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We’re very happy to announce that Red House Alley by Else Jerusalem, translated by Stephanie Gorrell Ortega, has been longlisted for The Freudenheim Translation Prize! 🎉
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We publish ‘Makeshift’ by Sarah Campion at the end of next month! Pre-order now here: www.boilerhouse.pres...

‘Makeshift’ is a fascinating and long-neglected novel about the struggle to establish an identity in an unstable and intolerant world, told in an unforgettable voice.

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October 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The video of the virtual launch of Malachi Whitaker's keen-eyed, funny, and unconventional memoir, And So Did I, the latest in our Recovered Books series, is now available on YouTube. Whitaker's biographer Valerie Waterhouse and series editor Brad Bigelow discuss this fine little classic:
Virtual Launch of And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker
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October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Join us for the virtual launch of Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, And So Did I, the latest in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press.

Tuesday, 14 October, at 7PM BST. Our special guests will be Catherine Taylor and Valerie Waterhouse.

Register on Eventbrite:
Book Launch of And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker
Join us for the launch of And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker, a memoir decades ahead of its time, from Boiler House Press
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October 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Available now, the latest in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social. Available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social.
A book I have very much enjoyed this week: "And So Do I" by Bradford writer Malachi Whitaker, a sort of chronicle of 2 years in the late 1930s, first published in 1939 & newly republished. Irreverent, humorous, often startlingly honest, with an undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching.
October 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Special #bookmail today: the new Arabic translation of Herbert Clyde Lewis's rescued masterpiece, Gentleman Overboard. Out this week from Alkarma Books in Cairo. This little wonder has now been published in ten countries. Available from @bhousepress.bsky.social and @asterismbooks.bsky.social.
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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🎅🔎 Searching for Santa Claus, my collection of the stories, poems and illustrations that shaped a global icon, has a cover (by the amazing Studio GRRR)! Available for preorder from @bhousepress.bsky.social now!

🎅👉 www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
September 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The included story is from Ruby’s collection THIS PARADISE which is all bangers. One of the best short story collections I’ve read in years. Available from @boilerhouse.bsky.social!
My spine is tingling as a short from my @boilerhouse.bsky.social collection is in Ghost Box IV: a deluxe coffin of spooky/horror stories from Canadian publishers of gorgeous box sets Hingston & Olsen w/ texts selected by excellent human @pattonoswalt.bsky.social 🙏 Out today, print run very limited!
Ghost Box IV — Hingston & Olsen Publishing
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October 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Our next virtual launch from the Recovered Books series at @bhousepress.bsky.social will be for Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, And So Did I, on Tuesday, 14 October, at 7PM BST. Our special guests will be Catherine Taylor and Valerie Waterhouse.

Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
September 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Back in 2019, I told my UEA tutor that Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I was one of the books I most wanted to reissue if I ever had a chance.

And six years later, with the help of Valerie Waterhouse, Catherine Taylor, and @bhousepress.bsky.social, we have.

(One reason to be cheerful today.)
September 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“And So Did I is an engrossing, often moving, beautifully written and contemplative work.” @kaggsy59.bsky.social offers an enthusiastic assessment of Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, out today in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press. Available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social
“Tea, like death, is a great leveller.” @neglectedbooks @bhousepress #malachiwhitaker
Over the last few years, I’ve been happy to champion the Recovered Books imprint from Boiler House Press; since their initial release, “Gentleman Overboard” in 2021, they’ve…
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September 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Available tomorrow, 30 September, from the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press: @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social's unique memoir, And So Did I, recovered with the help of @neglectedbooks.com, Valerie Waterhouse, and Catherine Taylor.
September 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I think Malachi Whitaker's (@malachiwhitaker.bsky.social) And So Did I has finally found its time and its readers. In 1939, and even when Carcanet reissued it in the 1980s, its "not any one thing-ness" was really held against it.

Available to pre-order now from @bhousepress.bsky.social.
Just receive this book by Malachi Whitaker with an intro by Katya Taylor.
According to the New Statesman, it is ‘not an autobiography, not quite a journal, it combines in a most original way the qualities of both.’
Yes, please!

#boilerhousepress #neglectedbooks #MalachiWhitaker #KatyaTaylor
July 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📣Calling all fans of Out of Earth!!!

Check out Sheyla Smanioto's short story Intruder, included in the latest issue of @fictionable.bsky.social
A stranger comes to town, but there’s more than just the dish of the day on the menu in Sheyla Smanioto's short story Intruder, translated from Portuguese by Laura Garmeson and Sophie Lewis.

www.fictionable.world/stories/intr...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #blog #podcast
August 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🎉 Happy 2nd Anniversary to Sheyla
Smanioto's Out of Earth!! 🎉

Out of Earth has been wildly popular with critics and
with readers - if you want to see why, visit our website
and grab yourself a copy: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
July 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Check out Prospect Magazine's praise for Gertrude Trevelyan 💌

Trance By Appointment is published under our Recovered Books collection with @neglectedbooks.com - check it out on our website!

If they love her, and we love her, then chances are you will too .. I mean, it just makes sense!
She wrote eight acclaimed novels in seven years. Then Gertrude Trevelyan disappeared completely from literary history.

Oliver Soden unravels one of literature’s greatest vanishing acts—and celebrates her return.
www.prospectmagazine...
Gertrude Trevelyan is a novelist for the 1930s—and now
This long-neglected writer allowed the world—its politics, technologies and conflicts—to intrude on her books. Her rediscovery is perfectly timed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🎉Out of Earth on the @englishpen.bsky.social Pen Translates Bookshelf!

✍️English PEN is one of the world’s oldest human rights organisations, championing the freedom to write and the freedom to read around the world.

Order your copy: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
July 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🚀LAUNCH DAY!🚀

🎉Happy publication day to Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan, the latest book in our Recovered Books series!

Follow the link to get a copy: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
Trance by Appointment | boiler-house-press
Available 30 May 2025! Trance by Appointment is the story of Jean, an otherwise ordinary working-class London girl. But Jean has what her mother calls “the Sight.” She sees what no one else can: the f...
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May 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Curious about Norman Macleod's The Bitter Roots, originally published in 1941?

Check out this brilliant review by @thepulp.org to find out what makes this vivid coming-of-age story so special!

Available to order via our website: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
First published in 1941 and recently revived, Norman Macleod’s semi-autobiographical novel "The Bitter Roots" excavates Missoula's buried past, including its young men trying to prove themselves amid war, class struggle, and cruelty.
The bitter roots of a Missoula boyhood – The Pulp
First published in 1941 and recently revived, Norman Macleod’s semi-autobiographical novel "The Bitter Roots" excavates Missoula's buried past, including its young men trying to prove themselves amid...
thepulp.org
May 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Join us on Wednesday, 11 June, as we launch our newest Recovered Book from @bhousepress.bsky.social, Gertrude Trevelyan's utterly unknown Trance by Appointment, with novelist Louisa Treger and Dr. Rebecca Bowler of Keele University.

Register now on Eventbrite. It's free.

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Book Launch of Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan
Join us for the launch of Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan, the tale of a psychic and her exploitation, from Boiler House Press
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May 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In just one week, Boiler House Press (@bhousepress.bsky.social) will publish Gertrude Trevelyan's last novel, Trance by Appointment—out of print and virtually unavailable for over 85 years. Copies can be pre-ordered now from BoilerHouse.press in the UK and AsterismBooks.com in the US.
May 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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In just two weeks, Boiler House Press (@bhousepress.bsky.social) will publish Gertrude Trevelyan's last novel, Trance by Appointment—out of print and virtually unavailable for over 85 years. Copies can be pre-ordered now from BoilerHouse.press in the UK and AsterismBooks.com in the US.
May 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🔮COMING SOON to the Boiler House
Press Recovered Books series – Trance by
Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan!

Follow the link to find out more: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
April 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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The renaissance of Herbert Clyde Lewis's little classic, Gentleman Overboard, available from @bhousepress.bsky.social, continues. Last week, the wonderful actress Maria Paiato kept an audience in Bergamo, Italy spellbound with her reading of the novel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRBE...
Una stupenda Maria Paiato presso Meccanotecnica con Gentiluomo in mare - Fiati ai libri 2024
YouTube video by Fiato ai Libri
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April 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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