'Tender yet furious.' Publishers Weekly

Proofs have landed for The Night of Baba Yaga, a no-holds-barred queer gangland thriller from Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett. Publishing 12 September.

Keep an eye out for the full cover reveal soon👀

It’s almost May which means it’s almost The Late Americans’ publication day. Reviewers, if you’d like a copy DM me your postal address 📮(and maybe even some merch, just in time for the sun’s return to the UK 🧢🌞)

9 May 2024 | Brandon

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Vintage Books

⭐️Book event alert⭐️

We are welcoming 2 absolute game-changers to the #FeministBookSociety stage this month 🔥 Do Not Miss This!!

Chimene Suleyman + #SophieWilliams #OfficialMillennialBlack on #Solidarity ❤️

Tix + author info + all you need to know 👉 shorturl.at/cyJ37

Three weeks until the #InternationalBooker2024 ceremony, sponsored by Valentino. ✨

Which of the shortlisted books have you read so far?

Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider review – bringers of joy dlvr.it/T66nJf

🏆 Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, @safiyasinclair!🏆

She has won the 14th annual award for How to Say Babylon: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster / 4th Estate Books

Sponsored by One Caribbean Media

#OCMBocasPrize2024 #bocas2024 #OneCaribbeanMedia

A sensation when it was published in the 1990s, Wang Xiaobo's riotous tale of an illicit love affair is an explosive, subversive, wild and hilarious satire of the Cultural Revolution. Now available in paperback.

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'The power of money – and its infrequent bedfellow, class – has the ability to change something worthless into something with pretensions towards cultural importance. The notion of quality is sometimes no more than a whim.'

‘It’s not so much that I perform Zong!, but rather I allow the text to perform me. When I was composing the book I became very aware of a sense in which I was un-authoring the work.’

NourbeSe Philip in conversation with momtaza mehri 💆🏾‍♀️ Granta

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No better way to spend our Saturday afternoon than with 村田沙耶香 Sayaka Murata, celebrated and internationally bestselling author of #ConvenienceStoreWoman , in conversation with the wonderful Max Liu!

Find precious SIGNED copies of Murata's work at our flagship—hurry, hurry, hurry💨

‘He did what people told him to do. He was a machine.’

A short story by Eka Kurniawan, translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker.

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Join us on Monday at The Poetry Café London as we launch three thrilling new #ignitionpress pamphlets by Janine Bradbury, Eric Yip & eira murphy! Free to attend, but please register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ignitionpres…

We want everyone to be able to enjoy a day out at Women’s Prize LIVE on 12th June. Books belong to everyone. We know things are hard for many people on low incomes in the UK right now.

That’s why  we’ve made 20 spaces available 100% free. Find out more: bit.ly/WPLIVEFree

Can we ever take a piece of art at face value? In my latest for Elephant Magazine,
I wrote about gendered reactions to autofiction and visual self-mythology in the art of Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Tracey Emin and more 🎨

elephant.art/why-women-are-…

“García Márquez once told me...about entire villages in Colombia that hauled their cemeteries with them as they migrated, trying to keep some semblance of the past alive in the midst of the multiple catastrophes that had uprooted them.” —Ariel Dorfman go.nybooks.com/3y39pQU

Big love to everyone who read the magazine and shared their poems with us. Extra big love to professional person, Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉 and Joe Carrick-Varty.

Gboyega, wherever you are: ❤️

If you’ve visited the shop recently you may have noticed our indie publisher spotlight! In April we gave the floor to prototype, a publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects with an emphasis on producing unique and beautiful books. 💫

London Launch of 'Popular Song' with
Martha Sprackland, Tiffany Anne Tondut,
Tom Weir, and Matt Bryden coming up at Torriano Meeting House This Thursday!

7pm-9pm, 2nd May.
Nearest tube: Tufnell Park
Join us!

Infos: eventbrite.co.uk/e/popular-song…

I don’t think you’re ready for Slave Play West End…starring Olivia Washington and Kit Harington.

The energy in the room upon their first meeting was grabbed us all by the gut and was captured beautifully by Olivia Fungula.

Are you ready?

Get tix now: tickets.delfontmackintosh.co.uk/index.asp?ShoI…

It's here: the 13th and final issue of bath magg is now live 🦆🛁🚀

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