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An award-winning independent publisher of new voices and great books from around the world. TLS

"Two-hour books to be devoured in a single sitting:literary cinema for those fatigued by film."

21/11/2025

Very excited indeed to introduce BO***IR by Sigrún Pálsdóttir, translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith 💛💛

Publishing 7th April 2026, but sent early as always to our beloved subscribers 💌

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Teddý lives with her parents on a farm in the Icelandic wilderness. It’s 1962, and the world is changing, although you wouldn’t know it from the stark quiet of the lava fields and mountains that mark the boundaries of the young woman’s existence. But after two chance encounters, Teddý’s dreams of a world beyond begin to crystallise, albeit in strange and unexpected ways, as we follow one woman’s life over five decades, from farm to city to the skies. Taking us from the grandeur of rural Iceland to the glossy, sticky world of 1970s air travel, via check fraud, thwarted ambition and lost astronauts, Bo***ir is a novel about reinvention, dislocation, and the forceful gravity of the lives and selves we think we’ve left behind.

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Cover design by
Art direction by .b.lloyd

31/10/2025

Really thrilled to have two Peirene titles on this wonderful longlist!

Congratulations to Sara Mesa, .whittemore1, , and all the other longlisted authors and translators 💛💛💛💛

31/10/2025

Very excited to have Eva Meijer visiting in December to celebrate the launch of SEA NOW. Hope to see you there!! 💙💙

Booking links via link in bio 🎟️🏃🏻‍♀️

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The country is flooding. Every day the sea claims another kilometre of land. The prime minister holds a daily press conference. Scientists try to find an explanation, without success. Sheep drown in the fields, weighed down by their waterlogged fleeces. The museums are emptied of their valuable works. Some people stay. Most leave. Once the evacuation is complete, and the rest of the world is already moving on, a climate activist, a young poet and an oceanographer voyage across the new sea. They are drawn back into the heart of a changed nation, seeking what they have lost in the deluge.

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The tour is part of New Dutch Writing, and supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature and The Embassy of The Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is also supported by Arts Council England.

31/10/2025

Finished copies of SEA NOW (out in the world for a week now) looking pretty drop dead gorgeous if we do say so ourselves 🤓🌊💙🐟⛵️

‘One of the unanticipated highlights of my reading year...a fabulist disaster novel, doubling as identity-of-the-nation commentary...playful, with a dry sly omniscient voice...a little bit as though Stephen Baxter’s Flood (2008) (or Japan Sinks) had been rewritten by Italo Calvino....the cumulative effect of this wide-ranging, generous narrative attention is a constant sense of motion, and a lightness of touch that allows Meijer to move smoothly from, say, haunting elegy to academic satire to a more serious intellectual point... Sea Now is consistently fresh and interesting.’
- Niall Harrison, Locus

31/10/2025

Join us in just over two weeks for a free online event to celebrate the launch of the very brilliant IMAGINE BREAKING EVERYTHING by and translated by Ellen Jones 🇨🇴💛

See ya there!! Reserve your spot via the link in our bio 🎟️

‘What makes Imagine Breaking Everything an unforgettable read is the combination of who Melissa is as a character and her voice. Not only is she the rare female protagonist who externalizes her rage, literally punching first so she won’t become the punching bag, but as a first-person narrator she is brutally honest, funny, self-aware, and able to create moments of utter heartbreak and insight while staying true to the rawness of Bogotá slang.’
- Diana Andrade Melgarejo, Latin American Literature Today

Artwork by 💛

09/10/2025

Packing day!! Sending out IMAGINE BREAKING EVERYTHING by early to our beloved subscribers!! 💌

I’m afraid the rest of you will have to wait until 10th November…

Translated by Ellen Jones 💛

18/09/2025

Book lovers of the South West, roll up!!

Come join us in Bath on 8th November to celebrate indie publishing and pick up some killer Christmas presents 📚🎁🤓

Free and everyone welcome 🌱

fugitives.press

See you there 💛

18/09/2025

Book lovers of the South West, roll up!!

Come see us in Bath on 8th November to celebrate indie publishing and pick up some killer Christmas presents 📚🎁🤓

Free and everyone welcome 🌱

fugitives.press

and more!

Hope to see you there 🙋🏻‍♀️💛

18/09/2025

Excited that will be speaking at with on Sunday 12th October!

Hope you see some of you many On The Greenwich Line fans there 💛

18/09/2025

We’re so thrilled that will be coming back to the UK for more SUPPORTING ACT events (many with translator ) in a couple of weeks, thanks to support from Stories from Sweden and and 💛💛💛

Wigtown: Sat 4 Oct, 3pm
London: Mon 6 Oct, 6:30pm
Bristol: Wed 8 Oct, 7pm
Nottingham: Thurs 9 Oct, 7pm
Manchester: Sun 12 Oct, 4:30pm

Agnes Lidbeck fans roll up!! 🎟️

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