ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW: A MEMOIR OF ADOPTION NICOLE CHUNG We’re excited to introduce the unique gems on our list for the second half of 2020. From a deeply mov- A warm, candid memoir about interracial adoption, and the new titles ing memoir of interracial adoption in America (All author’s hunt for her story of origin You Can Ever Know), to a lyrical, shattering novel Nicole Chung was born severely premature, about Senegalese soldiers fighting for France on placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered the Western Front (At Night All Blood is Black), via Oregon town. From childhood, she heard an immersive story of a complex grief (Learning to the story of her adoption as a comforting, Talk to Plants), these are stories to savour from all pre-packaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate around the world. sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life. But as Nicole grew up – facing prejudice Along with a compulsive, timely noir debut (Three- her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her Fifths), a genre-bending work about troubled identity as an Asian American and as a writer luminaries from scientific history (When We Cease – she began to wonder if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. to Understand the World), a compelling biography With warmth, candour, and startling insight, showing Machiavelli’s relevance to our times and ‘This book moved me to my Nicole Chung tells of her search for the peo- an electrifying, inventive novel of communal guilt very core’ Celeste Ng ple who gave her up, which coincided with the in the wake of a drowning (Machine), this is a list of birth of her own child. the world’s best stories, to be read and read again. Cover design by Anna Morrison Nicole Chung was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Her debut memoir, All You Can Ever Know, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, ISBN: 9781911590309 and named a Best Book of the Year by Price: £9.99 nearly two dozen outlets including the Published: July 2020 Washington Post, Time and the Boston Extent: 256pp Globe. She is the editor-in-chief of Cata- Format: B-format PB pult magazine. new titles new MACHINE WHEN WE CEASE TO SUSAN STEINBERG UNDERSTAND THE WORLD BENJAMÍN LABATUT
A jagged, propulsive story of guilt and youth spinning off its axis A mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, new titles in the wake of a drowning ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness
A local girl drowns one night in summer on When We Cease to Understand the World the shore. As a seething guilt settles over the shows us great minds striking out into dan- teenagers of this fractured town, another girl gerous, uncharted terrain. narrates the experience of their hard-party- Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner ing, fiercely divided collective. Her parents’ Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are marriage violently collapsing, her brother among the luminaries into whose troubled spiralling into increasing destructiveness, she lives we are thrust as they grapple with the sinks further back into the events leading up most profound questions of existence. They to this tragedy and the deeper fault-lines in have strokes of unparalleled genius, they the community. alienate friends and lovers, they descend into Daringly experimental, Machine is a bold in- isolated states of madness. terrogation of gender, class and privilege, and With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, the disintegration of identity in the shadow of Benjamín Labatut uses the imaginative re- trauma. A thrilling first novel from a unique ‘Raw, undeniable power... ‘A monstrous and brilliant sources of fiction to break open the stories of talent, this is suspenseful, audacious, riveting scientists and mathematicians who expanded A brilliant read’ Daisy literary fiction. book’ Philip Pullman Johnson our notions of the possible.
Cover design by Anna Morrison Susan Steinberg is the author of Specta- Translated from the Spanish by Benjamín Labatut was born in Rotterdam cle, Hydroplane, and The End of Free Love. Adrian Nathan West in 1980 and grew up in The Hague, Bue- She is the recipient of a United States Cover design by Ute Lübbeke nos Aires and Lima. He has published two Artists Fellowship, a National Magazine award-winning works of fiction prior to Award, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches When We Cease to Understand the World, ISBN: 9781911590279 ISBN: 9781782276128 at the University of San Francisco. which is his first book to be translated Price: £12.99 Price: £14.99 into English. Labatut lives with his family Published: August 2020 Published: September 2020 in Santiago, Chile. Extent: 160pp Extent: 224pp Format: B-format HB Format: Demy Hardback new titles new MACHIAVELLI: THE ART OF THOSE WHO FORGET TEACHING PEOPLE WHAT TO FEAR GÉRALDINE SCHWARZ PATRICK BOUCHERON
A sharp biography that shows how Machiavelli’s thought is key An urgent warning against Europe’s rising populism: a woman new titles to understanding the political crises of his era, and of our own delves into how her grandparents profited from Nazism
We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultu- During the war, Géraldine Schwarz’s German ous period in history – he is the one who grandparents were neither heroes nor villains; knows how to philosophize in dark times. In they were the ‘Mitlaüfer’, those who followed fact, since his death in 1527, we have never the current. stopped reading him, always to pull ourselves But decades later, delving through filing cabi- out of a torpor. But what do we really know nets in the basement of their apartment build- about this man? ing, Géraldine discovers that her grandfather It was Machiavelli’s luck to be disappointed by Karl profited from the forced ‘Aryanisation’ every statesman he encountered – that was of Jewish businesses. Shocked, she starts to why he had to create his paper Prince. Today, research her ancestors’ past. How guilty were the question that remains is not why he they? Could they have said no? wrote, but for whom – for princes or for those Combining generations of family stories with who want to resist them? the history of Europe’s postwar reckoning, she ‘A penetrating portrait of a In this timely book, Patrick Boucheron undoes ‘An utterly original memoir asks: how did Germans transform collective complex political thinker’ many of our assumptions about Machiavelli, for our times... deeply guilt into democratic responsibility? And, with Kirkus Reviews showing how his rich, complex thought is key affecting’ Philippe Sands rising populism in Europe today, how can we to understanding his time, and may be crucial best learn from the errors of the past? to interrogating our own.
Translated from the French by Patrick Boucheron, born in 1965, is a Translated from the French by Géraldine Schwarz is a German-French Willard Wood French historian. He previously taught Laura Marris journalist, author and documentary film- Cover design by Aaron Munday medieval history at the École normale Cover design by Anna Morrison maker based in Berlin. Those Who Forget supérieure and the University of Paris, is her first book. Originally published in and is currently a professor of history at French (Les Amnésiques) then in German ISBN: 9781782276678 ISBN: 9781782275350 the Collège de France. He is the author (Die Gedächtnislosen), the book has been Price: £9.99 Price: £20 of twelve books and the editor of five, in- translated into eight languages. It won Published: September 2020 Published: September 2020 cluding France in the World, which became the European Book Prize 2018, the Win- Extent: 176pp Extent: 320pp a bestseller in France. fried Preis and the Nord-Sud Prize. Format: B-format PB Format: Royal Hardback new titles new AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS BLACK THE SECOND LIFE OF INSPECTOR DAVID DIOP CANESSA ROBERTO PERRONE
The prize-winning story of a Senegalese soldier in the trenches, Family secrets, terrorist plots and a legendary cop’s return: the new titles told in hypnotic, powerful prose second book in our collaboration with Walter Presents
Alfa Ndiaye and Mademba Diop are two of Annibale Canessa didn’t want to go back to the many Senegalese tirailleurs who fight his old life. When everything went wrong in in the Great War under the French flag. 1984, he traded his brutal, exciting career in Whenever Captain Armand blows his whistle the Carabinieri for paradise in San Fruttuoso. they climb out of their trenches to attack the He started swimming in the bay at dawn and blue-eyed enemy. But one day Mademba is helping his elderly aunt run a small restau- mortally wounded, and without his friend, rant. His life was calm. his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone amidst But some shattering news pulls him back in – the savagery of the trenches, far from all he his estranged brother has been found dead; knows and holds dear. He throws himself into lying beside him, the body of an ex-terrorist, combat with renewed vigour, but soon he be- a man Canessa himself caught. Back in Milan, gins to scare even his own comrades in arms. Canessa must pursue old connections and In At Night All Blood is Black, David Diop unsolved crimes, which draw him ever deeper captures the tragedy of a young man’s mind into the underworld he thought he’d left ‘An extraordinary novel, hurtling towards madness and tells the lit- ‘The best noir yet on the behind... full of sadness, rage and tle-heard story of the Senegalese who fought years of terror in Italy’ beauty’ Sarah Waters for France on the Western Front. Corriere della Serra
Translated from the French by David Diop was born in Paris in 1966 and Translated from the Italian by Roberto Perrone was born in Rapallo Anna Moschovakis grew up in Senegal. He currently lives Hamish Goslow and lives in Milan. As a journalist he has Cover design by Jo Walker in France, where he is head of the Arts, Cover design by Nathan Burton written extensively about food, travel and Languages and Literature Research De- sports. He is the author of several books partment at University of Pau and Pays of fiction and non-fiction, most famous- ISBN: 9781782275862 ISBN: 9781782276210 de l’Adour. At Night All Blood is Black was ly his crime series featuring Annibale Price: £14.99 Price: £9.99 shortlisted for ten major prizes in France Canessa. Published: November 2020 Published: August 2020 and won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens Extent: 160pp Extent: 416pp and the Prix Patromoines. It is currently Format: Demy Hardback Format: B-format PB being translated into 11 languages. new titles new LEARNING TO TALK TO PLANTS MISS ICELAND MARTA ORRIOLS AUÐUR AVA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR
An immersive, moving novel about a woman’s attempt to rebuild A funny, poignant novel about a female writer trying to make it new titles her life in the wake of a complex grief in a conservative world, from Iceland’s hottest literary star
Paula’s partner has died in a car accident – Born in a remote part of Iceland, and named but no one knows her true grief. Only hours after a volcano, Hekla always knew she want- before his death, Mauro revealed that he was ed to be a writer. She heads for Reyjkavik, leaving her for another woman. with a Remington typewriter and a manu- Paula guards this secret and ploughs on with script hidden in her suitcase, hoping to make her job as a paediatrician in Barcelona, trying it in the nation of poets. to maintain the outline of their old life. But But this is the 1960s, and Hekla soon discov- all of Mauro’s plants are dying, the fridge ers that there’s more demand for a beauty only contains expired yoghurt and her mind queen than a woman writer in this conserva- feverishly obsesses over this other, unknown tive, male-dominated world. Along with her woman. friend Jón John, a gay man who dreams of As the weeks pass, vitality returns to Paula working in the theatre, she soon learns that in unexpected ways. She remembers, slowly, she must conceal her true self to have any hope of success. ‘A brilliant novel’ Time Out how to live. ‘A potent, atmospheric story of creative But the world outside is changing, and frustration’ Megan Hunter Hekla knows she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever must be left behind.
Translated from the Catalan by Marta Orriols is a Spanish writer living Translated from the Icelandic by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir is a prize-winning Mara Faye Lethem in Barcelona. She studied History of Art Brian FitzGibbon novelist, playwright and poet. She is Cover design by Anna Morrison at university and later Screenwriting at Cover design by Nathan Burton the author of five novels, a collection of the Bande à Part Film School in Barcelo- poetry and four plays that have been per- na and Creative Writing at the Escuela formed at the National Theatre in Iceland ISBN: 9781782275770 ISBN: 9781782275671 de Escritura del Ateneu Barcelonés. Her and at the Reykjavik City Theatre. Auður Price: £9.99 Price: £9.99 second novel, Learning to Talk to Plants, Ava’s novels have been translated into Published: September 2020 Published: July 2020 won the Òmnium Cultural Prize for the over 25 languages; they include Butter- Extent: 256pp Extent: 256pp best Catalan novel. flies in November and Hotel Silence, both Format: B-format PB Format: B-format PB published by Pushkin Press. new titles new ‘A mesmerizingbook’ Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: Cover byJoWalker design Sophie Duvernoy Translated from the German by journalism, liesandcelebrity, inEnglishfor thefirsttime Fake inWeimar news Berlin:ablisteringclassic satire of GABRIELE TERGIT KÄSEBIER TAKES BERLIN Format: am Sonntag B-format PB B-format 336pp October 2020 £9.99 9781782276036 NZZ German-language writers abroad. ofthe PEN Centreacted assecretary for man-Jewish life, her colossal novel ofgenerations ofGer settling inLondon. There, sheworked on oslovakia andthento Palestine before In 1933shefledGermany, first to Czech with herfirst novel, ist andreporter whorose to fame in1931 Gabriele Tergit (1894-1982)was anovel the demonsthey haveaghast at unleashed. media machine churn inamazement–andare ists whobrought Käsebier to fame watch the ventures andbooks. thewhile, All thejournal makes from akilling Käsebier-themed business honour; Willi Frächter, aparvenu writer, Muschler thebanker builds atheatre inhis hosts champagne breakfasts for Käsebier; time. Margot Weissmann, patron, thearts star: astar whocan singsongsfor atroubled In theblink ofaneye, thiseveryman ismadea shopkeepers. Untilthepress shows up. a shabby stage for labourers, secretaries, and croonera small-time whoperforms nightly on unglamorous namefor anunglamorous man– German words for “cheese” and“beer,” it’s an everyone’s lips. Aliteral combination ofthe 1930,thenameKäsebierIn Berlin, ison The Effingers Käsebier Takes Berlin (1951),and - - - . - Cover byJo Walker design Format: Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: Translated from the Hungarian byLen Rix Format: Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: B-format HB B-format 160pp October 2020 £9.99 9781782275848 PB B-format 256pp October 2020 £12.99 9781782275923 of thelesbianvampire myth. generations ofwriters andisthefoundation predated Dracula by 26years, hasinspired gothic horror andsexual tension, soon aghastly truth isrevealed. Suffused with wanderings quickly become unsettling, and friend’s strange habitsandeerie nocturnal companion ofherown age, but hernew At first Laura isglad to finally have afemale brings anunexpected guestto theschloss. father for company –untilamoonlitnight Laura leads a solitary life with only her elderly In alonely castle deep intheStyrian forest, classic female vampire story editionofthiscult A beautifulgift SHERIDAN LE FANU CARMILLA Telegraph Tolstoy‘The ofTransylvania’ twentieth century. one oftheforemost European writers ofthe this collection establishes further as Bánffy first time by theaward-winning LenRix, his own day. Translated into English for the classical antiquityto theTransylvania of of cunning, betrayal andmyth ranging from narrates wisdomstoriesBánffy withwry In thisstark, hauntingcollection, Miklós intrigue from aEuropean master Transporting storiesoftradition and MIKLÓS BÁNFFY SELECTED TALES THE ENCHANTED NIGHT: Daily Carmilla
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Perfectly paced and brimming with passion – twenty-two tales Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth new titles from a master storyteller of the twentieth century century’s greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s friendship across borders. Encounters and short stories, the very best and worst of Destinies collects his most impassioned and human nature are captured with sharp ob- moving tributes to his many illustrious friends servation, understanding and vivid empathy. and peers: literary, philosophical and artistic Ranging from love and death to faith restored luminaries from across the Old Europe that and hope regained, these stories present a ISBN: 9781782273462 Zweig loved so much, and which he grieved to master at work, at the top of his form. Price: £9.99 see so cruelly destroyed by two world wars. Published: August 2020 Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell. Extent: 192pp Format: B-format PB Translated from the German by Will Stone • Cover design by Nathan Burton NIETZSCHE STEFAN ZWEIG ‘One of the masters of the short story’ Guardian A dazzling, tour-de-force biography In this vivid biography, Zweig eschews traditional academic discussion and focuses on Nietzsche’s habits, passions and Translated from the German by Stefan Zweig was one of the most popular obsessions. Concentrating on the man rather Anthea Bell and widely translated writers of the early than the work, on the tragedy of his existence Cover design by Nathan Burton twentieth century. Born into an Austri- and his apartness from the world in which he an-Jewish family in 1881, he became a moved in enforced isolation, Zweig draws the leading figure in Vienna’s cosmopolitan reader inexorably into Nietzsche’s tragic life. ISBN: 9781782276319 cultural world and was famed for his Price: £14.99 ISBN: 9781782276364 gripping novellas and vivid psychological This edition is illustrated with numerous Published: September 2020 Price: £9.99 biographies. photographs relating to Nietzsche and his Extent: 720pp Published: October 2020 European locations, in a superb translation by Format: B-format PB Extent: 112pp Will Stone. Format: B-format PB Translated from the German by Will Stone • Cover design by Nathan Burton 17 pushkin vertigo THE MAJESTIES THREE-FIFTHS TIFFANY TSAO JOHN VERCHER
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Cover design by Chris Bentham Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary Cover design by Aaron Munday John Vercher is a writer based in the Phil- translator. She is the author of the Oddfits adelphia area with his wife and two sons. fantasy series, and this is her debut novel He holds a Bachelor’s in English from the for adults. Born in the US and of Chinese- University of Pittsburgh and an MFA in Indonesian descent, Tiffany spent her Creative Writing from the Mountainview ISBN: 9781782276654 ISBN: 9781782276616 formative years in Singapore and Indone- Master of Fine Arts program. His fiction Price: £8.99 Price: £12.99 sia before moving to the US for university. has appeared on Akashic Books’ Mondays Published: August 2020 Published: October 2020 She now lives in Sydney with her spouse are Murder and Fri-SciFi and he is a con- Extent: 272pp Extent: 256pp and two children. tributing writer for Cognoscenti, WBUR Format: B-format PB Format: Demy Trade PB Boston’s thoughts and opinions page. pushkin vertigo THE DECAGON HOUSE MURDERS CUTTING EDGE YUKITO AYATSUJI EDITED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES
A classic Japanese murder mystery inspired by the golden age of Joyce Carol Oates edits a chilling female-led noir anthology British crimewriting featuring new writing from Margaret Atwood and Steph Cha
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Translated by Ho-Ling Wong Yukito Ayatsuji (born 1960) is a Japanese Cover design by Jo Walker Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a writer of mystery and horror novels. He is number of works of fiction, poetry and one of the founders of the Honkaku Mys- nonfiction. She is the editor ofNew Jersey tery Writers Club of Japan, dedicated to Noir and Prison Noir and a recipient of the the writing of fair play mysteries inspired National Book Award, the PEN Amer- ISBN: 9781782276340 ISBN: 9781782276517 by the Golden Age greats. In 1992 he won ica Lifetime Achievement Award, the Price: £8.99 Price: £10.99 the Mystery Writers of Japan Award. The National Humanities Medal, and a World Published: December 2020 Published: November 2020 Decagon House Murders was Ayatsuji’s Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. She lives Extent: 224pp Extent: 240pp debut novel and is the first of his works to in Princeton, New Jersey. Format: B-format PB Format: B-format PB be translated into English. new editions WILL new in paperback DINNER WITH EDWARD new in paperback JEROEN OLYSLAEGERS ISABEL VINCENT
A tense, thrilling, morally murky read about collaboration in A charming, tender and life-affirming memoir of a middle-aged Nazi-occupied Antwerp woman’s unlikely bond with a 93-year-old widower new editions new It is 1941, and Antwerp is in the grip of Nazi With its delicious food, warm jazz, and occupation. Young policeman Wilfried Wils stunning views of Manhattan, Edward’s home has no intention of being a hero – but war has was a much-needed refuge for reporter Isabel a way of catching up with people. Vincent. Her recently widowed ninety-some- When his idealistic best friend draws him into thing neighbour would prepare weekly meals the growing resistance movement, and an SS for her, dinners Isabel would never cook for commander tries to force him into collabo- herself – fresh oysters, juicy steak, sug- rating, Wilfried’s loyalties become horribly, ar-dusted apple galette. But over long, dark fatally torn. As the beatings, destruction evenings where they both grieved for their and round-ups intensify across the city, he is very different lost marriages, Isabel realised forced into an act that will have consequences she was being offered a gift greater than crisp he could never have imagined. martinis and perfect lamb chops. A searing portrayal of a man trying to survive As they progressed from meals à deux to amid the treachery, compromises and moral full dinner parties with an eclectic New York ‘Brilliant, morally complex... ‘Glorious... the most life- crowd, she saw that Edward was showing her compelling’ Observer, darkness of occupation, Will asks what any of enhancing book I have read us would risk to fight evil. how to rediscover the joy of life and savour a Books of the Year 2019 in years’ Daily Express pure, simple pleasure she had not known she could find again.
Translated from the Flemish by Jeroen Olyslaegers (b. 1967) is a Flemish Cover design by Anna Morrison Isabel Vincent is a Canadian investiga- David Colmer author and playwright. Will won four tive journalist and award-winning author Cover design by Clare Skeats major prizes in the Netherlands and who writes for the New York Post. She has Flanders and is being translated into written several books for which she has eight languages. He lives in Antwerp, on received prestigious honours. Dinner with ISBN: 9781782274254 ISBN: 9781911590187 the Kruikstraat, where police helped the Edward has been translated into seven Price: £8.99 Price: £8.99 Nazis round up Jews during the Second languages and is being adapted for film. Published: September 2020 Published: July 2020 World War. Her writings have also appeared in the Extent: 352pp Extent: 240pp New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine Format: B-format PB Format: Paperback and L’Officiel. She lives in New York. new editions TENDER IS THE FLESH new in paperback MS ICE SANDWICH AGUSTINA BAZTERRICA MIEKO KAWAKAMI
Everyone’s eating human meat. Would you? The acclaimed, New edition of this witty, moving story of adolescent love and darkly gripping dystopian novel in which cannibalism is legal loss from the prize-winning author of Breasts and Eggs new editions new It all happened so quickly. First, animals A young boy returns obsessively to a super- became infected with the virus and their market sandwich counter, entranced by the meat became poisonous. Then governments beauty of the woman who works there. Her initiated the Transition. Now, ‘special meat’ – aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids human meat – is legal. make him feel the most intense joy he’s ever Marcos is in the business of slaughtering known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, and he humans - only no one calls them that. He wants nothing more than to spend his days works with numbers, consignments, process- watching her coolly slip sandwiches into bags. ing. One day, he’s given a gift to seal a deal: a But life keeps getting in the way – there’s his specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her beloved grandmother’s illness, and a faltering in his barn, tied up, a problem to be disposed friendship with his classmate Tutti, who she of later. invites him into her private world. Wry, inti- But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, mate and wonderfully skewed, Ms Ice Sand- and watchful gaze, seem to understand. And wich is a poignant depiction of the naivety ‘A thrilling dystopia that ‘Beautifully told... gentle, and wisdom of youth, just as it is passing. everyone should read’ Dazed soon, he becomes tortured by what has been funny, moving’ Daily and Confused lost - and what might still be saved. Express
Translated from the Spanish by Agustina Bazterrica is an Argentinian Translated from the Japanese by Born in Osaka prefecture in 1976, Mieko Sarah Moses novelist and short-story writer. She is a Louise Heal Kawai Kawakami began her career as a singer Cover design by Anna Morrison central figure in the Buenos Aires literary Cover design by Jo Walker and songwriter before making her literary scene and has received several awards for debut in 2006. She has won many awards, her writing, most notably the prestigious including the prestigious Akutagawa ISBN: 9781782276203 ISBN: 9781782276722 Premio Clarín Novela for her second Prize. She is the author of the novels Price: £8.99 Price: £7.99 novel, Tender is the Flesh, which is being Heaven, The Night Belongs to Lovers, and Published: November 2020 Published: August 2020 translated into ten languages. Breasts and Eggs, soon to be published in Extent: 224pp Extent: 96pp English. She lives in Japan. Format: B-format PB Format: B- format PB new editions MEMORIES OF LOW new in paperback IN THE HOUSE IN THE new in paperback TIDE DARK OF THE WOODS CHANTAL THOMAS LAIRD HUNT
A memoir of the mother-daughter bond and the transformative The highly acclaimed dark fairytale, full of witchcraft, where power of swimming by a multi-award-winning author nothing is as it seems new editions new Chantal Thomas grew up in a seaside town Once upon a time there was and there wasn’t a on the Atlantic coast of France, inheriting woman who went to the woods. from her mother an obsession with the sea, In this dark fairy tale, a young woman sets off and for swimming. In this tender and eloquent to pick berries in the depths of the forest, but memoir she seeks to understand her quixotic, can’t find her way home again. Or perhaps often inscrutable mother - a woman who was she has fled or abandoned her family. Or luminous in the water and once dived into the perhaps she’s been kidnapped, and set loose moat of the Palace of Versailles, but became to wander in the dense woods of the north. fettered by marriage and domestic life. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another Thomas combs the beaches of her childhood woman who offers her help. Then everything for memories, recalling the sensory pleasures changes. of the sands, the first sharp touch of cold On a journey that will take her to the depths water, and discovering the multitude of ways of the witch-haunted woods, through a deep in which she is still her mother’s daughter. ‘Wonderful... her descriptions ‘Suspenseful, threat- well wet with the screams of men, and on a are a kind of bottled filled story of witchcraft’ living ship made of human bones, our heroine perfection’ Financial Times Observer may find that the evil she flees has been inside her all along.
Translated from the French by Chantal Thomas was raised at the seaside Cover design by Anna Morrison Laird Hunt is an American writer and Natasha Lehrer in Arcachon, near Bordeaux. She has translator. He has written seven novels, Cover design by Alice Laurent taught literature in a number of American including Neverhome, which was a New universities and is the author of over 20 York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice books. She also works as a screenwriter. selection, an IndieNext selection, winner ISBN: 9781782275206 ISBN: 9781911590224 She won the Prix Femina for her novel of the Grand Prix de Littérature Amér- Price: £9.99 Price: £8.99 Farewell, My Queen (2002), and later re- icaine and The Bridge prize. A resident Published: August 2020 Published: October 2020 ceived the prestigious Roger-Caillois and of Boulder, CO, he is on the faculty in Extent: 240pp Extent: 224pp Prince de Monaco prizes for her entire the creative writing PhD program at the Format: B-format PB Format: B-format PB work. University of Denver.
pushkin collection pushkin 28 section ‘He was ofwhich thestuff James glories are made’ Henry glories are made’Henry Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: Cover byClare design Skeats Nicolas Slater andMaya Slater Translated from the Russian by storiesandnovellasselection ofshort From themostromantic oftheRussian greats, anenthralling IVAN TURGENEV STORIES LOVE AND YOUTH: ESSENTIAL Format: Flapped Paperback 224pp October 2020 £12 9781782276012 novels ofthenineteenthcentury. It isnow regarded asoneofthegreatest poorly received bymany Russian critics. most famous novel writers His suchasGustave Flaubert. Europe, where hebecame friends with and lived for muchofhislife inWestern ic family in1818.Hestudied inBerlin Ivan Turgenev was bornto anaristocrat over. theseareand ‘Biryuk’, stories to belingered District Doctor’ andhumanity of‘The pathos Meadow’‘Bezhin and‘Rattling Wheels’,to the stories. From the evocative rural scenes of First Love Nicolas Slater, placesTurgenev’s great novella This collection, inalyrical new translation by charged withaprofound socialconscience. teriorities, whethernobilityorserf, instories these characters, rendering theircomplex in istoskill make hisreaders feelalongside the layered reflections ofmaturity. His great love, thethrilling adventures ofyouth, and rience thejoy andpainful turbulence offirst story.in asingleshort Hisprotagonists expe able to contain thenarrative sweep ofanovel An icon ofRussian literature, Turgenev was alongsideaselectionofhisclassic Fathers andSons was - - - ‘One never tires ofreading Format: Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: Cover byClare design Skeats Bryan Karetnyk Translated from the Japanese by the iconic Japanesewriter formedA perfectly collection ofnewly translated stories from STORIES ENLIGHTENMENT: ESSENTIAL MURDER OF INTHE AGE and re-reading hisbest works’ HarukiMurakami works’ Flapped Paperback 224pp December 2020 £12 9781782275558
RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA his life andhecommitted suicideaged 35. deteriorated rapidly towards theendof his mother’s madness,hismental health Haunted bythefear thathewould inherit pre-eminent prose stylist andmodernist. lifetimein hisshort andisrenowned asa heproduced story, overanese short 150 period. Regarded asthefather oftheJap figures ofthe leading literary Taisho Ryunosuke Akutagawa was oneofJapan’s again andagain. stylish originality; they are stories to beread Akutagawa’s stories are characterised by their always gripping prose. they unfold inelegant,sometimeslaconic, session. Vividly translated by Bryan Karetnyk, into momentsofmadness, murder, andob to theEmperor’s court, they offerglimpses bamboo grove, to alantern festival inTokyo, the darkness ofourdesires. From anisolated collection are subtly wrought depictions of The stories inthisfantastical, unconventional - -
29 pushkin collectionsection sectionpushkin collection POEMS TO NIGHT RAINER MARIA RILKE
Haunting poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke – most of which have never before been translated into English
In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented the writer Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems, meticulously copied out in his own hand, which bore the ti- tle Poems to Night. This cycle of poems, which came about in an almost clandestine manner, is now thought to represent one of the key ‘This book is light, funny and erudite: a ‘The Other’s Gold is just the immersive pushkin press highlights press pushkin stages of this master poet’s development. delight’ Guardian read to lose yourself in’ Stylist
Never before translated into English, this col- ISBN: 9781782275824 ISBN: 9781911590323 lection brings together all of Rilke’s significant Price: £9.99 Price: £12.99 Extent: 288pp Extent: 368pp night poems in one volume.
Translated from the German by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) is one of Will Stone the great German writers. A master of Cover design by Clare Skeats both poetry and prose, he is best known for Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. ISBN: 9781782275534 Price: £12 December 2020 Published: ‘Margot’s is an exceptional voice’ Deborah Longlisted for the International Booker Extent: 96pp Feldman, author of Unorthodox Prize 2020 Format: Flapped Paperback ISBN: 9781782275268 ISBN: 9781782274230 Price: £12.99 Price: £9.99 Extent: 320pp Extent: 432pp 30 pushkin press highlights
‘Slim and punchy... throw[s] a light on our ‘Close kin to Beloved and The ‘[An] astonishing, haunting memoir’ ‘A perceptive and exquisitely observed times’ Irish Times Underground Railroad... tender, humane Isabella Tree, author of Wilding novel, Liar should win Gundar-Goshen a highlights press pushkin and suffused with lyricism’ Guardian wide international readership’ Observer ISBN: 9781782276159 ISBN: 9781911590132 ISBN: 9781782275640 ISBN: 9781782274056 Price: £7.99 Price: £8.99 Price: £9.99 Price: £8.99 Extent: 112pp Extent: 368pp Extent: 224pp Extent: 288pp
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