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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We are thrilled to share the news that Katy Derbyshire’s translation of Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse has been shortlisted for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social John Calder Translation Prize. This is a new award for English translations of full-length groundbreaking works of literary merit.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

To mark #NationalPoetryDay we’re having a flash sale, with 40% off all poetry titles in our catalogue until midnight on Sunday. Just enter the code npd25 on checkout. prototypepublishing.co.uk/shop/type-1-...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

To celebrate the publication of Mr Outside, Caleb Klaces will be touring the UK, with dates confirmed in London, Edinburgh, York and Manchester, and more venues to be added soon. We very much hope you can join us at one of these events: prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/24/c...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

On 15 Oct, Sulaiman Addonia will be at Bàrd Books with journalist/writer Gary Younge, sharing their perspectives on London, writing, Sudan, the experiences of refugees, & more. It's going to be a brilliant evening. Tickets £5, redeemable against a book: www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

We’re excited to be co-hosting a special event at The Broadway Bookshop as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, with Chloe Aridjis, whose story and essay collection, Dialogue with a Somnambulist, we published in 2021. Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm RSVP: books@broadwaybookshophackney.com

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

We’re delighted to announce the second leg of UK events to mark the recent publication of @jencalleja.bsky.social’s translator memoir Fair. 10 Sept: Brick Lane Bookshop 2 Oct: Voce Books 8 Oct: Collected Books 16 Oct: Veranda Books Details/tickets here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/03/j...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

You can order the collection with a discount of 30% in our summer sale with the code SUMMER30. prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/rock...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Winner of the 2023 Danish Critics Prize, and shortlisted for numerous others. ‘Girlbeast is a fever dream of a novel that put a knot in my stomach. A provocative, vulgar and tender fable about the uneasy ruin of girlhood.’ – Lucy Rose prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/girl... (3/3)

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

In a world that fetishises girlhood, it asks whether a girl be blamed for internalising the roles imposed upon her? Can she wield her youth as power in a system designed to render her powerless? Brave, provocative & unflinching, Girlbeast is a gripping, vital novel. (2/3)

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Girlbeast by Cecilie Lind, translated by Hazel Evans, publishes today. Highly acclaimed in Denmark, Girlbeast is a fearless, unsettling, poetic novel in which power shifts unpredictably, and desire and coercion become indistinguishable. prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/girl... (1/3)

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

On Sunday evening, from 6pm, there will be free readings curated by Eve Esfandiari-Denney and Thea McLachlan, with Ghayath Almadhoun, Brodie Crellin, Imogen Cassels, Will Harris and K Patrick.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We are so looking forward to Stems next weekend, a new book fair curated & hosted by our author Helen Marten at her studio in Haggerston (55 Laburnum Street, London E2 8BD). The fair is free & open to all, and so many of our favourite publishers will be there.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We have three events coming up this week with both Lina and Saskia: at Tenderbooks in London tonight, East Bristol Books in Bristol on Thursday, and West Cork Literary Festival on Saturday.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Interspersed with black-and-white photographs, and written with the same unashamed and unfiltered honesty that defines Scheynius’s photography, Diary of an Ending is an intimate hybrid of memoir and autofiction, a meditation on the passage of time and the transformative power of creativity.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

... with reflective essays written in English five years on, exploring ideas about art and photography, sex and passion, the act of diary-making, destructive relationships, motherhood and home.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Diary of an Ending, the 1st prose work by renowned photographer Lina Scheynius, publishes today. prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/diar... Blurring the boundaries between diary & essay, it explores the break-up of a relationship, combining extracts from Scheynius’s diary (tr. Saskia Vogel)...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Told through a striking combination of text and image, Klaces’ distilled novel explores the stories we tell about our lives, intimacy in crisis, and the fragile line between reality and delusion. You can pre-order it here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/mr-o...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Coming soon: Mr Outside by Caleb Klaces (Oct 2025) We are extremely excited to announce that we will soon be publishing the 2nd novel by Caleb Klaces, following his acclaimed debut Fatherhood, the 1st novel Prototype ever published. Proof copies are here; email admin[at]prototypepublishing.co.uk.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The Uncorrected Independent Publishers Fair at the Peckham Pelican today! 11-6 Books and cold drinks; what more could you need?

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The Uncorrected Independent Publishers' Fair returns this Saturday to the Peckham Pelican, with a wonderful group of indie publishers & great line-up of readers. Come & hang out, have a cold drink, browse the stalls, chat to the publishers, & catch the readings at 2pm. thetangerinepress.com/TUIPF/

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

It's 1 year this month since we published Sulaiman Addonia's The Seers. The audiobook, co-published with @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social, can be downloaded for free til Sunday! Free downloads are limited, so be quick! Enter code PROTOTYPE-100 on checkout www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/t...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

In the words of H. Gareth Gavin, ‘Pleasure Beach does for neon lycra cycling shorts, Nik Naks, and acid trips what Ulysses did for lemon soap: it kaleidoscopes the everyday in a way that remakes the world’ We love this book, and had so much fun launching it in Blackpool and London two years ago.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Happy Bloomsday & happy 2-year anniversary to @helenpalmer.pharmsky.app's Pleasure Beach! Set on 16 June 1999, the novel follows the interconnecting journeys & thoughts of 3 young women over the course of 24 hrs/18 chptrs structured the same way as Ulysses. prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/plea...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Special event on Monday (16 June) with prototype author Caleb Klaces discussing dementia and storytelling in relation to his brilliant forthcoming novel Mr Outside. Full details and tickets at psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/even...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

We are excited to be taking part in a new book fair curated/hosted by our friend & author Helen Marten at her studio in Hackney. STEMS is taking place on Sat 19 & Sun 20 July, 11–6pm, with readings on Sunday eve from Ghayath Almadhoun, Brodie Crellin, Imogen Cassels, Will Harris and K Patrick. 🔥

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Happy publication day to @jencalleja.bsky.social, whose "audacious, polemical, essential" memoir FAIR: The Life-Art of Translation is out now. We are incredibly proud to publish Jen's work, across forms and genres, and cannot wait for people to read this book. pic: @jorgeantonystride.bsky.social

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

We are delighted that Hasib Hourani's 'rock flight', has been shortlisted for the 2025 Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection. Congratulations Hasib. This is a vital collection, at a time when speaking out matters more than ever. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

With a few weeks to go til we publish Lina Scheynius’s Diary of an Ending, we’re excited to share some events coming up in July, with both Lina and translator Saskia Vogel. These events are part of Stories From Sweden, supported by the Swedish Arts Council & the Swedish Embassy, UK.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Weaving multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and documenting, the poems in Silk Work are an exercise in language’s inbuilt, radiant futility, which is both its suffering and its joy. prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/silk...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Happy publication day to Imogen Cassels, whose stunning debut collection Silk Work is out now. We’ll be launching the book tonight @burleyfisher.bsky.social with Phoebe Stuckes & Sam Weselowski. You can order your copy at prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/silk... or from your local bookshop

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

*Bristol-based friends!* Imogen Cassels' debut collection publishes next week, launching on 15 May @burleyfisher.bsky.social. On Weds 28 May, Imogen will be heading to Bristol for an event at the wonderful East Bristol Books with Ralf Webb. Tickets at www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Interspersed with b&w photos & written with the same unashamed honesty that defines her photography, Diary of an Ending is an intimate hybrid of memoir & autofiction, a meditation on the passage of time & the power of creativity. Pre-orders at prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/diar... (3/3)

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

... written in Swedish and translated by Saskia Vogel – with reflective essays written in English 5 years on, exploring ideas about art and photography, sex and passion, the act of diary-making, destructive relationships, motherhood and home. (2/3)

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We are excited to announce the upcoming publication of Diary of an Ending, the first hybrid prose work by renowned photographer Lina Scheynius. Blurring the boundaries between diary & essay, the book explores the break-up of a relationship, combining extracts from Scheynius’s diary... (1/3)

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Tomorrow! Free Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair @poetrysociety.bsky.social 12-6.30pm Plus catch us on the publishing panel at 5pm

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

We're delighted to announce the UK tour for Jen Calleja's remarkable translation memoir FAIR: The Life-Art of Translation. Come and join is if you can!

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We are very happy to announce that thanks to the support of the funding body Necessity our 2022 anthology Strangers Within is back in print. It’s been sold out for over a year & we’ve had frequent requests from readers & booksellers & are so pleased to have been able to make it available again.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter is back in stock! ed. Therese Henningsen & Juliette Joffé, with a new epilogue by Mireille Gansel prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/stra...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We'll be launching the book @burleyfisher.bsky.social on Thursday 15 May, with Phoebe Stuckes (and Sam Weselowski, and you can register now for your free ticket: burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Next month we publish Imogen Cassels' stunning debut collection, Silk Work. You can read more and pre-order your copy here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/silk...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Proof copies of Jen Calleja’s Fair: The Life-Art of Translation are here! Publishing on 29 May. Booksellers, reviewers, bloggers, let us know if you are interested in a copy!

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The books can be ordered separately for £12 each... Book of Mutter: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/book... Appendix Project: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/appe... ... or as a set for just £20: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/book...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Today we publish the 1st UK editions of Kate Zambreno’s seminal texts on writing, photography, memory and grief: Book of Mutter & Appendix Project. These interconnected works circle around the death of Zambreno’s mother, combining varied textual forms into distinctive philosophical meditations.

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

'Transient ideas and the Alps are closely related. ... I find these short sprinklings of ideas useful to capture the details of a moment.' An extract of Zsuzsanna Gahse's Mountainish, trans. Katy Derbyshire, is now up on Tenement Press's Rehearsal blog: tenementpress.com/Mountainish

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is the 4th book we have done together, starting with the poetry collection Serious Justice in 2016, a short story collection in 2020, the novel Vehicle in 2022, and now Fair, which blurs the lines between memoir, autofiction, satire and polemic. prototypepublishing.co.uk/artist/jen-c...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The book will also be available in a limited special edition, available exclusively from our website and via independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland for Independent Bookshop Week (14–21 June). prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

*COVER(S) REVEAL* We are extremely excited to share the covers for Jen Calleja's forthcoming book Fair: The Life-Art of Translation, which we are publishing on 29 May. Read all about it here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair/

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

In conversation with Adam Biles, Sulaiman shares the story behind his bold, unfiltered novel—written as a single, unbroken paragraph—through the voice of Hannah, an Eritrean refugee navigating love, loss, sexuality, and identity on the streets of London. open.spotify.com/episode/1ciI...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

'Sensational...Addonia's mesmerizing prose drives the narrative from one carnal thought to the next... a passionate and seductive tale of resilience'. An amazing ⭐'d review in Publishers Weekly for The Seers, publishing in the US and Canada in April. prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/the-...

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Brilliantly translated by Katy Derbyshire, Mountainish is the first of Gahse’s books to be published in the UK, and we’re very excited to be introducing her singular voice to a new readership. prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/moun...

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