Contemporary literary fiction & non-fiction translated from the French. Modern classics and English originals.
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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-...
New on the podcast 🎧: Michèle Roberts talks to Alice Blackhurst about her Bookshop bestsellers, FRENCH COOKING FOR ONE and FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO. (Both published by @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social)
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Shiny Tuesday: @annabookbel.bsky.social
reviews Wilderness of Mirrors by Olufemi Terry, from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/wilderness-o...
Read an extract from WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS (@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social), the forthcoming debut by @oluterry.bsky.social. The novel follows a Creole named Emil, experiencing the whirlwinds of young adulthood in the fictional post-apartheid South African city, Stadmutter.
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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.
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...
Delighted to announce we will be at Offprint London next week. Come say hi, grab yourself a book!
Join Harriet Armstrong with the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted cohort for a celebration at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social on 13 May. Follow the link for tickets. events.bl.uk/events/the-d...
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!
Reading in bed with Ginny @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
On the eve of International Dylan Thomas Day, meet the six shortlisted authors for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, the world’s largest l
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Review by Annabel
Les Fugitives is a small indie press that initially specialised in French translations, of both literary fiction and nonfiction (see here). Lately, they've widened their scope to
