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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · 8m

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.

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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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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

Available now, the latest in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social. Available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social.

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 4d

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.

The cover of the new Recovered Books edition of "And So Did I" by Malachi Whitaker. A dark green cover, through which two eyes stare out at us.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 5d

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.

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Thomas Ruys Smith @thomasruyssmith.com · Sep 5

🎅🔎 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...

The cover image for Searching for Santa Claus, edited by Thomas Ruys Smith and published by Boiler House Press.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 7d

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!

Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 7d

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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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · 6d

👋 Thank you, Patton! 😘 And yes it really is all bangers.... hope you don't mind us (ahem) leaving this here too: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...

This Paradise by Ruby Cowling | boiler-house-press

Or buy ANY FIVE of BHP New Fiction books to date for A BARGAIN £40..SHORTLISTED for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, 2020 LONGLISTED for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, 2020:"Ruby Cowling's de...

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 8d

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...

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 8d

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.)

bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · 8d

“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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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · 8d

“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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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Jul 31

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.

Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · Aug 1

📣Calling all fans of Out of Earth!!!

Check out Sheyla Smanioto's short story Intruder, included in the latest issue of @fictionable.bsky.social

Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

A portrait of the writer Sheyla Smanioto, with a quote from her short story Intruder, translated by Laura Garmeson and Sophie Lewis: 'No one ever rings the bell outside Pito's bar and restaurant…'

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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎉 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...

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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 23

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!

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Jul 23

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

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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎉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...

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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · May 30

🚀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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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · May 30

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...

The Pulp @thepulp.org · May 29

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...

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · May 24

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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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · May 23

Pre-order here! www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · May 23

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.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · May 16

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.

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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · Apr 30

🔮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...

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Apr 20

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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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · Apr 21

Also on sale here! www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...

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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · Apr 15

🚀Reminder to grab a ticket to the FREE virtual launch event for Solitary Confinement happening TOMORROW!

Taking part in the discussion will be Hugh Purcell, Dr. Peter Burney, and Brad Bigelow.

Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book Launch of Solitary Confinement by Christopher Burney

Join us for the launch of Solitary Confinement by Christopher Burney, a classic of survival and mental resilience, from Boiler House Press

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Apr 11

Stephanie Ortega reads the opening passage of Red House Alley, her translation of Else Jerusalem's landmark novel about sex workers in imperial Vienna. Red House Alley is available now in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social.

youtu.be/b-Xg_xg41P4?...

Stephanie Ortega reads from Else Jerusalem's RED HOUSE ALLEY (Boiler House Press / Asterim Books)

YouTube video by Translators Aloud

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