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.

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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!

Books: The Little Horse by Thorvald Steen, tr by James Anderson, and Selfies by Sylvie Weil tr by Roz Schwartz

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.

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

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-...

‘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...

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...

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 👏🎉

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

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Michèle Roberts & Alice Blackhurst: French Cooking for Two Michèle Roberts discusses the follow-up to Bookshop bestseller French Cooking for One with Alice Blackhurst

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

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We’re honoured and privileged to publish Yann Chateigné’s sui generis writing in English. Long live.

Big thanks to everyone at Reference.Point for having us, for their super sleek set up of sound, space and last minute visuals, and for making us feel welcome. Thanks to everyone who came along, on a grisly evening, in particular Dan Jenkins and, last but not least, David Toop.

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.

Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer

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.
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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.

Our colleagues working with us on the minimum wage without any job security apart from our good word are heroes.

Anyone enjoying the work released by a small literary press is an independent thinker putting money where their mouth is, and therefore, in our eyes, is a hero. Even big chains are heroes for stocking our work. Our reps are heroes.

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!

See you tomorrow in Bath for the Peirene indie book fair!