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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please join us to celebrate the launch of Nicolas de Staël’s SELECTED LETTERS: 1926-1955 with translators Helen Stevenson & Nico Mann in conversation with poet Suzannah V. Evans on Friday 2 October at 6.30pm at Hatchards Piccadilly. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicolas-de...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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-...

Paperback original. Pre order for £10.99. Out 3 July

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Another excerpt, this time from the Winter section of FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship by Michèle Roberts. In case you missed Michèle last week, join us at Veranda Bookshop this Thursday for the book launch. Get your free ticket here www.ticketsource.co.uk/veranda-books

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A great first day at @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair today! Michèle Roberts came by to sign early copies of French Cooking for Two (here pictured with our SPF neighbour Nick Royles of Nightjar Press)

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Please 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-...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

UPDATED events calendar. Join us this month and next to discuss our new releases in the UK and Belgium. No OffPrint for us this time around, but an exciting book launch for FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship by Michèle Roberts. www.lesfugitives.com/events

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

In the @lrb.co.uk London Review of Books this month. Les Fugitives has been preparing a reprint of Erica Van Horn’s We Still Have the Telephone for this month’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social Small Publishers Fair.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman (translated by @clementoctober.bsky.social ) is out tomorrow. Join us at Veranda Books for the launch tomorrow (ticketed). You can also order BLACKOUT now from our website www.lesfugitives.com/2025/yann-ch...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Join us in Bath for the Indie Book Fair this November!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Join us at 6.30 at Veranda Bookshop in London on 2 October to celebrate the launch of BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman who will be in conversation with his translator @clementoctober.bsky.social . Get your free tickets here www.ticketsource.co.uk/veranda-books

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We received a special delivery at the office today! Our copies of BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, translated from the French by Clem Clement @clementoctober.bsky.social

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We look forward to bringing out the UK edition of Olufemi Terry’s debut novel Wilderness of Mirrors in Spring 2026! @bookbrunch.bsky.social

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A review of Harriet Armstrong’s To Rest Our Minds and Bodies in this month’s @litreview.bsky.social. @orlandoreade.bsky.social connects the dots and observes the maturity of the work. This is immensely flattering!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Michèle Roberts signing French Cooking for One at Toppings Edinburgh this month.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Our first book of poetry comes out tomorrow. a grammar of the world by Jeanne Benameur translated by Bill Johnston. The perfect book for the end of summer and the end of Women in Translation month.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Surprise! a grammar of the world, by Jeanne Benameur, translated by Bill Johnston, will be out August 28. For once we've got copies months ahead of our planned pub date. The joys of indie publishing - never a dull moment! A Mediterranean book about the sea and the sun for the end of summer.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

What are you reading this Women in Translation month? There is still time to explore our backlist! www.lesfugitives.com/all-books

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Harriet Armstrong, debut author of TO REST OUR MINDS AND BODIES, and Michèle Roberts, author of FRENCH COOKING FOR ONE, will be at @edbookfest.bsky.social in the coming days to discuss their books. Get your tickets here www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

So great to see TROMAB listed in the predictions, but sadly, as a small press, we were not able to enter a book that published in June, and for which we did not have review copies by the end of January (end of the submission window). Hoping to submit this year!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Missed your chance to read May the Tigris Grieve for You by Émilienne Malfatto? Good news - it’s reprinted and we’ve received copies! www.lesfugitives.com/all-books/em...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We have signed copies of To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong on our website! www.lesfugitives.com/2025/harriet...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Thank you to Helen Marten and the Stems book fair. We really enjoyed the opportunity to chat with new and existing readers, and to connect or re-connect with a brilliant bunch of artists and much admired fellow indies!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Harriet Armstrong came by today at Stems Book Fair to sign copies of To Rest Our Minds and Bodies!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

We’ll still be at Stems Book Fair in London (E2 8BD) tomorrow from 11 to 6pm. Come say hi!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

What is a writer’s life, and above all, what is left of it? This book is not a biography, but a quest; an expedition to unearth what remains of the author of Remembrance of Things Past. Order Zombie Proust, by Jérôme Prieur, translated by Nancy Kline here www.lesfugitives.com/2025/jerome-...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Zombie Proust, by Jérôme Prieur, translated by Nancy Kline, is out tomorrow. In this expedition to unearth what remains of the author of Remembrance of Things Past, Prieur materialises the eponymous writer’s body and spirit in short, vivid chapters, rich in detail, wry humour and quirky erudition.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Harriet Armstrong will be talking about To Rest Our Minds and Bodies with other debut authors at The Booking Club LIVE at 21SOHO on July 16. Get your tickets here www.tickettext.co.uk/cHPHYTmiv5

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The news is out! Will we see you @edbookfest.bsky.social this August? Tickets go on sale next week!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Join us at Stems Book Fair in London on 19/20 July. Harriet Armstrong will come by to sign copies of TO REST OUR MINDS AND BODIES on the Saturday afternoon!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A wonderful evening yesterday at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social . Stay tuned for more events to be announced with Harriet Armstrong this summer!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

TO REST OUR MINDS AND BODIES by Harriet Armstrong is out today! Harriet was at Bàrd Books on Tuesday and will be in conversation with Luke Kennard next week at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Head here for tickets www.foyles.co.uk/events/harri...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Join us at Bàrd Books tomorrow at 7pm for a conversation with Harriet Armstrong. Tickets here www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

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