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Fitzcarraldo Editions new books

Fitzcarraldo Editions new books. Which new novels, poetry, and literary non-fiction are being published by Fitzcarraldo Editions? Who is the writer or author of the book? What is the subject or theme? When are the books published?

Fitzcarraldo Editions information

Fitzcarraldo Editions is an independent publisher from England, specialising in contemporary fiction and long-form essays. Founded in 2014, it focuses on ambitious, imaginative and innovative writing, both in translation and in the English language. The series, designed by Ray O’Meara, are published as paperback originals with French flaps, using a custom serif typeface called Fitzcarraldo.

Which new novels and other books are being published by Fitzcarraldo Editions?

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Sleep Gate

  • Author: Sylvia Legris (Canada)
  • Sylvia Legris Sleep Gate reviewBook type: poems
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: November 19, 2026
  • Length: 80 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 12.99
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  • Content: In Sleep Gate, Sylvia Legris descends into biological dreaming itself: the sleep beneath sleep, where ‘the dream under the dream / is the dream of plants’. Taking up Inger Christensen’s summons to ‘dream our way inward’, and H.D.’s insistence that the dream is ‘no poetic phantasy / but a biological reality’, these poems dissolve the waking world into the fabric of sleep, drawing the natural and the built alike into its slow respiration…read on >

A Christmas Story

  • Author: Alejeandro Zambra (Chile)
  • Alejandro Zambra A Christmas Story reviewBook type: story
  • English tranlation: Megan McDowell
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: November 19, 2026
  • Length: 64 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 10.99
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  • Content: In the winter of 2002, an aspiring writer is hired to review books for the cultural pages of a Santiago newspaper. What follows is an apprenticeship with his editor, David Tightwad: columns filed at midnight, two-hour arguments over a single adjective, long evenings drinking beer and talking about literature. Tightwad edits his protegé’s sentences, his commas, his enthusiasms and – on one unforgettable occasion – his facial hair. Then something small and unforgivable takes place, and the two men stop speaking. Twenty years later, over cold pizza in Mexico City, they try to work out what happened…read on >

Two Women

  • Author: Jacqueline Rose (England)
  • Jacqueline Rose Two Women reviewBook type: English novel, feminist novel
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: November 6, 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14.99 / £ 8.99
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  • Content: In Two Women, Jacqueline Rose fictionalizes and intertwines the lives of two remarkable figures whose stories trace the contours of the twentieth century: Edith Stein, the German-Jewish philosopher, Catholic convert and saint; and Gillian Rose, philosopher of German-Jewish thought, also a convert, and Jacqueline’s sister. Through a luminous weaving of fiction and history, Rose traces the parallels and distances between these women – their intellect, faith, suffering and courage…read on >

Listen to Me

Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 15

  • Gertrude Stein Listen to MeAuthor: Gertrude Stein (United States)
  • Book type: lectures
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: November 5, 2026
  • Length: 328 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14,99 
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  • Content: In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking work The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year she was invited to return to the United States for the first time since she departed for France in 1903, to give a series of lectures on art and literature. Newly famous, Stein delivered her lectures to packed audiences at universities, galleries, members’ clubs and public spaces up and down the country…read on >

The Floating World

  • Author: Ben Eastham (England)
  • Ben Eastham The Floating World reviewBook type: English debut novel
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: October 8, 2026
  • Length: 276 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14.99
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  • Content: On a remote island in the Aegean, a billionaire named Morel is building a refuge for the super-rich from the chaos consuming the outside world. When a struggling journalist is hired to work on the spectacular exhibition that will inaugurate this exclusive new utopia, he jumps at the chance to restart a career that stopped with the death of his wife. Yet he comes to suspect that beneath the dazzling surface of this collaboration between art and power run currents of real violence…read on >

The Mulai

  • Author: Munir Hachemi (Spain)
  • Munir Hachemi The Mulai reviewBook type: metafiction novel, Spanish novel
  • Original: En árbol viene (2025)
  • English translation: Julia Sanches
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: July 16, 2026
  • Length: 176 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 12.99
  • Buying options >
  • Content: An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community, a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth. Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable…read on >

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Gertrude Stein – Listen to Me

Gertrude Stein Listen to Me review and information book with lectures by the American writer. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the book written by Gertrude Stein, in the Classics series, November 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “A treasure chest of pioneering, valuable, mind-expanding writing.” (Deborah Levy, author of My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein)
  • “Every writer who lingers over Stein’s sentences is apt to feel a little stab of shame over the heedless predictability of his own.” (Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker)

Gertrude Stein Listen to Me

Listen to Me

Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 15

  • Author: Gertrude Stein (United States)
  • Book type: lectures
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: November 5, 2026
  • Length: 328 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14,99 
  • Buying Options >

Blurb of the Book with lectures by Gertrude Stein

In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking work The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year she was invited to return to the United States for the first time since she departed for France in 1903, to give a series of lectures on art and literature. Newly famous, Stein delivered her lectures to packed audiences at universities, galleries, members’ clubs and public spaces up and down the country.

The lectures are vital and provocative works which articulate the legendary writer’s thoughts on the effect of modernism on literary form, the relationship between narrative and history, and between a writer, their work and its audience. In her trademark style she meditates on the creative possibilities of repetition, the relationship of artistic creations to time, as well as her ambivalence toward her own literary fame and the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life.

Listen to Me brings Stein’s sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.

Gertrude Stein was born February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She was one of the original American Modernists. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice B. Toklas. Formally groundbreaking works like Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914) and The Making of Americans (1925) established her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas made her an international celebrity. As an experimental writer she has been an inspiration to countless novelists and poets, from Ernest Hemingway and Edith Sitwell to Jack Kerouac and Robert Duncan. She died at the age of 72 on July 27, 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.

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Sylvia Legris – Sleep Gate

Sylvia Legris Sleep Gate review and information about the book with poems by the Canadian author. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the book by written by Sylvia Legris, the poet from Canada, November 19, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Sylvia Legris Sleep Gate reviews and information

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  • “As a poet, Legris is a master of the curving tangent, working her way around a central theme while simply inclining, dropping clippings, allowing the reader to follow, suspended, her careful meanderings, often grounded by a hard-working title or subtle allusion.” (Paul J. Pastor, Los Angeles Review of Books)
  • “What a mistake it was to take a short break after reading page 88. To stay with Legris’ voice is to subject oneself to a willed hypnosis that one must snap out of to put the book down mid-read. Sleep Gate is the beneficiary of this voice, at once mercurially dense, nimble, sonically effortless and spectrally haunting. The paucity of verbs in this collection is a remarkable demonstration that the mind’s visual apparatus has its own action, flow, rhythm and pathos. I think this is what it means to be a visionary. Sleeping is one third of our lives; Sleep Gate, with its enchantingly frosty music, is an urgent message that we not waste that third.” (Oluwaseun Olayiwola, author of Strange Beach)

Sylvia Legris Sleep Gate

Sleep Gate

  • Author: Sylvia Legris (Canada)
  • Book type: poems
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: November 19, 2026
  • Length: 80 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 12.99
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Blurb of the book with poems by Sylvia Legris

In Sleep Gate, Sylvia Legris descends into biological dreaming itself: the sleep beneath sleep, where ‘the dream under the dream / is the dream of plants’. Taking up Inger Christensen’s summons to ‘dream our way inward’, and H.D.’s insistence that the dream is ‘no poetic phantasy / but a biological reality’, these poems dissolve the waking world into the fabric of sleep, drawing the natural and the built alike into its slow respiration.

Animating a whole taxonomy of sleepers – a ruby-throated hummingbird whose dream is a nest ‘hinging on spider silk’, a honeybee with ‘perfect recall of citrus one thousand and fifty-seven flowers ago’, an earthworm fleeing ‘by slow peristaltic wave’ – Legris follows sleep through phylum and season. Sensuous, Latinate and strange, this extraordinary collection captures the disjunctive, jump-cutting logic of dreams, leaping from a time before ‘the clouds are inventoried’ to winter’s ‘gnashing bruxism’, and assembles the world, as one does on waking, through distortion and towards clarity.

Sylvia Legris is born in 1960 and origintes from Winnipeg, Canada. Her poetry collections include The Principle of Rapid Peering, Garden Physic, The Hideous Hidden, Pneumatic Antiphonal and Nerve Squall, for which she was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Alejandro Zambra – A Christmas Story

Alejandro Zambra A Christmas Story review and  book by the Chilean writer. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the book by written by Alejandro Zambra, November 19, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “It is unusual for a footnote to transform a text radically, but that is what happens here… The notes and the text converse with one another; there is a back-and-forth that expands the story into a metatextual realm… Perhaps for the first time, we are able to see an editor at work, and this makes us think about those same words more deeply and vividly; it releases us from the enchantment of fiction and returns us to the work of literature itself.” (Mercedes Halfon, Página 12)
  • Alejandro Zambra and Andrés Braithwaite have devised a superb literary artefact: a revolving mirror in which they are both reflected. It is a riotously funny but deeply serious game in which, beyond the personal relationship between author and editor, what ultimately matters is the text itself.” (Ignacio Echevarría, El Cultural)
  • “The most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño.” (The New York Times)

Alejandro Zambra A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story

  • Author: Alejeandro Zambra (Chile)
  • Book type: christmas story
  • English tranlation: Megan McDowell
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: November 19, 2026
  • Length: 64 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 10.99
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Blurb of the Christmas Story by Alejandro Zambra

In the winter of 2002, an aspiring writer is hired to review books for the cultural pages of a Santiago newspaper. What follows is an apprenticeship with his editor, David Tightwad: columns filed at midnight, two-hour arguments over a single adjective, long evenings drinking beer and talking about literature. Tightwad edits his protegé’s sentences, his commas, his enthusiasms and – on one unforgettable occasion – his facial hair. Then something small and unforgivable takes place, and the two men stop speaking. Twenty years later, over cold pizza in Mexico City, they try to work out what happened.

A Christmas Story is a book with the beams exposed – introduced and footnoted by Alejandro Zambra’s very own editor, Andrés Braithwaite, and annotated again in English by Megan McDowell, who argues with her own editor in the notes. In her brilliantly playful translation and interventions, the story of the relationship between a writer and his editor takes on extra layers of meaning, revealing how conversations and doubts begin to overflow beyond the page, the text, the language, and the work itself, forging bonds that no longer cling to literature alone, but to life.

Alejandro Zambra was born September 24, 1975 in Santiago, Chile. He is the author of the novels Chilean Poet, Multiple Choice, Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees and Bonsai; the short story collections My Documents and Childish Literature; and the essay collection Not to Read. The recipient of numerous prizes, including a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, his stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s and Harper’s, among others. He lives in Mexico City.

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Ben Eastham – The Floating World

Ben Eastham The Floating World review and information of the novel by the English author. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the debut novel written by the British author Ben Eastham, October 8, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “An immersing, crystalline debut novel that reaches out to a world in crisis; elegant, emotional, deeply serious and gloriously witty.” (Deborah Levy, author)
  • “Channelling Adolfo Bioy Casares, Eastham carries a vision of art’s complicity with power to its endgame. If Art Basel is now globalized, then so is Minneapolis. Looping civilization back to end where it began, in Athens, he proposes that the only counterforce to fascism is love.” (Tom McCarthy, author)
  • “Startlingly imaginative, The Floating World is at times like the work of a J. G. Ballard for the 2020s, at others like the reincarnation of Italo Calvino. Eastham is as deft with a finely observed comic riff as he is with a heart-stoppingly lovely description of a city, a gesture, a connection. In his hands, what could have been a satire of art-world hubris becomes something so attuned to the world – its wonder and its clear and present danger… I don’t want to sound mawkish, but ultimately it’s a novel about our boundless potential to connect, and what we should ultimately value.” (Luke Kennard, author)

Ben Eastham The Floating World

The Floating World

  • Author: Ben Eastham (England)
  • Book type: English debut novel
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: October 8, 2026
  • Length: 276 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14.99
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Blurb of the Ben Eastham novel

On a remote island in the Aegean, a billionaire named Morel is building a refuge for the super-rich from the chaos consuming the outside world. When a struggling journalist is hired to work on the spectacular exhibition that will inaugurate this exclusive new utopia, he jumps at the chance to restart a career that stopped with the death of his wife. Yet he comes to suspect that beneath the dazzling surface of this collaboration between art and power run currents of real violence.

As the inauguration of the Floating World approaches, he finds it more difficult to distinguish dream from reality. Who is excluded from this paradise? On what traumas is it being constructed, and are they poised to return? And can art redeem us from the death of our loved ones and the end of the world?

A dystopia, satire and Bildungsroman, steeped in ancient mythology and contemporary politics, The Floating World is a deeply moving, often hilarious and beautifully written debut novel that heralds an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.

Ben Eastham is an art critic and editor based in London. The editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism, and a regular contributor to the Guardian, he was previously a founding editor of The White Review and an editor at ArtReview. He has edited books on Luis Camnitzer, Arshile Gorky, Fabio Mauri and Stephen Spender, worked on exhibitions including the Shanghai Biennale and documenta, and is on the advisory panel of EVA International. He began his career as a journalist at the BBC reporting on global mass media and propaganda, and has lived in Athens and Rome. His previous book, The Imaginary Museum (TLS Books, 2020), is about how works of art change the way we see the world.

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Jacqueline Rose – Two Women

Jacqueline Rose Two Women review and information of the novel by the English author. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the new novel written by the British author Jacqueline Rose, November 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “t’s really hard for me to overestimate how important Rose’s
    work has been for me… I don’t feel like that about very many
    writers.” (Maggie Nelson)
  • “Jacqueline Rose has no peer among critics of her generation.
    The brilliance of her literary insight, the lucidity of her prose,
    and the subtlety of her analyses are simply breathtaking.” (Edward W. Said)
  • “‘As a literary scholar and psychoanalytic thinker, Rose has
    long insisted that we pay close attention to the subterranean
    fears, fantasies and narratives that structure our most pressing
    sociopolitical problems.” (Merve Emre, The Nation)

Jacqueline Rose Two Women

Two Women

  • Author: Jacqueline Rose (England)
  • Book type: English novel, feminist novel
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: November 6, 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14.99 / £ 8.99
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Blurb of the Jacqueline Rose novel

In Two Women, Jacqueline Rose fictionalizes and intertwines the lives of two remarkable figures whose stories trace the contours of the twentieth century: Edith Stein, the German-Jewish philosopher, Catholic convert and saint; and Gillian Rose, philosopher of German-Jewish thought, also a convert, and Jacqueline’s sister.

Through a luminous weaving of fiction and history, Rose traces the parallels and distances between these women – their intellect, faith, suffering and courage – while also confronting the mysteries of love, loss and belonging that shape every human life. A deeply moving work, Two Women is at once an act of remembrance and a daring work of imagination by one of the most important feminist writers of our time.

Jacqueline Rose was born 1949 in London. She is internationally recognized as one of the most important living feminist and cultural critics. She is the co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, a cofounder of Independent Jewish Voices, and a fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Literary Society. Rose is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and the Guardian, among many other publications. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, States of Fantasy, Women in Dark Times, Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty, On Violence and On Violence Against Women and The Plague.

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Munir Hachemi – The Mulai

Munir Hachemi The Mulai review and information about the metafiction novel written by the Spanish writer. Fitzcarraldo Edidions will publish the English translation of El árbol viene written by Munir Hachemi, the author from Spain, on July 16, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “The Mulaiis a fascinating exploration of the many languages, fears and desires that give rise to a culture – and to the very experience of what we call literature. Munir Hachemi writes with a fresh, original voice that calls to mind Saer, Borges, Calvino, and the finest speculative fiction.” (Simón López Trujillo, author)
  • “In The Mulai, Munir Hachemi conjures a mythic future history with all the heartbreak, mystery and absurdity of truth. With cheeky brilliance (and with translator Julia Sanches as a hovering ghost-in-the-machine presence), Hachemi co-opts the tropes of ethnography and intergalactic colonialism to imagine a queer, eschatological Eden, where culture is story and story is an alchemical compost pile of language decomposed and recomposed.” (Anne de Marcken, author)

Munir Hachemi The Mulai

The Mulai

  • Author: Munir Hachemi (Spain)
  • Book type: metafiction novel, Spanish novel
  • Original: En árbol viene (2025)
  • English translation: Julia Sanches
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: July 16, 2026
  • Length: 176 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 12.99
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Blurb of the second Munir Hachemi novel

An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community, a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth.

Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. As the archaeologist records his attempts to understand their world – a strange negative of our own – questions of translation, meaning-making and the ultimate precarity of civilization come to the fore.

Drawing on Borges, Le Guin and Calvino, The Mulai is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemi’s singularly playful and eclectic style.

Munir Hachemi was born in 1989 in Madrid. His career as a writer began with them selling their stories in the form of fanzines in the bars of the Lavapiés neighbourhood of Madrid. They are the author of Living Things (2018) and The Mulai (2023), and are also a translator from Chinese and English. In 2021, they appeared on Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists list.

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Giada Scodellaro – Ruins, Child

Giada Scodellaro Ruins, Child review and information about the novel by the Italian born American writer. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the Giada Scodellaro novel on March 26, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “Giada Scodellaro is one of the most astonishing writers of her generation and Ruins, Child is a visionary novel. Scodellaro refracts and redefines the canon of Black culture, the archive of Black experience. The result is a masterpiece that lives and breathes on the page, every sentence shimmering with wit, musicality, brilliance and verve.” (Katie Kitamura, author of Audition)
  • “Ruins, Child reads like wild and textured wind, like seeds dispersed, like focus pulled then blossomed outwards, like bodies leaking, thumping, persisting, cleaving: together, then apart. This is a book of breath and people, of the precious metrics of language with all its lakes and tales that flows between and towards women. Giada Scodellaro has written fierce magic, wet earth, hot limbs; it is urgent and beautiful.” (Helen Marten, author of The Boiled in Between)

Giada Scodellaro Ruins, Child

Ruins, Child

  • Author: Giada Scodellaro (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: March 26, 2026
  • Length: 176 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 12.99
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Blurb of the Giada Scodellaro novel

Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaro’s novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable.

With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often vernacular, often overheard.

It’s a book seemingly drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: Scodellaro’s female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalization. A surreal musing, Ruins, Child uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.

Giada Scodellaro was born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, New York. Giada’s writings have appeared in the New Yorker, BOMB and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. Her debut collection, Some of Them Will Carry Me, was named one of the New Yorker’s best books of 2022.

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Janet Frame – A State of Siege

Janet Frame A State of Siege review and information of the content of the 1966 novel by the New Zealand author. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the reissue novel of the novel by the New Zealand writer Janet Fram, on November 6, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Janet Frame A State of Siege review

  • “Intensely personal, her writing is always spiralling in on itself, towards the condition of myth, and yet it nails the moment, pins down experiences so fleeting that others would never grasp them. What eludes ordinary language, she can capture in the extraordinary argot of her imagination.” (Hilary Mantel)
  • “Janet Frame’s prose is a highly volatile material. Words, sentences, paragraphs behave like mercury on the page, running this way and that, forming new shapes and smears from one silvery, trembling blob … Frame’s fiction … made not of some stale conception of verisimilitude but of the shifting stuff of sentences, can take us to a borderless, boundless anywhere.” (Kirsty Gunn, Times Literary Supplement)
  • “Frame’s writing … frequently returns to the strange, self-doubling rituals of normalcy, required of us to find so-called connection…. Her sentences, always at the shore of some great nothingness, have the intricacies and echoes of a conch shell…. Frame points us away from the sturdy book in our hands, toward the flimsy, the abandoned, the scrapped and scraped, the reflective, the ribboned. Toward stories that are nothing but a title, and masterpieces that can fit in the interior pocket of a handbag. There, she says, look. You almost missed it. Look what she has made.” (Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker)

Janet Frame A State of Siege

A State of Siege

  • Author: Janet Frame (New Zealan)
  • Book type: New Zealand novel from 1966
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • Released: November 6, 2025
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the 1966 novel by Janet Frame the New Zealand writer

In A State of Siege, Janet Frame brings her signature playfulness to paint a thrilling psychological portrait. After the death of her invalid mother, Malfred Signal, a retired New Zealand art teacher, leaves her birthplace in the south for a beach cottage on a sub-tropical island in the north. Freed from endless lessons on still life and the dominating presence of her family, she hopes at last to be alone with nature and the ‘room two inches behind the eyes’. But the solitude she has sought mocks her with echoes of her past, when, one stormy night, an intruder pounds ceaselessly and inexplicably on her door.

Propulsive yet poignant, A State of Siege is a mesmerizing exploration of the artistic process, of selfhood and loneliness, and of death and its counterpart: the need to survive, to live.

Janet Frame was born August 28, 1924 in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was a celebrated New Zealand author of novels, short stories, poetry and the three-volume autobiography An Angel at My Table that was adapted for cinema by Jane Campion. Janet Frame won numerous local and international literary prizes including the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book. She was an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and held two honorary doctorates. She was awarded a CBE in 1983 and in 1990 she was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the country’s highest civil honour. Her work is in print around the world and has been translated into many languages. She died on January 29, 2004 at the age of 79 in Duendin.

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Thea Lenarduzzi – The Tower

Thea Lenarduzzi The Tower review, recensie en informatie over de memoir en familiegeschiedenis. Op 9 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Fitzcarraldo Editions het tweede boek van Thea Lenarduzzi. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Thea Lenarduzzi The Tower review en recensie

  • “Thea Lenarduzzi works against the grain of her own and readers’ expectations in this graceful book, in which stories are dismantled so that new truths can be found. Beautifully considered: The Tower is both delicate and wise.” (Anna Enright)
  • “In her second remarkable and equally wise book, Lenarduzzi explores how we shape and share our stories – of ourselves and of others. Some are rooted in truth, others are constructed over generations of telling, and then there are those that relate to the depths of consciousness. She leads us with lyrical and meticulous prose via convincing digressions to an unexpected place to which I feel privileged to have journeyed.” (Julia Bueno)
  • “The Tower is about the allure (and refusal) of certain narratives, about the sublime quest an author takes when she embarks on the act of storytelling. Its form – a composite of fiction, memoir, history – mirrors its subject matter and, excitingly, “stages” its very questions. In this elegantly composed, layered and expansive book, Thea Lenarduzzi articulates something of the mysterious nature of stories while also making an argument for all that is unknowable.” (Lauren Aimee)

Thea Lenarduzzi The Tower

The Tower

  • Auteur: Thea Lenarduzzi
  • Soort boek: familiegeschiedenis, memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • Verschijnt: 9 oktober 2025
  • Omvang; 248 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de familiegeschiedenis van Thea Lenarduzzi

Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a steep slate roof – a folly, it was said. According to locals, a young woman named Annie who fell ill was confined to the tower by her father for three years and died there, alone. Fascinated by Annie’s story, Thea Lenarduzzi attempts to piece the past together in a formidable act of imagination, which, tugging at the strings of the how, why and who of stories, begins to unravel the very idea of storytelling itself.

Veering between fiction, memoir, fairy tale and folklore, The Tower is an extraordinary book about power, abuse and why we don’t always tell the story we set out to tell.

Thea Lenarduzzi is a writer, broadcaster and editor. Her debut, Dandelions, a family memoir and cultural history of migration between Italy and England, won the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize and was shortlisted for the Ackerley Prize for ‘literary autobiography of outstanding merit’. The Tower is her second book.

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