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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 5d

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4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 10d

French President Emmanuel Macron is on first-name terms with him and quotes him in his speeches. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has a direct line to him.

His name is Giuliano da Empoli and his written works have become fashionable reading for those in Europe’s halls of power.

Europe’s political class can’t stop reading Giuliano da Empoli

An Italian-Swiss writer specializing in top-level power games and autocrats is now essential reading for Europe’s political elite, particularly Emmanuel Macron.

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · 13d

@financialtimes.com How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power, according to Giuliano da Empoli, author of The Wizard of the Kremlin and The Hour of the Predator www.ft.com/content/85ee...

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power

Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

www.ft.com

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · 14d

Praise for Mahesh Rao’s HALF LIGHT:
‘Tender yet piercing’ @service95
‘Rao writes with great sensitivity’ @irishtimes.com
‘Intelligent, keenly observed’ @thetls.bsky.social
‘A gentle exquisite portrait of lives lived in half light’ @dailymail.co.uk

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · 16d

Pushkin Press' @Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year include sapphic vampiric cult classic Carmilla, political thriller The Wizard of the Kremlin, Uketsu's unforgettable Strange Pictures, and Yokomizo's thriller of the month, Murder at the Black Cat Cafe! Perfect for gifting season 🎁

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · 21d

THRILLED to see A. E. Goldin's Murder in Constantinople longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown 2025! Huge congratulations 🥳 @historia-hwa.bsky.social

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · Sep 1

🐈‍⬛ @waterstones.bsky.social THRILLER OF THE MONTH 🐈‍⬛

Murder at the Black Cat Cafe is the latest book from the Japanese Agatha Christie, Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Bryan Karetnyk 🔪A dizzyingly clever rediscovered GEM of Japanese Golden Age crime 💎

Your perfect next spooky season read is OUT NOW🚨

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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · Aug 28

‘A novel like no other.’ – Eimear McBride

It’s paperback publication day for EDITH HOLLER by Edward Carey! Out now from @pushkinpress.com.🎭

‪It’s said that if Edith leaves the theatre, she’ll bring about its ruin…

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/edit...

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · Aug 27

Chat, how do I understand modern politics? @anneapplebaum

A gripping new work of political non-fiction by the bestselling author of The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest Giuliano da Empoli book The Hour of the Predator is coming this October. Available for preorder now 📚

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · Aug 15

'Read this book and you will understand the Russian mind-f**k'- John Sweeney, author of Killer in the Kremlin

www.waterstones.com/book/the-wiz...

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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · Aug 7

Very glad to finally be able to talk about my upcoming creative nonfiction book on seasonal ritual, wild time and our connection with the natural world; to be published w/the wholly brilliant @pushkinpress.com next year!

Details in the @thebookseller.com -

www.thebookseller.com/rights/one-t...

ONE to publish poet Rebecca Tamás' first full-length work of non-fiction

ONE, an imprint of Pushkin Press, is set to publish poet Rebecca Tamás' first full-length work of non-fiction.

www.thebookseller.com

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · Aug 6

Edith Holler by Edward Carey is 'an enjoyably uncategorisable and atmospheric book, a richly dark and idiosyncratic fairytale for grownups' - out in paperback 28th August!
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

This month’s best paperbacks: Gabriel García Márquez, Craig Brown and more

Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some great new paperbacks, from a posthumous novel to an absorbing account of how nationalism shaped a country

www.theguardian.com

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Jul 23

Japanese fiction now outsells all other translated languages in the UK—and it’s not just Murakami anymore.

From cats to cannibalism, @susiemesure.bsky.social explores the literary boom that began with CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and shows no signs of slowing down.
www.prospectmagazine...

Rising sun: why Japanese fiction is booming in the west

Translated Japanese fiction is suddenly booming in the west. We spoke to publishers, editors and translators to discover why

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · Jul 28

Been eyeing our upcoming releases? Use the code SUMMER25 online at Waterstones.com and on the app for 25% off when preordering The Man Who Died Seven Times, Murder at the Black Cat Cafe, What Fury Brings, and The Hour of the Predator!

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Emma | 𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚋𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜.𝚌𝚘𝚖 @damppebbles.bsky.social · Jul 18

#fivestarflashback ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#BookReview: The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada @pushkinpress.com #TheTokyoZodiacMurders #damppebbles
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#whattoread #bookish #BookSky #skybrarians #bookrecs #bookrecommendation

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Suroor Alikhan @suroora.bsky.social · Jul 19

This week's #bookreview: Seishi Yokomizo's The Devil's Flute Murders, a twisty #whodunnit set in post-World War II Japan. A man seen alive months after his suicide, dark family secrets, and mysterious music seeming to come from nowhere. @pushkinpress.com
talking-about-books.com/2025/07/19/t...

The Devil’s Flute Murders: Seishi Yokomizo

Translated from Japanese by Jim Rion.Published by Pushkin Vertigo, 2023, 348 pages. Original version published in 1973. Japan 1947. The end of the Second World War has resulted in social upheaval, …

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · Jul 18

We're thrilled at the announcement of this prize in honour of our very own Pushkin Press Publisher and Managing Director, Adam Freudenheim. Now open for applications!

Jewish Literary Foundation @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk · Jul 16

For 75 years we have championed Jewish literature and its power to captivate international audiences. Today, we're celebrating this milestone with the launch of our inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize.

Presented with @thetls.bsky.social and supported by the Freudenheim family shorturl.at/Cjo3r

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · Jul 18

And a wonderful Jamie Buxton review for The Man Who Died Seven Times, the 'brilliantly intricate mystery [that] has it all', out 14 August!
www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

Jamie Buxton picks July's sci fi and fantasy

Sci fi and fantasy

www.dailymail.co.uk

Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · Jul 18

A beautiful review by Sally Morris for the 'devastatingly moving' classic Salt Water by Charles Simmons, available now!
www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

Relax with a retro this July

Relax with a retro

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today in the ARB: @alisonfincher.bsky.social reviews “Someone to Watch Over You” by Kumi Kimura tr fm Japanese by Yuki Tejima @pushkinpress.com asianreviewofbooks.com/someone-to-w...

“Someone to Watch Over You” by Kumi Kimura

Tae Kudo is a neurotic 46-year-old woman who has become something of a hypochondriac in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of her experiences will be deeply familiar to most readers…

asianreviewofbooks.com

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The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social · Jul 3

Lulu Miller's "Why Fish Don't Exist" (@pushkinpress.com) is @blackwells.bsky.social non-fiction pick for July. #Booksky

www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/07/why-...

Why Fish Don't Exist is Blackwell's Pick for July

Lulu Miller's "Why Fish Don't Exist; A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World," has been selected by Blackwell's as their pick for the non-fiction Book of the Month for July 2025.

www.wellreadnaturalist.com

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · Jul 3

Translated by @jimrion.com & cover by Luke Bird

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · Jul 3

The wait is FINALLY over! Strange Houses, the followup to Uketsu’s international phenomenon Strange Pictures, is out TODAY!

An unforgettable mystery where houses hide the darkest of secrets.

Get ready to never see floorpans the same way again 🔪

www.waterstones.com/book/strange...

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Justine 📚💙 @ishouldreadthat.bsky.social · Jul 2

Are you obsessed with RightMove? Love a floor plan? Me too! Strange Houses by Uketsu #bookreview #bookblog #uketsu
ishouldreadthat.co.uk/2025/07/02/s...

Thank you @pushkinpress.com for sending me a copy of this book!

Strange Houses by Uketsu

Book review ★★★★ A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of unsettling floorplans, in which the reader is the detective – from the Youtube sensation Uketsu A mysterious windo…

ishouldreadthat.co.uk

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Pushkin Children's Books @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social · Jun 27

Introducing Pushkin Children’s Classics!

Reading is never more ✨magical✨ than in childhood. That’s why we’re bringing you the most thrilling and inspiring children’s stories from around the world.

Stay tuned for the six beloved titles we’re publishing on July 3rd 🥳

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