d

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 2d

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...

Les Fugitives Erica Van Horn We Still Have the Telephone elderly mother New Hampshire nonfiction — Les Fugitives

Assembling fragments of past and present Van Horn describes a life laid out in detail, quietly registering the fuzziness of the line between eccentricity and madness. An undutiful daughter records he...

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 3d

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...

French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Friendship — Les Fugitives

cookery french cookbook michele roberts les fugitives cooking for one cooking for two

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 3d

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
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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 12d

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.

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Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 24d

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Sep 16

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

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Clem Clement @clementoctober.bsky.social · Sep 9

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. 🌑

A paragraph from a book. The text is: The moment in scenes of violence and trauma in certain films when the sound is suddenly cut. The deaf-mute vision of a world whose intensity becomes purely visual, as though emotion had saturated the spectrum of sound, imposing its noise on the noise, rendering it imperceptible, cancelling it out.

Two copies of the book BLACKOUT, by Yann Chateigné Tytelman and published by Les Fugitives, lying on a wooden table. The cover is black. The title and author name, in silver, are encircled by a solar eclipse.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Sep 4

A review of Harriet Armstrong’s To Rest Our Minds and Bodies in this month’s @litreview.bsky.social. @orlandoreade.bsky.social connects the dots and observes the maturity of the work. This is immensely flattering!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Michèle Roberts signing French Cooking for One at Toppings Edinburgh this month.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · Aug 28

@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social + poetry 🤩 = Colour me excited 🤗

Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our first book of poetry comes out tomorrow. a grammar of the world by Jeanne Benameur translated by Bill Johnston. The perfect book for the end of summer and the end of Women in Translation month.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our first book of poetry comes out tomorrow. a grammar of the world by Jeanne Benameur translated by Bill Johnston. The perfect book for the end of summer and the end of Women in Translation month.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 19

Surprise! a grammar of the world, by Jeanne Benameur, translated by Bill Johnston, will be out August 28. For once we've got copies months ahead of our planned pub date. The joys of indie publishing - never a dull moment! A Mediterranean book about the sea and the sun for the end of summer.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 19

What are you reading this Women in Translation month? There is still time to explore our backlist! www.lesfugitives.com/all-books