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.
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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
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
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 · 8mo agoCongratulations 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!
Last few tickets left for Wednesday's event with Michèle Roberts and Alice Blackhurst on FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO, the follow-up to Roberts's bestseller FRENCH COOKING FOR ONE Grab your tickets here: lrb.me/15c6a6 @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
Michèle Roberts & Alice Blackhurst: French Cooking for Two
Michèle Roberts discusses the follow-up to Bookshop bestseller French Cooking for One with Alice Blackhurst
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We were so engrossed in the event last night we forgot to take pictures! These are from Clem. Big thanks to Gareth Evans, Yann and Clem’s co-speaker extraordinaire who chaired the conversation with brio, and injected irresistible humour.
We were shocked and saddened to read that Rachel Cooke had died. She championed Michèle Roberts' work, and her take on French Cooking for One proposed the book to the bestsellers sphere. We remember her exemplary, fearless originality and generous spirit. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
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Can’t go to this tomorrow night, alas, but it should be excellent. Blackout is one of the books of the year, a sui generis journey into silence, mixing memoir, philosophy & art criticism.
Les Fugitives@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 10mo agoPlease join us on 18 November for an event at Reference.Point in London about BLACKOUT with debut author Yann Chateigné Tytelman and his translator @clementoctober.bsky.social in conversation with writer and film curator Gareth Evans. Get your ticket www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
That is sobering news. What on earth do we bother for? competing against Behemoths, when reprinting 3,000 copies of a book reviewed across the whole national press nearly bankrupts us.
Amazing to see both French Cooking for One and French Cooking for Two on the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk bestsellers list!
LRB Bookshop@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 9mo agoThis week’s bestsellers 🧠 (+ THE PENELOPIAD by Margaret Atwood - we're currently out of stock!) Find out more about each book here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...
