Fionn Petch
@elusiveword.bsky.social
Ootlin. Scotland→Mexico City→Berlin.
Translator. Senior editor @charcopress
elusiveword.com
Translator. Senior editor @charcopress
elusiveword.com
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The National Telepathy Roque Larraquy Review
The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, skilfully translated by Frank Wynne, is an extraordinary, disturbing, metaphoric read. A satire of scientific racism; a critique of colonialism and its mindset, the novel questions to what extent so-called…
The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, skilfully translated by Frank Wynne, is an extraordinary, disturbing, metaphoric read. A satire of scientific racism; a critique of colonialism and its mindset, the novel questions to what extent so-called…
The National Telepathy Roque Larraquy Review
The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, skilfully translated by Frank Wynne, is an extraordinary, disturbing, metaphoric read. A satire of scientific racism; a critique of colonialism and its mindset, the novel questions to what extent so-called modern civilisation is founded on violence, racism and warping or erasing memory.
bookblast.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The National Telepathy Roque Larraquy Review
The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, skilfully translated by Frank Wynne, is an extraordinary, disturbing, metaphoric read. A satire of scientific racism; a critique of colonialism and its mindset, the novel questions to what extent so-called…
The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, skilfully translated by Frank Wynne, is an extraordinary, disturbing, metaphoric read. A satire of scientific racism; a critique of colonialism and its mindset, the novel questions to what extent so-called…
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ANNOUNCING: PUBLISHER NOT FOUND - our final book and the 404 Ink Bursary, coming 2026.
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
404 Ink co-founders launch new book and industry fundraiser for small presses — 404 Ink
404 Ink to publish one final book as part of small press fundraiser, launching in 2026.
www.404ink.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
ANNOUNCING: PUBLISHER NOT FOUND - our final book and the 404 Ink Bursary, coming 2026.
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
4-2! TOTAL SCENES!
Wow! ⚽ SCO-DEN
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
4-2! TOTAL SCENES!
Translated by yours truly ⚽🏃
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Translated by yours truly ⚽🏃
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A Charco Press subscription was definitely the best thing I did to treat myself this year. Consistently excellent contemporary Latin American literature arriving at random intervals through the year - a joy, and I have already signed up again!
It's here. Our 2026 Bundle.
Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A Charco Press subscription was definitely the best thing I did to treat myself this year. Consistently excellent contemporary Latin American literature arriving at random intervals through the year - a joy, and I have already signed up again!
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup.
CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). New work from the author of Elena Knows! Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go...
Subscribe now: charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). New work from the author of Elena Knows! Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go...
Subscribe now: charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Our 2026 Bundle lineup.
CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). New work from the author of Elena Knows! Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go...
Subscribe now: charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). New work from the author of Elena Knows! Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go...
Subscribe now: charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
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It's here. Our 2026 Bundle.
Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It's here. Our 2026 Bundle.
Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
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My artworks, like my thoughts, have become overgrown
May 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My artworks, like my thoughts, have become overgrown
Happening now. Loving the insights from @alecfinlay.bsky.social, Patrick Eyres and Tim Richardson into the artist who has meant the most to me since I was a lad, Ian Hamilton Finlay, on his 100th birthday.
gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-...
gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-...
October 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Happening now. Loving the insights from @alecfinlay.bsky.social, Patrick Eyres and Tim Richardson into the artist who has meant the most to me since I was a lad, Ian Hamilton Finlay, on his 100th birthday.
gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-...
gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-...
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We're having an Autumn Sale! 30% off ALL print and ebook editions*, until midnight Friday 31st October (GMT). A great chance to stack up that TBR pile, or introduce friends and family to Charco! charcopress.com/bookstore
(*Excludes preorder titles, bundles and tote bags.)
(*Excludes preorder titles, bundles and tote bags.)
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
We're having an Autumn Sale! 30% off ALL print and ebook editions*, until midnight Friday 31st October (GMT). A great chance to stack up that TBR pile, or introduce friends and family to Charco! charcopress.com/bookstore
(*Excludes preorder titles, bundles and tote bags.)
(*Excludes preorder titles, bundles and tote bags.)
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Out today - this beautiful, thoughtful journey into the effects of guilt and trauma on the human psyche, set in post WW2 Switzerland. Haunting prose by Antônio Xerxenesky, in a superb translation by Daniel Hahn.
Available now direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore/an...
Available now direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore/an...
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Out today - this beautiful, thoughtful journey into the effects of guilt and trauma on the human psyche, set in post WW2 Switzerland. Haunting prose by Antônio Xerxenesky, in a superb translation by Daniel Hahn.
Available now direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore/an...
Available now direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore/an...
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early galleys of the collaborative dystopian utopian puerto rican speculative fiction novel of your dreams (with a cat historian) are here
October 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
early galleys of the collaborative dystopian utopian puerto rican speculative fiction novel of your dreams (with a cat historian) are here
Not gonna make it to Whitby www.ticketswap.com/listing/tomo...
Tomorrow's Ghosts Festival Friday Ticket
TicketSwap is the safest place to buy and sell tickets. A simple and fair-priced marketplace for fans to buy and sell tickets for events, concerts, festivals, etc.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Not gonna make it to Whitby www.ticketswap.com/listing/tomo...
Awfully tempted to leave this typo in… 😱♥️
#amediting
#amediting
October 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Awfully tempted to leave this typo in… 😱♥️
#amediting
#amediting
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"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon"
LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com
LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com
La Lucha ed. Carolina Orloff: Book Review – The Skinny
Charco Press's latest is an incredible collection of essays destabilising traditions of Western feminism through transformative radical ideas.
www.theskinny.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon"
LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com
LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com
Look what was waiting for me in Scotland… @alinaetc.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Look what was waiting for me in Scotland… @alinaetc.bsky.social
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Our own @elusiveword.bsky.social will be talking to Velia Vidal this weekend at Berlin's International Lit Festival! She will discuss her autofictional text and her work for a literary festival in Chocó, a region of tropical forests in northwestern Colombia.
literaturfestival.com/en/events/ve...
literaturfestival.com/en/events/ve...
VELIA VIDAL: Tidal Waters | international literature festival berlin
A woman named Velia writes letters about returning to her homeland, Chocó – blurring the line between author and character. Vidal writes about the impact of community, the power of storytelling, and w...
literaturfestival.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Our own @elusiveword.bsky.social will be talking to Velia Vidal this weekend at Berlin's International Lit Festival! She will discuss her autofictional text and her work for a literary festival in Chocó, a region of tropical forests in northwestern Colombia.
literaturfestival.com/en/events/ve...
literaturfestival.com/en/events/ve...
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"A powerful book that manages something I’ve never really read before. I was entranced,” Mark Haber. If you are lucky to be in Edinburgh, Lucía Lijtmaer will be appearing today along Monika Radojevic at the EIBF. Do you want to be entranced? Read CAUTERY.
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Lucía Lijtmaer & Monika Radojevic: Fuelled by Rage
From Wed 20 Aug - Sharp writing and incisive perspectives are the hallmarks of Lucía Lijtmaer (Cautery) and Monika Radojevic (A Beautiful Lack of Consequence). Join them for a vital conversation about...
www.edbookfest.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"A powerful book that manages something I’ve never really read before. I was entranced,” Mark Haber. If you are lucky to be in Edinburgh, Lucía Lijtmaer will be appearing today along Monika Radojevic at the EIBF. Do you want to be entranced? Read CAUTERY.
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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This novel and its translation blew my mind. My review will be out later this month (hopefully), too, but honestly don’t bother with what I have to say, just buy it.
Out later this month is Ave Barrera's RESTORATION, translated by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers, a contemporary fairy tale about photography, feminism, bad men, and old houses.
charcopress.com/bookstore/re...
charcopress.com/bookstore/re...
Restoration (Preorder) — Charco Press
Ave Barrera Translated by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers Propelled by female desire, shaped by the violence of the male gaze, and inspired by the endless vitality of old stories remade ane...
charcopress.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This novel and its translation blew my mind. My review will be out later this month (hopefully), too, but honestly don’t bother with what I have to say, just buy it.
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‘The politics of access to Gaza has helped sustain Western complicity in the genocide, despite the steady stream of evidence produced by Palestinians at enormous risk to their own lives. What it amounts to isn’t denial so much as plausible deniability.’
From the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
From the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Stefan Tarnowski | Plausible Deniability
From the sieges within the siege, Palestinian journalists are smeared as terrorists and assassinated by airstrike. Even...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
‘The politics of access to Gaza has helped sustain Western complicity in the genocide, despite the steady stream of evidence produced by Palestinians at enormous risk to their own lives. What it amounts to isn’t denial so much as plausible deniability.’
From the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
From the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Wise words...
When in doubt, I’d always choose a Charco Press book over a Fitzcarraldo, for example.
August 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Wise words...
"The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable... History will judge not just those who committed these crimes, but those who stood by and watched."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard
A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
"The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable... History will judge not just those who committed these crimes, but those who stood by and watched."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘Like Trudi Warner, Rev. Parfitt has been arrested for holding a sign. Can that be understood by any but the most authoritarian of rubrics as an act of terrorism?’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
‘Like Trudi Warner, Rev. Parfitt has been arrested for holding a sign. Can that be understood by any but the most authoritarian of rubrics as an act of terrorism?’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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