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Join us this Thursday at Blackwells in Manchester for festive night of Book shenanigans with some cracking writers!

Tickets available here:
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'Act Normal is not so much a memoir as the butterfly musings of the genius Peter Kalu. ... Peter writes as if possessed by the ghosts of his past. The reader will encounter an almost Dickensian roll call of characters for whom the word “eccentric” barely scratches the surface.'
-Marcia Hutchinson 🧡

Join HopeRoad and Pete Kalu this Thursday December 4th for the Northern Fiction Alliance Winter Showcase! @northernfiction.bsky.social

Usher in the festive season with some of your favourite writers, mince pies and cheers. ❤️ ❄️📚

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Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson,is BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime in December.

All episodes are now available on BBC Sounds and the first episode broadcasts tonight Monday 1st December at 22:45pm on BBC Radio 4. 🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m002mz6t

SMALL BOAT is BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.

The first episode of the drama inspired by the actual events of November 2021 broadcasts Monday 1st December at 10:45pm.

Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Rest in peace to Jimmy Cliff ❤️
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Happy Publication Day to ACT NORMAL: JOY AND DESPAIR IN POSTCOLONIAL BRITAIN by Pete Kalu

Find your copy now to discover why it is safer to be an amoeba than a stilt-walker. 💙

www.hoperoadpublishing.com/books/act-no...

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An evening of engaging discussion @hatchards.bsky.social with Véronique Tadjo about her novel In the Company of Men @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social She highlighted the importance of solidarity in times of despair.
Join us at our next book club, Mon 10 Nov 6pm, focus: Oliver Norek The Winter Warriors

OTHER WILD this Saturday 11th with Emily Zobel Marshall, 2025 Bookshop Day Ambassador, at Waterstones Leeds. Chaired by Sai Murray, the event explores collection and the lives of errant women&creatures.

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Info: www.waterstones.com/events/emily...

Award winning author Pete Kalu returns with a kaleidoscopic memoir that explodes with life in 250 errant mini-essays. Act Normal: Joy and Despair in Postcolonial Britain publishes October 23rd. Celebrate with us🎈

Tickets: houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/author...

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Join us this Thursday in Leeds at Next Chapter Books to celebrate the latest novel by @amandasmythstories.bsky.social and the upcoming collection by @emilyzmarshall.bsky.social.

Tickets and information here: www.nextchapterleeds.co.uk/events/p/pee...

Can't wait to see you there! 🥰💙

When I left India, Ireland welcomed me in. I won’t let bigotry destroy the country we love | Cauvery Madhavan People from the Indian community, and others, are facing violence that was once unthinkable. We must not give in to the racists, says novelist Cauvery Madhavan

Very pleased to read this powerful piece by @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social for The Guardian
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Thank you Sally!

Book cover of The Inheritance @CauveryMadhavan Small house in the hills and two boys in a forest, one on white which suggests he's a ghost.

Loved The Inheritance @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
Donal Ryan vibes.
Marlo inherits a cottage in rural Ireland, falls in love with Kitty whose son has links with a boy from the Battle of Kinsale. Great chrs & fabulous writing.
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Come with us across London’s bookshops to search for PEN Translates books in the wild – part 2!

All of our PEN Translates award-winning titles are recognisable by the ‘winner English PEN award’ roundel on their front covers. Look out for it next time you’re browsing your local bookshop!

With the Lionesses through to the #Euro2025 final we can't think of a better week to celebrate the publication of Manisha Tailors's new book Women: The Heartbeat of Sport.

Explore the YA must-read here: hoperoadpublishing.com/books/women-...

Look at You is a powerful novel that follows its young narrator as she grows up between Trinidad, England, and Ireland.

“A beautiful, moving, and cleverly structured collage of a novel.”
— Neel Mukherjee

“A remarkable novel.”
— Monique Roffey

More info: www.peepaltreepress.com/books/look-a...

We have just signed two amazing new poetry books for 2026! These are returning members of the Peepal Tree family, so we know you'll all be pleased to see their latest work:

* Riddled by Tanya Shirley
* Before the Rain by Christine Craig

Coming 25 September 2025: The House in Bacolet by David Lambert

Hugh and Julia want to ‘get involved’ in the life of their new island home in Tobago — little suspecting how much the past horrors of slavery, and their best intentions, will impact their lives.

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Join Cauvery Madhavan, author of The Inheritance, this Saturday at #BantryBookshop as part of West Cork Literary Festival - info on the free event below. 🍀📗
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Small Boat: Vincent Delecroix on Asylum, Responsibility & the Limits of Sympathy Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa · Episode

Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson is Dua Lipa's Monthly Read for July for the Service95 Book Club.

Watch the interview below🔗 and find Vincent's reading list and playlist at the Service95 website.

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The Inheritance by Cauvery Madhavan - read an extract It's 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O'Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the st...

We love this novel by our West Cork neighbour @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social. Cauvery will be chatting about The Inheritance in #BantryBookshop on Sat 12 July at 11.30am as part of WCLF. #FreeEvent @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
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GIVEAWAY : 3 copies of PARO by Namita Gokhale - MUMBAI / DELHI - TripFiction GIVEAWAY: 3 copies of Paro by Namita Gokhale - MUMBAI / DELHI in the 1970s Transport yourself back to 1970s Mumbai / Delhi with the classic tale: Paro by

#WIN 1 of 3 copies of Paro by Namita Gokhale

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1970s #Mumbai #delhi

Ends 12 July. UK only

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Lead Review (Paro) - TripFiction 3.75* Priya is the 'voyeur and diarist' of the comings and goings of Paro, a striking woman who holds sway wherever she goes. "..being a Beautiful Woman.

#Bookreview:

Paro by Namita Gokhale, short novel set in 1970s/80s #INDIA (Bombay/Delhi)

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Paro: Dreams of Passion publishes tomorrow. Discover Namita Gokhale's "serio-comic début novel of lust, lucre, sex and suicide" here hoperoadpublishing.com/books/paro-d...
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Screenshot of a slide announcing the winner of the 2025 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize: The Darkness of Colours, by Martín Blasco, translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Claire Storey

Congratulations to Claire Storey, translator of The Darkness of Colours by Martín Blasco - winner of the 2025 #GLLITranslatedYABookPrize!
Claire is our former blog co-editor and is a tireless champion of translated YA/kid lit!
Congratulations to the author and to @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social too!

Congratulations to the 2025 GLLI Translated Young Adult Book Prize winner & honor books The 2025 Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) Translated Young Adult Book Prize Committee is pleased to announce the winner and honor books for the 2025 prize.  This is the seventh year…

The 2025 GLLI Translated Young Adult Book Prize goes to “engaging and often unsettling” The Darkness of Colours by Martín Blasco, translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Claire Storey, published by @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social. glli-us.org/2025/04/17/2...
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Enjoying this on a sunny day in Leeds! @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social

YouTube video by Translators Aloud Claire Storey reads from Martín Blasco's THE DARKNESS OF COLOURS (HopeRoad/Peepal Tree Press, 2024)

HUGE congrats to Claire Storey for winning the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative's 2025 Translated YA Book Prize, for her translation of Martín Blasco's THE DARKNESS OF COLOURS (@hoperoadpublish.bsky.social). Here's a reading from the book by the translator herself!
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Indie publishers enjoy full sweep of 2025 International Booker shortlist for first time ever

The 2025 International Booker shortlist has been announced 👇