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03/10/2025

Stefan Zweig’s Last Miracle - stories never before collected together in English, these five tales of family breakdown, political struggle, and monomaniacal obsession are from one of the defining voices of the European Jewish diaspora, and of the 20th Century. Translated by Anthea Bell, Eden & Cedar Paul

The Last Miracle stands alongside Zweig’s extraordinary body of work, including biographies of titanic figures from Nietzsche to Marie Antoinette, prescient historical and political thought in The World of Yesterday, and some of Europe’s most compelling 20th century fiction, in Beware of Pity, as well as so much more. All these are available right now…

19/09/2025

Lala Romano’s In Farthest Seas, a Pushkin Press classic translated by

Upon the death of her husband, Innocenzo Monti, Lala Romano sought to distil the essence of their long life together. The result was In Farthest Seas: a piercingly intimate retelling of the first four years and final four months of their relationship, built from share-like moments of connection and revelation.

With precise artistry, Romano braids together seemingly minor details - the expressiveness of Innocenzo’s hands, the beauty of his face in sleep, a fleeting instance of pallor - that come to reveal the barest truths of life and death. Unsparing yet tender, minimal yet monumental, In Farthest Seas is a startlingly moving elegy for a great love by a vital Italian writer.

‘Her language is incredible, essential in its quality… An extraordinarily powerful book’ - Jhumpa Lahiri

11/09/2025

Half Light by is OUT TODAY!! 🌈

‘A stunning novel, gorgeously written. Rao deeply understands the human heart in all its frailty, cruelty and abundant promise’ -

High in the mountains of Darjeeling, a landslide traps the guests and staff of a crumbling hotel. Cooped up inside, two men exchange lingering glances. For Neville, this is one of many thrilling encounters - urgent kisses in stairwells and parked cars. But for hotel employee Pavan, their connection threatens to unravel everything he has kept hidden.

Years later, their paths collide once more, surrounded by the towering skyscrapers and ghostly smog of Mumbai. Neville is now a restless graduate, adrift in the city, while Pavan has started a new life, away from the hills. When Neville strides into his workplace demanding a meeting, their flirtation turns fraught, and long-buried secrets threaten to tumble into the light.

Set on the cusp of India’s landmark ruling to decriminalise homosexuality, this is a tender, richly atmospheric and elegantly wry story of outlawed desire - and the fragile hope for a life beyond concealment.

10/09/2025

03/09/2025

🎓Pushkin Press Personal Curriculum🎓

Classes in session:

Biology 101: Why Fish Don’t Exist by 🧬
Intro to Coding: Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman 👾
English Literature: Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton 🌒
Surrealist Art History: Hidden Faces by Salvador Dalí and Goose of Hermogenes by Ithell Colquhoun 🪿
Mythical Zoology: Troll by Johanna Sinisalo 👹
Drama Studies 1901: Edith Holler by 🎭
Law of War: The Writers’ Castle by Uwe Neumahr 🧑‍⚖️
Japanese Criminology: The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo 🔪
Vampiric History: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu 🧛‍♀️
Film Studies 1954: Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac 🎥
Philosophy of Friendship: The Hedgehog’s Dilemma by Toon Tellegen 🦔
Adultery Tragedy: Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane 💋

(P.S. if you’re looking for some more academic inspo this back to school season, drop a research topic in the comments and we’ll get back to you with our recommendations!! 📖)

29/08/2025

Ellen Ullman’s Close to the Machine is OUT NOW as a Pushkin Press Classic 👾

A cult classic memoir of the internet revolution, written by a female programmer living in San Francisco, with an introduction by Jaron Lanier, one of the founders of the field of VR. Humane, insightful, and beautifully written.

Your perfect next read if you’re a fan of Benjamín Labatut’s The MANIAC.

19/08/2025

🌞Need some summer reading inspiration?! Here are the books at the top of our Pushkin Press staff’s TBRs 📚📚
Spot any you’ve read?! 📖

15/08/2025

In the wonderful words of Julia Sanches, ‘translated fiction is a fact of literature… a canon without translated literature is undernourished’.
This we wanted to spotlight the wonderful translators who make it possible for readers to access essential literature. Swipe for a handful of Pushkin’s incredible translators and their works 💌

14/08/2025

Happy UK publication day to The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa! 🕰️

Knives Out meets Groundhog Day in this Mystery & Thriller pick for August 🔪🔪

‘Smart, fast-paced, and seriously hard to put down’ - Dua Lipa’s

OUT NOW GO GO GO 🧍‍♂️💀7️⃣🕣

12/08/2025

🌞✨ litfic summer mood boards ✨🌞

🥂COOKING IN THE WRONG CENTURY - A sharp, stylish satire of a dinner party gone gloriously awry. For fans of PERFECTION and anyone who’s ever feared a ten-stage recipe

🏜️ELEGY, SOUTHWEST - A haunting, luminous love story set against the vast backdrop of the American Southwest, praised by Leslie Kamison as ‘tremendously moving’

🐚SO PEOPLE KNOW IT’S ME - A young offender imprisoned off the coast of Naples looks out over the cruel, glittering sea and dreams of a better life in this ‘extraordinary tale of crime and punishment’ ()

Which one will you be packing in your beach bag this summer? 📚

27/07/2025

Happy birthday Helen Wolff! The Côte d’Azur will always and forever be yours 🌅

If you’re still yet to read her masterpiece, Background for Love is now in paperback! It’s a lushly atmospheric, irresistible story of passion and self-discovery, on the cusp of disaster - based on the author’s own early romance with famed publisher Kurt Wolff - and translated by her grandson Tristan Wolff. And, if you wanted a companion piece, we’d recommend Alba de Céspedes’ Forbidden Notebook, a summer read, currently 99p on ebook 😋

24/07/2025

We took The Summer I Turned Pretty and We Were Liars and made it ✨literary✨ - Conrad Fisher wishes he was smart (/pretentious) enough to read these xoxo
Pushkin’s two latest summer classics will take you right to the Cape Cod shoreline. Choose Charles Simmons’ Salt Water, a witty, elegiac coming-of-age story about a love triangle and its devastating consequences, or Henry Beston’s The Outermost House, a poetic account of a solitary year spent observing wild beauty.