Helen Charman will be in conversation with Kate Briggs at John Sandoe on Wednesday the 11th of September and you should come! eventbrite.co.uk/e/mother-state…

bookhaus ▫️Wednesday, 4 September▫️Heather McCalden will be in conversation with Valerie O'Riordan BlackwellsManchester in Manchester. Tickets and details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-observab…

On September 29th Alaa Abd El Fattah should walk free. He will have completed 5 years unjustly in prison since his last arrest, the full term of his sentence after a manifestly illegitimate trial. Email your MP to make sure David Lammy remains committed to #FreeAlaa freealaa.net/message-mp

September releases: AN INCONVENIENT PLACE and THE EMPUSIUM | Pre-order the complete First Decade Collection | Upcoming events - mailchi.mp/fitzcarraldoed…

This is tonight!

▫️Saturday, 5 October▫️ Marianne Brooker will be Birmingham Lit Fest, discussing her memoir INTERVALS. Details and tickets here: ticketsource.co.uk/bhamlitfest/in…

TOMORROW NIGHT! We're delighted to be welcoming Heather McCalden to the shop to discuss THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE - her incedible genre-defying memoir which explores grief, loss and the entwined histories of AIDS and the Internet. Heather will be chatting with Valerie O’Riordan 🎫👇🏻

Pre-orders of full sets have all been allocated. Individual copies will be available to pre-order on 12 September via an exclusive link sent to subscribers. Pre-orders of full sets will resume on this date, subject to availability of individual titles. fitzcarraldoeditions.com/first-decade-c…

Publication week! 🎉 THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET by Janet Frame Fitzcarraldo Editions seen in the wild Foyles Bookshop 🎉

At last! ⁦Fitzcarraldo Editions⁩ meets Janet Frame.

TONIGHT! Heather McCalden will be here talking to Valerie O’Riordan about THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE - her incredible genre-defying memoir which explores grief, loss and the entwined histories of AIDS and the Internet. Doors: 6.30, starts: 6.45 Tickets online below and on the door.

ummmmmm GUESS WHAT JUST ARRIVED ON MY DOORSTEP (almost) A MONTH EARLY?!? what a week, man Fitzcarraldo Editions

Next week!

ALTA is delighted to announce the longlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards in Poetry & Prose! literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/ann… 2024 is the 26th year for the NTA + the 10th year to award separate prizes in poetry & prose. Congrats to all translators, authors & publishers here!

Buen momento para felicitar a la ganadora y al ganador. Y recordar que en 2022 el Premio Europeo de Literatura lo ganó #TrilogíaNocilla en su traducción al holandés #NocillaTrilogie (trad.Adri Boon) edit. Uitgeverij Koppernik (Alfaguara , Fitzcarraldo Editions en UK, Farrar,Straus&Giroux en USA)

Two wonderful events this week with two fantastic authors who were an absolute delight to meet! A huge thank you to Heather McCalden and Helen Charman and hosts Valerie O’Riordan and Jennifer Jasmine White for kicking off the Autumn events season at BlackwellsManchester in such style!

'The beauty of Le Bloc was not that it took in everyone but that it took in anyone; one of its failures was that it could not take in everyone.' Read an essay adapted from an excerpt of PRECARIOUS LEASE by Jacqueline Feldman (January 2025) in The Paris Review: theparisreview.org/blog/2024/08/2…

'I ventured a careful, timid crawl. My knees ached a lot, which, maybe because of my Catholic upbringing, I interpreted as a positive sign.' Alejandro Zambra: Childish Literature (Fitzcarraldo Editions)