Gary Michael Perry
@gmperry.bsky.social
London-based bookseller and book marketing person. Books in English, Portuguese and, occasionally, Spanish. 🏳️🌈
Best International Booker longlist in a while! SOLENOID!!!
February 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Best International Booker longlist in a while! SOLENOID!!!
Vocês já sabem que vou estar em São Paulo em outubro? Preciso de dicas de livrarias chiques.
February 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Vocês já sabem que vou estar em São Paulo em outubro? Preciso de dicas de livrarias chiques.
Água Viva now has competition as my favourite Lispector. This was absolutely incredible. I’ve underlined pretty much every line.
February 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Água Viva now has competition as my favourite Lispector. This was absolutely incredible. I’ve underlined pretty much every line.
Loved this. Complex, propulsive, deliciously sordid. Morante’s "dark symphony" confronts the ways in which, through delusion, fantasy and deceit, we fashion ourselves and each other. In LIES AND SORCERY, imagination is an essential, yet treacherous, mode of survival.
January 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Loved this. Complex, propulsive, deliciously sordid. Morante’s "dark symphony" confronts the ways in which, through delusion, fantasy and deceit, we fashion ourselves and each other. In LIES AND SORCERY, imagination is an essential, yet treacherous, mode of survival.
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Thrilled to announce that we have not just one but two books longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize!
Congratulations to Morgan Talty, author of FIRE EXIT, and to Lutz Seiler and @tesslewis.bsky.social for STAR 111!
Congratulations to Morgan Talty, author of FIRE EXIT, and to Lutz Seiler and @tesslewis.bsky.social for STAR 111!
January 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Thrilled to announce that we have not just one but two books longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize!
Congratulations to Morgan Talty, author of FIRE EXIT, and to Lutz Seiler and @tesslewis.bsky.social for STAR 111!
Congratulations to Morgan Talty, author of FIRE EXIT, and to Lutz Seiler and @tesslewis.bsky.social for STAR 111!
Can’t quite believe it’s that time of the year again, but here are my top reads (in English) of 2024. Lots of great stuff from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social, @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, @picadorbooks.bsky.social, @faberbooks.bsky.social, @prototypepubs.bsky.social, amongst others.
December 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Can’t quite believe it’s that time of the year again, but here are my top reads (in English) of 2024. Lots of great stuff from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social, @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, @picadorbooks.bsky.social, @faberbooks.bsky.social, @prototypepubs.bsky.social, amongst others.
Obcecado com este livro.
November 25, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Obcecado com este livro.
Lisbon/Évora book haul
November 23, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Lisbon/Évora book haul
Descobri uma livraria incrível em Évora e sim a conta bancária sofreu muito.
November 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Descobri uma livraria incrível em Évora e sim a conta bancária sofreu muito.
Juro, vou voltar pra Londres super pobre.
November 19, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Juro, vou voltar pra Londres super pobre.
Este livro é uma loucura. Não faz sentido nenhum mas é lindo.
November 19, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Este livro é uma loucura. Não faz sentido nenhum mas é lindo.
How to resist? (I didn’t)
November 18, 2024 at 8:13 PM
How to resist? (I didn’t)
I’m going in, comrades.
November 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM
I’m going in, comrades.
Currently reading the latest Virginie Despentes, DEAR DICKHEAD, and it’s quite the ride. Wild but also surprisingly gentle and empathetic. Another great translation from @terribleman.com too.
November 17, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Currently reading the latest Virginie Despentes, DEAR DICKHEAD, and it’s quite the ride. Wild but also surprisingly gentle and empathetic. Another great translation from @terribleman.com too.
“Não dou pão a ninguém, só sei dar umas palavras. E dói ser tão pobre.”
November 15, 2024 at 9:57 PM
“Não dou pão a ninguém, só sei dar umas palavras. E dói ser tão pobre.”
Acabei de descobrir o restaurante das passivas.
November 15, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Acabei de descobrir o restaurante das passivas.
A privilege to be working on this AMAZING book. Seriously awesome synergy between translator and writer. Not out until April, but one to add to your wishlists now.
November 15, 2024 at 2:32 PM
A privilege to be working on this AMAZING book. Seriously awesome synergy between translator and writer. Not out until April, but one to add to your wishlists now.
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Thank you Lucy Scholes for this five-star review. I'm still spinning a bit from this one.
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
A British novel so brilliant it touches the sublime
Former war reporter Lara Pawson mixes the mundane with the momentous in Spent Light, her genre-defying portrait of a woman’s London life
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Thank you Lucy Scholes for this five-star review. I'm still spinning a bit from this one.
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
Current read in Portuguese, comrades.
November 13, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Current read in Portuguese, comrades.
About halfway through this from Pol Guasch and it’s truly exceptional. A little like reading Lispector.
September 10, 2024 at 8:26 PM
About halfway through this from Pol Guasch and it’s truly exceptional. A little like reading Lispector.