Our next title will be Nicolas de Staël’s SELECTED LETTERS: 1926-1955, translated by Helen Stevenson and Nico Mann, with a preface by Jean Frémon. www.lesfugitives.com/2026/nicolas... Out 1 October 2026.

Selected Letters: 1926–1955, by French abstract artist Nicolas de Staël, tr. Helen Stevenson — Les Fugitives

Available in English for the first time, these selected letters - reminiscent of Van Gogh's Letters or Delacroix's Journals - represent Nicolas de Staël's correspondence with his adoptive parents, his...

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Please join us for the launch of THE SURVIVING CELLS on 14 October at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with author @brianwillems.bsky.social in conversation with @hannahhg.bsky.social burleyfisherbooks.com/products/the...

Looking for books to read for Women in Translation month? Many of our backlist titles were written and translated by women. Head to our website for your next read - from fiction to non fiction to poetry to YA in translation. www.lesfugitives.com/all-books

Congratulations to the winner of the Betty Trask Prize: 📖 Harriet Armstrong for To Rest Our Minds and Bodies (lesfugitivespress.bsky.press). The Betty Trask Prize is presented for a first novel by a writer under 35. #SoAwards

'There is no such thing as a reliable narrator, and efforts to achieve real truth often destroy it.' Harriet Armstrong interviews @aeavvw.bsky.social about her debut novel Attention-Seeking Behaviour: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ae...

Interview | Aea Varfis-van Warmelo: ‘There is no such thing as a reliable narrator.’ - The London Magazine

Interviewed by Harriet Armstrong, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo on lying, parlour tricks, 'feigned humanity' and her debut novel Attention-Seeking Behaviour.

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read, and loved, TO REST OUR MINDS AND BODIES by Harriet Armstrong

We are delighted to share that Harriet Armstrong has won the @societyofauthors.bsky.social Betty Trask Prize for first novel by authors under 35 for her debut TO REST OUR MINDS AND BODIES.

Shiny Tuesday: @annabookbel.bsky.social reviews Wilderness of Mirrors by Olufemi Terry, from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/wilderness-o...

Wilderness of Mirrors by Olufemi Terry

Review by Annabel Les Fugitives is a small indie press that initially specialised in French translations, of both literary fiction and nonfiction (see here). Lately, they've widened their scope to

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New on the podcast 🎧: Michèle Roberts talks to Alice Blackhurst about her Bookshop bestsellers, FRENCH COOKING FOR ONE and FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO. (Both published by @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social) Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

VILLA WINTREBERT, Penelope Curtis’s follow-up to AFTER NORA (Les Fugitives; 2024), will be out on 3 July 2026. Pre-order here www.lesfugitives.com/2026/curtis-...

Delighted to announce we will be at Offprint London next week. Come say hi, grab yourself a book!

Join Harriet Armstrong with the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted cohort for a celebration at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social on 13 May. Follow the link for tickets. events.bl.uk/events/the-d...

The Dylan Thomas Prize: A Shortlist Celebration | British Library

On the eve of International Dylan Thomas Day, meet the six shortlisted authors for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, the world’s largest l

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We are delighted to announce that WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS by @oluterry.bsky.social is published today! Available to order on our website www.lesfugitives.com/2026/wildern...

Many congratulations to Harriet Armstrong, who age 25 is the youngest author on the shortlist of this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut novel To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, joining fellow novelists Colwill Brown, Seán Hewitt, Derek Owusu, and poets Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Suzannah V Evans.

Read an extract from WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS (@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social), the forthcoming debut by @oluterry.bsky.social. The novel follows a Creole named Emil, experiencing the whirlwinds of young adulthood in the fictional post-apartheid South African city, Stadmutter. buff.ly/RGTGMhp

Reading in bed with Ginny @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

Booksellers and reviewers, we’ve got 8 advance review copies left of our upcoming title Wilderness of Mirrors which we’d love to send to you this week. Let us know!

Our first - and lead! - title of 2026 will be Olufemi Terry’s fiction debut Wilderness of Mirrors, out March 12. A prescient political novel set in a parallel, contemporary southern part of Africa still reeling from the effects of racial Partition.

Please join us for 3 book events with some of our recent authors next month! www.lesfugitives.com/events

Just received our first stack of the new edition of Harriet Armstrong’s TROMAB with the Dylan Thomas Prize longlist roundel!

We are delighted to announce that Harriet Armstrong’s To Rest Our Minds and Bodies is part of this year’s Swansea University @dylanthomasprize longlist amongst such an inspiring and exciting cohort of young international writers and poets!

Yes I should be reading book already on my shelves, but I'm also trying to order some of the titles that have been sitting on my waitlists. @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social #Seagullbooks

Dec reading. Thanks to @stuhennigan.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @jonathancape.bsky.social @scratchbooks.bsky.social @judecook.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @backlisted.bsky.social @burningshed.com @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

Fionna O’Connor has picked Harriet Armstrong‘s To Rest Our Minds and Bodies as one her best books of 2025 for The Morning Star.

Georgia de Chamberet calls Zombie Proust ‘a clever, thought-provoking essay about how culture preserves the Greats of literature’ in Bookblast. bookblast.org/blog/zombie-...

Zombie Proust Jérôme Prieur Review | BookBlast®

Review of Zombie Proust by Jérôme Prieur. It is the opposite of a conventional biography or hagiography.

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Read an excerpt from Olufemi Terry’s debut novel Wilderness of Mirrors (out April 2026) in the Johannesburg Review of Books johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/12/15/l...

‘Little by little, he makes out the forms of things’—Read an excerpt from Wilderness of Mirrors, the debut novel by Caine Prize-winning writer Olufemi Terry

The JRB presents an excerpt from Olufemi Terry's debut novel, Wilderness of Mirrors. Wilderness of MirrorsOlufemi TerryLes Fugitives (UK), March 2026Restless Books (USA), 2025 One o’clock in the morni...

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Join us next week at Bàrd Books in East London to celebrate our ten-year anniversary! www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

Some good cheer to start off your Mondays — @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social's To Rest our Minds & Bodies was a Fiction book of the year in the Guardian this weekend! Huge congratulations to Harriet Armstrong 👏🎉 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

The best fiction of 2025

The Guardian’s fiction editor picks the best of the year, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count to Thomas Pynchon’s return, David Szalay’s Booker winner and a remarkable collection of short stor...

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Les Fugitives@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Congratulations to Harriet Armstrong as To Rest Our Minds And Bodies - her debut! - was named a Guardian book of the year!

Congratulations to Harriet Armstrong as To Rest Our Minds And Bodies - her debut! - was named a Guardian book of the year!

Mark your calendars: offer valid all day on Monday 1 December only, only on the Les Fugitives website. Happy reading!