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Love, lust, adulthood and an ancient Fiat in one long hot Maltese summer
School’s out for summer, and for our unnamed narrator, that means three months away from his physics high school students to tinker with his ancient Fiat 131 and fret about his all-consuming obsession: Sarah, a tempestuous artist he met online. They sleep together, they text obsessively, but as July’s barbecues and boat trips segue into August’s festi, their intimate moments always reset into platonic disappointment, and she increasingly ghosts him in favour of an ever-changing group of new besties.
A sensation on its home island, this book gives poignant voice to a regular guy in his early thirties, trying to get a grip on love, life and growing up, and it paints a high-octane portrait of what it means to live in the hedonistic, overcrowded, workaholic, claustrophobic, contradictory mind-blast that is Malta.
You Know The Sun Bothers Me was shortlisted for the 2023 National Book Prize and the author won Malta’s National Book Prize for Best emerging Author in 2024. It is the winner of a PEN Translates award.
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Love, lust, adulthood and an ancient Fiat in one long hot Maltese summer
School’s out for summer, and for our unnamed narrator, that means three months away from his physics high school students to tinker with his ancient Fiat 131 and fret about his all-consuming obsession: Sarah, a tempestuous artist he met online. They sleep together, they text obsessively, but as July’s barbecues and boat trips segue into August’s festi, their intimate moments always reset into platonic disappointment, and she increasingly ghosts him in favour of an ever-changing group of new besties.
A sensation on its home island, this book gives poignant voice to a regular guy in his early thirties, trying to get a grip on love, life and growing up, and it paints a high-octane portrait of what it means to live in the hedonistic, overcrowded, workaholic, claustrophobic, contradictory mind-blast that is Malta.
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On the hottest day of one of the hottest summers anyone can remember, journalist Federico Desideri is sent on an assignment: to interview Italy’s latest Oscar-winning film director. But in Rome. A world away from the reassuring familiarity of his native Milan.
When the director turns out to be elusive, and the Romans as rough as their reputation, Federico falls in with Barry Volpicelli, a seductive, fast-talking, America-obsessed rogue and supposed inspiration for the winning movie’s lead character. Instead of nailing the interview, he finds himself in Paradiso— a crumbling seaside estate with an eccentric cast of inhabitants who seem frozen in time.
Combining the style and charm of Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty with the wit of Alan Bennett, this social comedy for the social media generation is a blisteringly funny exploration of reality, illusion and the enduring myth of the Eternal City.
“The book everyone is talking about. By our sharpest writer, who is as cynical as he is tender” LUCA GUADAGNINO, Director of CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
“No Italian writer for a couple of generations has found such a pitch-perfect balance between cattiness and literary elegance and depth.” VINCENZO LATRONICO, Author of PERFECTION
“A darkly comic journey through the Roman night, among eccentric characters and disenchanted glamour” CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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249 pages
Described as a Fellini film colliding with The White Lotus, or Paolo Sorrentino colliding with Alan Bennett, the book is a darkly comic satire on power, cultural currency and the enduring legacy of The Eternal City.
On the hottest day of one of the hottest summers anyone has ever known, young journalist Federico Desideri is sent on an apparently routine assignment; to snatch an interview with Italy’s latest Oscar winning film director. But in Rome. Far from the comforts of his native Milan. When the director turns out to be elusive, and the Romans as rough as their reputation, Federico falls in with Barry Volpicelli, the rumoured inspiration behind the winning movie’s lead character - a seductive, fast-talking, America-obsessed rogue, and instead of finding his interviewee, he finds himself in Paradiso—Barry’s crumbling country estate on the Lazio coast, with an eccentric cast of inhabitants who seem frozen in time. Alan Bennett meets Fellini at a shabby, Italian White Lotus in this novel which is a satirical bildungsroman through the nature of illusion, escapism and the enduring myth of the Eternal City. As Federico navigates the absurdities, passions, and dangers of this apparent paradise, it starts to look more and more like purgatory, and he begins to question how he can find his way out.
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Stylish, philosophical literary noir against a burning Athenian background.
Washed-up writer and wanderer of Athens’ nightlife, Michalis Krokos is happier watching the Johnny Depp trial than getting down to his next book. But a visit from a mysterious prosecutor with news that his friend Rebecca, s sharp-tongued trans sex worker is in trouble with a violent far-right group shakes him out of his apathy. Krokos agrees to go undercover as a fake news copywriter inside the group’s inner circle: write a few lines, steal a few secrets. But what begins as a rescue mission soon spirals into sinister blackmail plots and political paranoia.
Darkly comic literary noir and portrait of post-crisis Greece, Deepfake explores truth, loyalty and the absurd theatre of modern politics, against the background of a sweltering, sleepless, high-summer Athens.
Deepfake was shortlisted for the 2025 European Union Prize for Literature.
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252 pages
Stylish, philosophical literary noir against a burning Athenian background
Washed-up writer and wanderer of Athens’ nightlife, Michalis Krokos is happier watching the Johnny Depp trial than getting down to his next book. But a visit from a mysterious prosecutor with news that his friend Rebecca, s sharp-tongued trans sex worker is in trouble with a violent far-right group shakes him out of his apathy. Krokos agrees to go undercover as a fake news copywriter inside the group’s inner circle: write a few lines, steal a few secrets. But what begins as a rescue mission soon spirals into sinister blackmail plots and political paranoia.
Darkly comic literary noir and portrait of post-crisis Greece, Deepfake explores truth, loyalty and the absurd theatre of modern politics, against the background of a sweltering, sleepless, high-summer Athens.
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When she learns of his death in Cameroon, her world collapses for the second time and in her desperate attempt to repatriate her father’s body to France, Annabella is forced to confront the family secrets, lies and deep trauma at the heart of her existence. This stunning debut explores grief, family relationships, personal truths and the post-colonial condition with beautiful, urgent writing. It was the winner of the 2024 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and the 2024 Prix Transfuge du Meilleur Premier Roman.
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One night in Madrid , two hapless chancers, and a greyhound called Cromwell.
One night in Madrid. The one the tourists, and plenty of Madrileños never see. The Madrid of poker games, scams and dodgy deals. Of flyovers, bus stations and industrial estates. Of gamblers, gangsters, and the odd saint, who might just perform a miracle. The Madrid of Sánchez and Nikki.
In her latest book, Esther García Llovet follows this not quite Bonnie & Clyde pair of chancers on the brink as they desperately hunt down a greyhound called Cromwell, who might just be the answer to all their problems. With her razor-sharp language, her inimitable eye for the absurd, and her surreal style, that feels like David Lynch after too much vermut, García Llovet reveals herself as a cinematic storyteller par excellence and an unrivalled, passionate portraitist of the Spanish capital and the characters who live in its shadows.
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In tired, hot Paris at the end of August, a group of friends, who’d rather still be at the sea, meet for a dinner in one couple’s apartment.
Taking us behind the shutters of the Sixth Arrondissement, with a cast of characters that both delight and repel, fractured relationships, manipulation, bad behaviour and desperation are all laid bare in this very contemporary take on a Parisian huis clos story.
What starts as just a little dinner ends up having monumental consequences for everyone.
“This novel is a road movie, very traditionally Spanish, where the main characters desperately search, under the Madrid sky, for a piece of heaven that they’re never going to reach” ESQUIRE
“Wonderful… Please don’t miss out on reading this book” EL PAÍS
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Stylish, philosophical literary noir against a burning Athenian background
“Full of soul, with characters who are real, relatable and flawed. I loved Just a Little Dinner.” THE TIMES
“In the cinema and the theatre, feasts that descend into disaster are a distinctly French speciality. Cécile Tlili manages to reinvent this tradition with her first novel.” PARIS MATCH
Shortlisted for the 2024 PrixGoncourt du Premier Roman
Winner 2023 Prix Littéraire Gisèle Halimi for women’s writing.
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Faysal receives a mysterious letter about the death of aunt he can’t remember. Leaving his lover and his life in Europe behind, he returns to the village of his birth in Palestine and to his family’s extraordinary, deserted house, the palace on the higher hill. With a backdrop of violence and the permanent threat from settlers, Faysal wanders the once-lavish rooms as characters from the past return to shed light on his family story and on the story of his people.
In beautiful, angry prose, Karim Kattan introduces us to an intimate Palestine of the imagination where dreams and nightmares are in constant conflict. With hints of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Brideshead Revisited, he gives a nuanced deeply moving vision of the tragedy of war and a picture of his homeland that feels entirely new to English-speaking readers.
The book won the 2021 Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie.
“Absolument merveilleux” JMG LeClezio, winner Nobel Prize for Literature, Prix Renaudot
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A crooked cop on a punk, picaresque chase through Benidorm's underbelly on the trail of Reggie Kray's cigarette lighter.
Meet Michela - English gangster father, flamenco dancer mother - a hard, uncompromising police officer, operating on the shadier side of the law. In the company of this unorthodox, magnetically compelling character, cult writer Esther García Llovet takes us on a breath-taking, high-speed, anarchic romp through the underbelly of the pearl of the Costa Brava, Benidorm, on the hunt for Reggie Kray’s stolen cigarette lighter.
Beyond the sunburn and all-day fry-ups, in casinos, bars that are fronts for money laundering and flashy high society parties, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters: English gangsters, Russian mafiosi, chancers, no-hopers, and low-life of all complexions in this unconventional yet literary thriller. With a turn of phrase that always astonishes, an eye for detail that is as forensic as it is cinematic, a sense of humour as dry as a glass of fino, and a wilful desire to break conventional genres, Llovet’s book feels like the best of Almodóvar in surreal, novel form.
“Washed-up Brits, local lowlifes and a Kray twin’s lighter: noir novel Spanish Beauty shines fond light on Benidorm” THE OBSERVER
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When it was built in the 1950s, nothing symbolised Cyprus entering the modern world like the Ledra Palace Hotel. In Constantia Soteriou’s jewel of a novella, the ambitions and shortcomings of the island’s turbulent twentieth century are played out among its occupants. Among them we meet the king in exile who needs to drown his sorrows with a drink disguised to look like tea; the porter who, among the English roses of the hotel's gardens, secretly plants a rose from his village to make his rosebud infusions with; the UN officer who drinks lemonade to deal with the heat and the lies; and the cleaning lady who always carries her holy water with her. They are reluctant actors in history, evocatively captured in this moving, personal, and highly original portrait of civil strife and division.
“Constantia Souteriou’s Brandy Sour tells guest’s stories in a slim, experimental novel whose flavours bounce off the page and straight into the mouth” THE SUNDAY TIMES
“This is, quite simply, one of the most powerful books ever to come out of our island...
In the powerful vignettes of Brandy Sour, we remember the dreams and struggles of our past. We rediscover our resilience, our perseverance. We see the lives of our parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, sisters and brothers. And, ultimately, we find our own selves reflected on every page.
Brandy Sour is the story of the people of Cyprus. The real people. The real story." CYPRUS MAIL
Brandy Sour won the 2023 National Book Prize in Cyprus and Constantia Soteriou won the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
“Flavours bounce off the page and straight into the mouth” THE SUNDAY TIMES
“This is, quite simply, one of the most powerful books ever to come out of our island” CYPRUS MAIL
2023 Cyprus National Book Prize Winner
In this tour de force of auto-journalism, Anna Pazos explores the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. We are taken on a journey from the ‘Mediterranean mediocrity’ of bourgeois Barcelona life, through Anna’s unstructured Erasmus days in Thessaloniki, her first steps in journalism in Jerusalem, her sail across the Atlantic with an unsuitable lover, and to post-MeToo, pre-pandemic New York. In 2021, back in Barcelona, she turns her analytical attention on her family, on post-2017 Catalan society, and on her place within it.
This stunning debut was longlisted for the Premi Finestres 2023 and voted best Catalan Book of the Year by El Pais.
“I’m thrilled to know that Anna Pazos’ brilliant memoir is coming out in English! Tumultuous, funny, and secretly sad, in the way that growing up is.” Vicenzo Latronico, author of the International Booker Prize shortlisted PERFECTION
“It powerfully conveys the anxiety, chaos, and disillusionment of a world hurtling towards collapse” Julià Guillamon, LA VANGUARDIA
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Longlisted for the Premi Finestres 2023 and voted best Catalan Book of the Year by EL PAÍS