Les Fugitives
@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
Contemporary literary fiction & non-fiction translated from the French. Modern classics and English originals.
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We were so engrossed in the event last night we forgot to take pictures! These are from Clem. Big thanks to Gareth Evans, Yann and Clem’s co-speaker extraordinaire who chaired the conversation with brio, and injected irresistible humour.
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We were so engrossed in the event last night we forgot to take pictures! These are from Clem. Big thanks to Gareth Evans, Yann and Clem’s co-speaker extraordinaire who chaired the conversation with brio, and injected irresistible humour.
We were shocked and saddened to read that Rachel Cooke had died. She championed Michèle Roberts' work, and her take on French Cooking for One proposed the book to the bestsellers sphere. We remember her exemplary, fearless originality and generous spirit.
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Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
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November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We were shocked and saddened to read that Rachel Cooke had died. She championed Michèle Roberts' work, and her take on French Cooking for One proposed the book to the bestsellers sphere. We remember her exemplary, fearless originality and generous spirit.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Can’t go to this tomorrow night, alas, but it should be excellent. Blackout is one of the books of the year, a sui generis journey into silence, mixing memoir, philosophy & art criticism.
Please join us on 18 November for an event at Reference.Point in London about BLACKOUT with debut author Yann Chateigné Tytelman and his translator @clementoctober.bsky.social in conversation with writer and film curator Gareth Evans.
Get your ticket www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
Get your ticket www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Can’t go to this tomorrow night, alas, but it should be excellent. Blackout is one of the books of the year, a sui generis journey into silence, mixing memoir, philosophy & art criticism.
That is sobering news. What on earth do we bother for? competing against Behemoths, when reprinting 3,000 copies of a book reviewed across the whole national press nearly bankrupts us.
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
That is sobering news. What on earth do we bother for? competing against Behemoths, when reprinting 3,000 copies of a book reviewed across the whole national press nearly bankrupts us.
Amazing to see both French Cooking for One and French Cooking for Two on the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk bestsellers list!
This week’s bestsellers 🧠 (+ THE PENELOPIAD by Margaret Atwood - we're currently out of stock!)
Find out more about each book here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...
Find out more about each book here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Amazing to see both French Cooking for One and French Cooking for Two on the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk bestsellers list!
See you tomorrow in Bath for the Peirene indie book fair!
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
See you tomorrow in Bath for the Peirene indie book fair!
Thank you for a lovely, thoughtful review of Zombie Proust by Jérôme Prieur (translated by Nancy Kline)!
For the afternoon crowd... Whilst in @dauntbooks.bsky.social last month I stumbled across an amazing little book about Proust from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/h...
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thank you for a lovely, thoughtful review of Zombie Proust by Jérôme Prieur (translated by Nancy Kline)!
FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship is out now!
We're feeling well-fed and satisfied here! Michèle's simple yet delicious recipes focus on seasonal ingredients, are full of her distinctive wit and charm and honour the joy of connection over food 🍽️
Out now from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
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Out now from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
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November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship is out now!
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One of my favourite writers in Ireland is Erica Van Horn. I'm delighted to be quoted on the reprint of her book 'We Still Have the Telephone', published by @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
One of my favourite writers in Ireland is Erica Van Horn. I'm delighted to be quoted on the reprint of her book 'We Still Have the Telephone', published by @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
Another excerpt, this time from the Winter section of FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship by Michèle Roberts.
In case you missed Michèle last week, join us at Veranda Bookshop this Thursday for the book launch. Get your free ticket here www.ticketsource.co.uk/veranda-books
In case you missed Michèle last week, join us at Veranda Bookshop this Thursday for the book launch. Get your free ticket here www.ticketsource.co.uk/veranda-books
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Another excerpt, this time from the Winter section of FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship by Michèle Roberts.
In case you missed Michèle last week, join us at Veranda Bookshop this Thursday for the book launch. Get your free ticket here www.ticketsource.co.uk/veranda-books
In case you missed Michèle last week, join us at Veranda Bookshop this Thursday for the book launch. Get your free ticket here www.ticketsource.co.uk/veranda-books
We’ll be at the @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair in Conway Hall until 7 today!
October 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
We’ll be at the @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair in Conway Hall until 7 today!
A great first day at @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair today! Michèle Roberts came by to sign early copies of French Cooking for Two (here pictured with our SPF neighbour Nick Royles of Nightjar Press)
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A great first day at @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair today! Michèle Roberts came by to sign early copies of French Cooking for Two (here pictured with our SPF neighbour Nick Royles of Nightjar Press)
Please join us on 18 November for an event at Reference.Point in London about BLACKOUT with debut author Yann Chateigné Tytelman and his translator @clementoctober.bsky.social in conversation with writer and film curator Gareth Evans.
Get your ticket www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
Get your ticket www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Please join us on 18 November for an event at Reference.Point in London about BLACKOUT with debut author Yann Chateigné Tytelman and his translator @clementoctober.bsky.social in conversation with writer and film curator Gareth Evans.
Get your ticket www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
Get your ticket www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
With its plethora of lead titles from the big fives and from big indies alike, October is even more of an uphill struggle than usual for small literary indies like yours truly. Keep bibliodiversity alive and join us at the @smallpublishers.bsky.social Fair this weekend!
It's #smallpublishersfair25 in London this Fri/Sat! Here's a quick link to the PDF of the Fair programme, with details of all 66 UK & international publishers, special exhibition, readings & talks: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/wp-content/u...
(Print copies also available at Conway Hall on Fri/Sat)
(Print copies also available at Conway Hall on Fri/Sat)
October 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
With its plethora of lead titles from the big fives and from big indies alike, October is even more of an uphill struggle than usual for small literary indies like yours truly. Keep bibliodiversity alive and join us at the @smallpublishers.bsky.social Fair this weekend!
UPDATED events calendar. Join us this month and next to discuss our new releases in the UK and Belgium. No OffPrint for us this time around, but an exciting book launch for FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship by Michèle Roberts. www.lesfugitives.com/events
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
UPDATED events calendar. Join us this month and next to discuss our new releases in the UK and Belgium. No OffPrint for us this time around, but an exciting book launch for FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship by Michèle Roberts. www.lesfugitives.com/events
Great, incisive review of Jérôme Prieur’s ‘minimalist yet revelatory’ Zombie Proust (tr. by Nancy Kline) by Thuy Dinh, editor-at-large of Asymptote Journal. Read it in full here www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
Desire and Possession: A Review of Jérôme Prieur’s Zombie Proust - Asymptote Blog
Proust saw glittering Parisian dinners and costume balls as “great massacres.” His society models posed for him and were in turn “devoured” by him.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Great, incisive review of Jérôme Prieur’s ‘minimalist yet revelatory’ Zombie Proust (tr. by Nancy Kline) by Thuy Dinh, editor-at-large of Asymptote Journal. Read it in full here www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...
It’s been out of print for over a year but we are so pleased to bring a new lease of life to WE STILL HAVE THE TELEPHONE on the occasion of the focus on Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts' art press Coracle at this year's edition of the Small Publishers’ Fair. www.lesfugitives.com/the-quick-br...
Les Fugitives Erica Van Horn We Still Have the Telephone elderly mother New Hampshire nonfiction — Les Fugitives
Assembling fragments of past and present Van Horn describes a life laid out in detail, quietly registering the fuzziness of the line between eccentricity and madness. An undutiful daughter records he...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It’s been out of print for over a year but we are so pleased to bring a new lease of life to WE STILL HAVE THE TELEPHONE on the occasion of the focus on Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts' art press Coracle at this year's edition of the Small Publishers’ Fair. www.lesfugitives.com/the-quick-br...
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Blackout by Yann Chateigné Tytelman a remarkable little book - a meditation on grief, silences, solitude, the solaces (or otherwise) of art.
Taking in Charles Ray’s Ink Box, Celmin’s sea pictures, David Toop, Judy Nylon along the way. It’s another fantastic work from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
Taking in Charles Ray’s Ink Box, Celmin’s sea pictures, David Toop, Judy Nylon along the way. It’s another fantastic work from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Blackout by Yann Chateigné Tytelman a remarkable little book - a meditation on grief, silences, solitude, the solaces (or otherwise) of art.
Taking in Charles Ray’s Ink Box, Celmin’s sea pictures, David Toop, Judy Nylon along the way. It’s another fantastic work from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
Taking in Charles Ray’s Ink Box, Celmin’s sea pictures, David Toop, Judy Nylon along the way. It’s another fantastic work from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
In case you missed it, French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Frienship by Michèle Roberts will be out next month! For charming, witty anecdotes and recipes to share with a loved one along the year, you can preorder here www.lesfugitives.com/cookbooks/fr...
French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Friendship — Les Fugitives
cookery french cookbook michele roberts les fugitives cooking for one cooking for two
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October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In case you missed it, French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Frienship by Michèle Roberts will be out next month! For charming, witty anecdotes and recipes to share with a loved one along the year, you can preorder here www.lesfugitives.com/cookbooks/fr...
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Led by Cécile Menon, London-based @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social publishes French authors of literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, trans-genre writing, and English language originals. You can find them at #smallpublishersfair25, Conway Hall, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct
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October 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Led by Cécile Menon, London-based @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social publishes French authors of literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, trans-genre writing, and English language originals. You can find them at #smallpublishersfair25, Conway Hall, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
In the @lrb.co.uk London Review of Books this month. Les Fugitives has been preparing a reprint of Erica Van Horn’s We Still Have the Telephone for this month’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social Small Publishers Fair.
October 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In the @lrb.co.uk London Review of Books this month. Les Fugitives has been preparing a reprint of Erica Van Horn’s We Still Have the Telephone for this month’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social Small Publishers Fair.
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Blackout by Yann Chateigne Tytel translated from the French by Clem Clements out with @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social was launched @verandabookshop
A tapestry of beautifully woven words, Blackout is an unusual meditation on the myriad sounds of silence.
A tapestry of beautifully woven words, Blackout is an unusual meditation on the myriad sounds of silence.
October 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Blackout by Yann Chateigne Tytel translated from the French by Clem Clements out with @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social was launched @verandabookshop
A tapestry of beautifully woven words, Blackout is an unusual meditation on the myriad sounds of silence.
A tapestry of beautifully woven words, Blackout is an unusual meditation on the myriad sounds of silence.
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Written in fragments, 'Blackout' is a moving exploration of Tytelman's grief for his Father set during the Spring 2020 lockdown in France. It's an atmospheric, ghostly and unmissable read for autumn!
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October 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Written in fragments, 'Blackout' is a moving exploration of Tytelman's grief for his Father set during the Spring 2020 lockdown in France. It's an atmospheric, ghostly and unmissable read for autumn!
OUT NOW from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
buff.ly/RdEpaSl
OUT NOW from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
buff.ly/RdEpaSl
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Great to celebrate the launch of Yann Chateigné Tyltleman’s Blackout at Veranda Books last night, expertly chaired by @clementoctober.bsky.social. Out now from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Great to celebrate the launch of Yann Chateigné Tyltleman’s Blackout at Veranda Books last night, expertly chaired by @clementoctober.bsky.social. Out now from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman (translated by @clementoctober.bsky.social ) is out tomorrow. Join us at Veranda Books for the launch tomorrow (ticketed). You can also order BLACKOUT now from our website www.lesfugitives.com/2025/yann-ch...
October 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman (translated by @clementoctober.bsky.social ) is out tomorrow. Join us at Veranda Books for the launch tomorrow (ticketed). You can also order BLACKOUT now from our website www.lesfugitives.com/2025/yann-ch...