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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 3d

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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BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 4d

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.

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Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 9d

Join us in Bath for the Indie Book Fair this November!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 13d

Join us at 6.30 at Veranda Bookshop in London on 2 October to celebrate the launch of BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman who will be in conversation with his translator @clementoctober.bsky.social . Get your free tickets here www.ticketsource.co.uk/veranda-books

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 16d

We received a special delivery at the office today! Our copies of BLACKOUT by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, translated from the French by Clem Clement @clementoctober.bsky.social

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 23d

We look forward to bringing out the UK edition of Olufemi Terry’s debut novel Wilderness of Mirrors in Spring 2026! @bookbrunch.bsky.social

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Clem Clement @clementoctober.bsky.social · 29d

One of my favourite paragraphs from Blackout by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, translated from the French by me, forthcoming from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social on 2 October. Yann's first book in English and my first full-length translation. 🌑

A paragraph from a book. The text is: The moment in scenes of violence and trauma in certain films when the sound is suddenly cut. The deaf-mute vision of a world whose intensity becomes purely visual, as though emotion had saturated the spectrum of sound, imposing its noise on the noise, rendering it imperceptible, cancelling it out.

Two copies of the book BLACKOUT, by Yann Chateigné Tytelman and published by Les Fugitives, lying on a wooden table. The cover is black. The title and author name, in silver, are encircled by a solar eclipse.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Sep 4

A review of Harriet Armstrong’s To Rest Our Minds and Bodies in this month’s @litreview.bsky.social. @orlandoreade.bsky.social connects the dots and observes the maturity of the work. This is immensely flattering!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Michèle Roberts signing French Cooking for One at Toppings Edinburgh this month.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · Aug 28

@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social + poetry 🤩 = Colour me excited 🤗

Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our first book of poetry comes out tomorrow. a grammar of the world by Jeanne Benameur translated by Bill Johnston. The perfect book for the end of summer and the end of Women in Translation month.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our first book of poetry comes out tomorrow. a grammar of the world by Jeanne Benameur translated by Bill Johnston. The perfect book for the end of summer and the end of Women in Translation month.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 19

Surprise! a grammar of the world, by Jeanne Benameur, translated by Bill Johnston, will be out August 28. For once we've got copies months ahead of our planned pub date. The joys of indie publishing - never a dull moment! A Mediterranean book about the sea and the sun for the end of summer.

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 19

What are you reading this Women in Translation month? There is still time to explore our backlist! www.lesfugitives.com/all-books

Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 11

Harriet Armstrong, debut author of TO REST OUR MINDS AND BODIES, and Michèle Roberts, author of FRENCH COOKING FOR ONE, will be at @edbookfest.bsky.social in the coming days to discuss their books. Get your tickets here www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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Suroor Alikhan @suroora.bsky.social · Aug 5

A book for #WomeninTranslationMonth: This Tilting World by Tunisian author Colette Fellous, a #memoir about a woman trying to come to terms with a friend's death and the 2015 terrorist attacks in Tunis. Transl. Sophie Lewis. @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
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This Tilting World: Colette Fellous

Translated from French by Sophie LewisPublished by Les Fugitives, 2019, 190 pages. Original version published in 2017. “[B]ut now it’s over, my novel is damaged, the world is damaged, I too am deep…

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 5

Harriet Armstrong will be talking about coming of age and debut novels with Rosalind Brown next week on 14 August. Tickets here www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Harriet Armstrong & Rosalind Brown: Lessons in Inner Life

From Thu 14 Aug - Two razor-sharp debut novelists talk with Sasha de Buyl about the fitful, lurching paths we take on the coming-of-age journey…

www.edbookfest.co.uk

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 5

Michèle Roberts will be talking about French Cooking for One on 20 August at Elliott’s. Tickets here www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Dinner for One: A Table Talk with Michèle Roberts

From Wed 20 Aug - Booker-shortlisted author of Daughters of the House, Michèle Roberts' career has spanned fiction, poetry, and memoir. The constant through-line, though, is food, so it's almost surpr...

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Aug 5

@edbookfest.bsky.social starts this weekend! Will we see you there? We have two authors going this year - Michèle Roberts and Harriet Armstrong!

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Jul 29

So great to see TROMAB listed in the predictions, but sadly, as a small press, we were not able to enter a book that published in June, and for which we did not have review copies by the end of January (end of the submission window). Hoping to submit this year!

Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · Jul 29

Looking to add new things to your autumn TBR list?
Our next title is Blackout by Yann Chateigné Tytelman (translated by Clem Clement), an essay on grief, silence and art, out this October.
You can preorder it for £10.99 here www.lesfugitives.com/2025/yann-ch...

Blackout — Les Fugitives

Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Blackout, Les Fugitives, ambient music, Brian Eno, David Toop, La Monte Young, parapsychology, audioscopic research, Friedrich Jürgenson, Robert Rauschenberg, White Paintings,...

www.lesfugitives.com

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨 OUT THIS WEEK!

New episode lifted from Fiction First, our summer live show featuring six of this year’s most outstanding debut novelists.

@serpents-tail.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social
@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @judecook.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social

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