Thursday the 13th of March marks a celebration of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2025 shortlist, which includes Célina by Catherine Axelrad (tr. Philip Terry).

Join us at the Deptford Lounge on the 13th at 6:45pm for readings from shortlisted writers and translators followed by conversation and an audience Q&A. Philip Terry will be reading from Célina.

The event is free to attend. More information can be found at the Deptford Lounge website.

Join the ORB for our HT25 showcase panel on present preoccupations and future directions in food writing! Featured panelists included Michèle Roberts, FT food critic Tim Hayward, Diane Purkiss (author of English Food: A People’s History), bestselling food writer and editor of Pit Magazine Helen Graves and food photographer and founder of Towpath Café (Hoxton, London) Jason Lowe.

Doors open at 6.40 for a 7pm start. Tickets from £5.50. Bookings and further details here.

On Wednesday the 19th of February at 6:30pm, join us once more at the legendary Hatchards Piccadilly for a scintillating discussion between Michèle Roberts and Alice Blackhurst, author of Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image, discussing Michèle’s first cookbook French Cooking for One, her childhood in Normandy, her life in Pays de la Loire, cooking, eating, writing, and more.

Tickets are available through Eventbrite, with a special price for Hatchards Reward Card holders.

Join Michèle Roberts at Topping & Company Booksellers Edinburgh, where she will discuss her new cookbook French Cooking for One with her trademark charm and humour, and perform a cooking demonstration for the first time, ever!

Tickets can be purchased from the Topping & Company website, with an early bird price currently available which includes a copy of French Cooking for One.

To celebrate the publication of Charlotte Beeston’s debut novel The White Flower, join us at the Riverside Bookshop (London Bridge) for an evening with the author.
NB: Entry is free, but space and facilities are limited, so if you would like to attend please confirm by email to info@lesfugitives.com to be added to the guest list.

The Riverside Bookshop, 15 Hay’s Galleria, Tooley Street, London SE1 2QN

We will be celebrating the launch of Célina by Catherine Axelrad, translated by Philip Terry, at Brick Lane Bookshop on the 28th of June at 7pm. As the book’s release date is the 18th of July, this is a great opportunity to get your copy early!

There will be a reading by the author as well as a Q&A with the translator, and of course the opportunity to have your copy of Célina signed. Refreshments will be provided. Tickets are £5 each, available from the Brick Lane Bookshop website.

Penelope Curtis will be in discussion about her debut novel After Nora with Radical author Xiaolu Guo at Hatchards’ flagship store. Tickets and full details are available on Eventbrite.

On the 29th of May 2024, Penelope Curtis will be at the Fruitmarket Bookshop in Edinburgh for a reading of After Nora followed by a discussion of her work with bookshop manager Allison Everett. Admission is free, and the event is not ticketed. For more information, see the Fruitmarket Bookshop events page.

Emilienne Malfatto, author of May the Tigris Grieve for You, translated by Lorna Scott Fox, will be making an exceptional visit to the UK for a reading of her work by Maia Mutawi, Naima Rashid, and Lorna Scott Fox as part of the Beyond Words Festival. All details and tickets can be found on the festival event page.

May the Tigris Grieve for You was longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize.

On Monday the 29th of April, Penelope Curtis will be at Typewronger Books in Edinburgh to celebrate the release of her first novel, After Nora with a reading and Q&A, followed by drinks. Details can be found on the Typewronger Facebook events page and will soon be available to view on the Typewronger website events list. The event is free.

Join us at Ink@84 in North London to celebrate the launch of Chicanes by Clara Schulmann, translated by Lauren Elkin, Natasha Lehrer, Naima Rashid, Ruth Diver, Sophie Lewis, Jessica Spivey, Jennifer Higgins, and Clem Clement.

This is a free event, with an option to buy a copy of the book (free drink with every purchase!).

“This beautiful and original book [...] captures the sounds of women’s emotions; the overflow of excess and the lapse into silence.” – Laura Mulvey

For more information and tickets, please follow this link.

“This beautiful and original book [...] captures the sounds of women’s emotions; the overflow of excess and the lapse into silence.” – Laura Mulvey

For the second event in Foyles’ OK Translator programme, Clara Schulmann and three of her translators – Lauren Elkin, Sophie Lewis and Naima Rashid – will be in conversation with Catherine Taylor about Chicanes, Schulmann’s study in the female voice.

Chicanes creates a portrait of female consciousness through a subtly crafted use of voice. Clara Schulmann is planning an essay and in the process gathers the voices of numerous female figures in the history of feminist writing and thought, and of other women she speaks to, from telephone conversations with friends to strangers on the street. These voices begin to shape the form and meaning of her essay in ways she did not expect. In a further fine-tuning of Clara Schulmann’s experiment in female voice, her work comes into English through the work of eight female translators.

For more information and tickets, please follow this link.

On the 16th of February, Borderless Book Club will be featuring Absence by Lucie Paye, translated by Natasha Lehrer. Borderless Book Club is an online event series dedicated to translated literature that takes place online (via Zoom) on every third Thursday of the month. Their aim is to provide an accessible discussion space where readers can meet and hear directly from translators and publishers.

On Absence, Ángel Gurría-Quintana wrote: ‘In this remarkable debut, the story of a painter fixated with a ghostly female figure becomes entwined with the story of a woman seeking to connect with a long-lost son. A delicate tale of artistic obsession and creation, and a moving meditation on longing and loss.’ — Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2022

For more information and tickets, please follow this link.

"Lauren Elkin is one of our most valuable critical thinkers - the Susan Sontag of her generation." - Deborah Levy

At an evening organised by Trouble Club, Lauren Elkin will talk about No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute, as well as the process of translating The Inseperables, the continued significance of feminist writers like Simone de Beauvoir and how her love of French culture translates onto the page.

More info and tickets here: https://www.thetroubleclub.com/events/lauren-elkin-on-simone-de-beauvoir-and-a-year-on-the-bus

We invite you to join Erica Van Horn, and toast the publication of We Still Have the Telephone on 27 October at Tenderbooks. Starts at 6pm, with a reading from Erica at 6.45pm.

Please RSVP to Jessie, at publicist@lesfugitives.com

To mark the launch of Girl Online: A User Manual, acclaimed author Joanna Walsh will be in conversation with Lauren Elkin to discuss several points raised in the book about ‘What happens when a woman goes online?’ Lauren Elkin’s No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute was published by Les Fugitives last year.

The event will be held at Camden Art Centre and is free to attend. For more information and to book online, please see the Camden Art Centre’s event page here.