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❄️WINTER READING SALE ❄️

We’re running a winter sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. GMT on 19 December, with a 30 per cent discount across our website, including Fiction, Essay, Classics and Poetry titles, subscriptions, collections and tote bags.
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'Perhaps poetry is the only kind of uselessness we require. We might call it futile, if only we had something better to do with beauty.' Jonathan Elmer on MODERN POETRY by Diane Seuss for @publicbooks.bsky.social: www.publicbooks.org/two-ways-of-...
Two Ways of Disliking Poetry - Public Books
When I was fourteen, a friend invited me to stay a week with his family on the Outer Banks. What I remember most vividly about that week is a book.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🎉🎉 We are thrilled to discover that PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico, tr. Sophie Hughes, is @foylesforbooks.bsky.social's Fiction Book of the Year! 🎉

Discover more: www.foyles.co.uk/highlights/f...
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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We're looking forward to reading MY REAL NAME IS ELISABETH from Fitzcarraldo in 2027! Bluesky friends: What books in translation are you most excited to read right now?
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We are thrilled to be publishing Adèle Yon’s MY REAL NAME IS ELISABETH, translated by Alice Yang. Read more about the acquisition here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/11/fitz...
Fitzcarraldo Editions to publish Adèle Yon’s MY REAL NAME IS ELISABETH, translated by Alice Yang | Fitzcarraldo Editions
Fitzcarraldo Editions has acquired Adèle Yon’s uncategorizable debut, My Real Name Is Elisabeth, about the author’s great-grandmother who was forcibly institutionalized and eventually lobotomized. A l...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I was gripped by Grey Hound’s spare yet haunting prose. Pocock cast a shadow of longing and loss so visceral I held my breath. Ultimately a quiet ache lingered long after the final page.
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
'Thea Lenarduzzi’s THE TOWER is a strange, engrossing literary hall of mirrors...' Annie Hayter reviews THE TOWER for @bigissue.com: www.bigissue.com/culture/book...
The Tower by Thea Lenarduzzi review – a strange, engrossing literary hall of mirrors
The Tower by Thea Lenarduzzi courageously observes the impact of illness and trauma – how they write and unwrite the body.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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30% off everything in the @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social winter sale too. The non-fic list is peerless (and EXTENSIVE), there's some of the best books of recent times in here so have a look and see what you can find 💥🔥

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November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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❄️WINTER READING SALE ❄️

We’re running a winter sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. GMT on 19 December, with a 30 per cent discount across our website, including Fiction, Essay, Classics and Poetry titles, subscriptions, collections and tote bags.
❄️
Shop now: bit.ly/4oRFpxc
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
'Far from a literary gimmick, the novel comes across as an urgent call to resist complacency and recover one’s vitality in the face of injustice. It’s a stunner.' @publisherswkly.bsky.social gives THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale: www.publishersweekly.com/9780811239400
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova
In this captivating and capacious novel from Stepanova (In Memory of Memory), a 50-year-old novelist experiences a bizarre and l...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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★★★★ Claire-Louise Bennett’s virtuosic prose returns to ponder intimacy, but treads some old ground writes Claudia Bull on Big Kiss, Bye-Bye @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/books/claire...
Claire-Louise Bennett: Big Kiss, Bye-Bye review - a thousand conversations
Strictly speaking, an epistolary novel tells more than one story. You could say, for example, that Dracula is “about” a collection of letters and diary entries and in the same vein, that Claire-Louise...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
❄️WINTER READING SALE ❄️

We’re running a winter sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. GMT on 19 December, with a 30 per cent discount across our website, including Fiction, Essay, Classics and Poetry titles, subscriptions, collections and tote bags.
❄️
Shop now: bit.ly/4oRFpxc
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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If Edward Said were alive today, imagine what he would write… Thanks to @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and @ireadvintage.bsky.social for keeping this in print. Wish I had read this decades ago.
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Bonus extra event in Paris. Thursday 20th (the day before my own Paris launch, also at @after8books.bsky.social) I'm launching Jaqueline Feldman's brilliant Precarious Lease (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) the story of Le Bloc and other Paris squats. Please come! Info: after8books.com/precarious-l...
November 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
'How can a novelist make a reader feel so lost and so found at the same time? It is strange. A strange miracle.' Sukhdev Sandhu reviews VAIM by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls, for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Vaim by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate performs a strange miracle
In the Norwegian master’s latest example of ‘mystical realism’, one man makes a dreamlike, hypnotic voyage through life
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November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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'Immeasurable beauty
is immeasurable precisely
until it's gone - '

Oluwaseun Olayiwola, 'Strange Beach', @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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How should we understand transcendence? Can you experience transcendence without religion? What does it mean to live a transcendent life?

This week on Reading Our Times, @nickebs.bsky.social speaks to Clare Carlisle about her latest book 'Transcendence for Beginners'.(@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social)
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social the reviews are in.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🧱 BRICKS AND MORTAR by Clemens Meyer, tr. Katy Derbyshire, is now available in our b-format edition 🧱

‘[Bricks and Mortar is a] stylistic tour de force’
— Eileen Battersby, IRISH TIMES

Read an excerpt and order a copy here: bit.ly/3LS64Lr
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📚 A STATE OF SIEGE by Janet Frame, with an introduction from Chris Kraus, is now available from our website 📚

‘She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her.’
— Eleanor Catton, author of BIRNAM WOOD

Read an excerpt and order a copy here: bit.ly/3X7fm97
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Lovely review from @ronanhession.bsky.social of Jon Fosse's latest novel, VAIM, just published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social.
Vaim by Jon Fosse: Nobel-winning author shows his playful side
First of three related novels has a mysterious, folk tale quality to it
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Bryan Washington recommends COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW by Jessica Au in ELLE: www.elle.com/culture/book...
Bryan Washington Shares the Book Every Aspiring Writer Should Read
Plus, more reading recommendations from the Palaver author.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM