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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Travelling Through the Land of My Ancestors
Author: Louise ErdrichFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 152 pagesPublished: Daunt Books, United Kingdom, 2023In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country she travels, with her 18-month-old daughter, to the terrain her...
The City and the World
In The City and the World Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world - from Berlin to Las Vegas...
Can the Monster Speak?: A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front...
Rave
From the cathartic release on the dance floor to the intense conversations in corners of nightclubs and the after-parties in the light of dawn, this exhilarating, fragmentary novel captures the...
Zone
Francis Mirkovic, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Handcuffed to the luggage rack above him is a...
Dysphoria Mundi
In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the...
The Edge of the Alphabet
Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking...
In Memory of Memory
With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository...
Affinities
In Affinities, Brian Dillon explores images and artists he is drawn to or loves, and tries to analyse the attraction. What do we mean when we claim affinity with an...
An Apartment on Uranus
Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer...
Bonsai
Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples,they lie to each other,...
Emergency
Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone under lockdown, awoman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a...
A Man's Place
Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown...
One Boat
On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast - the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself...
Flower
'I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.' Flower is a book of realistic...
A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture
'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,' says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language , the lecture he delivered...
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to capture...
Memory Theatre
A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant...
A Spring of Love
Esther Williams is thirty and single. She lives with her grandmother in a small house and her life is one of routine and order; she takes a seaside holiday each...
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of...
The Deserters
Fleeing a nameless war, an unknown soldier emerges from deep within the Mediterranean scrubland, dirty and exhausted. A chance meeting forces him to rethink his journey, and the price he...
A State of Siege
Magical powers inhabit the land to which Malfred Signal retires - freed at last of her responsibilities to a dying mother and the generations of young ladies who have learned...
Journeys and Flowers
A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in...
Green Water, Green Sky
With a foreword by Brandon Taylor. An elegant, melancholic novella about memory, family and the meaning of home. This is the tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy,...
The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals
The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals is the only definitive reference on all the land-breeding mammals recorded in the New Zealand region (including the New Zealand sector of Antarctica). It...
Real Life
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside...
Happiness, As Such
'Dear Michele, she wrote, I'm writing principally to tell you that your father is sick. Go visit him. He says he hasn t seen you for days.' Michele is the...
Headshot
Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of...
Bolt from the Blue
In Bolt from the Blue , Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, charts the relationship between a mother and daughter over the course of thirty-odd...
Compass
As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the...
Portrait of an Island on Fire
A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history....
Discord
Jeremy Cooper, the author of Brian, returns with Discord, a subjective journey through the world of classical music. On a night in August, an audience at the Royal Albert Hall...
The City and the World
In The City and the World Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world - from Berlin to Las Vegas...
My Documents
Archived in a folder on award-winning author Alejandro Zambra's desktop are eleven stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers. Intimate, mysterious, and uncanny, these stories reveal a...
Diego Garcia: A Novel
Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s brother. Every day they try to get to the library to write their...
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee
In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torncountry, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when...
Immanuel
In Immanuel , winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in Winchester. As McNaught moved away from the faith...
Bricks and Mortar
Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of...
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic...
Precarious Lease
In her extraordinary non-fiction debut, Jacqueline Feldman tells the story of Le Bloc, a legendary squat situated at the far edge of Paris, near where the banlieue begins. Opened in...
Seeing Further
On a journey through the south-east of Hungary some years back, Esther Kinsky finds herself in a small town in the Alfoeld, the Great Hungarian Plain. Resignation and a glorification...
Intervals
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne...
The Variations
Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes's Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries...
Rombo
In May and September 1976, two severe earthquakes ripped through north-eastern Italy, causing severe damage to the landscape and its population.About a thousand people died under the rubble, tens of...
Childish Literature
How do we write about the singular experience of parenthood? Written in a 'state of attachment', or 'under the influence' of fatherhood, Childish Literature is an eclectic guide for novice...
The Fallen
Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him. Mariana, the mother, is unwell and forced to relinquish her control over the home to...
The White Review Writing in Translation Anthology
The White Review Anthology of Writing in Translation will bring the most innovative and exciting international writers working today to an Anglophone audience. The anthology will place the work of...
An Inconvenient Place
What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of which have been erased? Ukraine, for a long time, has been filled with these 'inconvenient places'...