July’s Best International Crime Fiction
As temperatures and travel prices soar, it’s time to skip the vacation and dive into an international crime novel instead! This month’s fiction in translation features a South Korean ps…
"The novel’s strengths lie in its relentless drive, clear-eyed judgement, and focus on empathy: every action is understandable, yet none are forgivable."
Great review of Red Water by Jurica Pavičić on @crimereads.bsky.social
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28.07.2025 08:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Orbetello Book Prize 2025
Orbetello Book Prize - Maremma Tuscany Coast IV edition June 27-29, Special Mention to Prestìa Career Tribute to Ben Pastor.
We are thrilled to share the news that Bitter Lemon author Ben Pastor has been awarded the prestigious Orbetello Book Prize for Lifetime Achievement. We are proud to have 8 of her books on our list! More details here 👇
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15.07.2025 09:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to @orendabooks.bsky.social! We were delighted to make it to shortlist in such great company 🙌
04.07.2025 13:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Started a new book this afternoon: Hunkeler’s Secret by Hansjörg Schneider, published by @bitterlemonpress.bsky.social
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28.06.2025 14:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Red Water
A woman disappears after a beach party, and the search for her reveals Croatia's complex history well beyond the fall of Communism. Silva is beautiful and cheeky, she has many admirers; but the…
Finally, “Red Water” by Jurica Pavičić (tr. Matt Robinson, @bitterlemonpress.bsky.social ) is “centered around the years-long process of uncovering the truth behind a crime,” but it’s also about how “human stories can get lost in societal conflicts.” www.bitterlemonpress.com/products/red...
30.06.2025 20:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Award Ceremony 2025
During a grand evening at the Stockholm Concert Hall on June 9, the 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Laureate was given to Bitter Lemon author Marion Brunet. The award was presented by His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip. Check out all the news and photos here:
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18.06.2025 13:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Best summer books of 2025: Crime and Thrillers
Barry Forshaw and Adam LeBor select their best mid-year reads
So excited to see Red Water by Jurica Pavičić selected in this 'Best Summer Books of 2025' round-up in the @financialtimes.com
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17.06.2025 08:58 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🥳 JUNE NEWSLETTER 🥳 Check out all our latest news and find out about our new international multi-award winning thriller from #Croatia. Written by Jurica Pavičic, and translated by Matt Robinson, it's been described as 'outstanding' by 2 x UK national newspapers! 👇
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12.06.2025 08:56 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We are so thrilled to be included in this @thecwa.bsky.social Dagger shortlist - and look at the company we are in! 👏
29.05.2025 09:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reading in bed with Harry. @bitterlemonpress.bsky.social
29.05.2025 08:55 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Publishing today by @bitterlemonpress.bsky.social
is #RedWater by Jurica Pavicic. I'm on the @annerandomthings.bsky.social Blog Tour on 2nd June. I think this is going to be my kind of novel.
22.05.2025 12:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Around the world in five new thrillers — from New York to Nordic noir
Crime in the war-ravaged Balkans of the 1990s, a plot against the UN, geopolitics in Greenland and a Danish police procedural
Another incredible review for Jurica Pavičić’s 'Red Water' - this time from Adam LeBor in @financialtimes.com
"Outstanding....This finely engineered, haunting novel has been deservedly garlanded with awards."
Around the world in five new thrillers:
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19.05.2025 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A chance to win some fantastic Croatian goodies, courtesy of our friends over at @tripfiction.bsky.social Details below! 👇
19.05.2025 11:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So delighted to see that Joan Smith has chosen 'Red Water' by Jurica Pavičić as one of her May crime thriller picks in
@thetimes.com She describes it as 'this outstanding novel' and we agree! 👏 #Croatia #CrimeThriller #Fiction
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14.05.2025 13:02 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Spy & Political Fiction Roundup May 25 | Crime Time
Amazing to see Red Water by Jurica Pavičić, our first novel from #Croatia, included in this round up on Crime Time!
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13.05.2025 13:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Competition time!
If you would like to be in with a chance of winning two tickets to Warwick Racecourse, all you have to do is purchase a copy of “Runaway Horses” from Warwick Books in the month of May and they will do the rest!
Go to warwickbooks.net to place your order now! 🏇
07.05.2025 14:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To celebrate the release of 'Hunkeler's Secret', we have a full set of this international crime series to give away thanks to our very kind pals at Bitter Lemon Press. Follow us and @bitterlemonpress.bsky.social , like and share this to be in with a chance of winning.
Closes 8pm BST on 11/5. UK only
06.05.2025 19:14 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our first published author from Croatia! Welcome aboard Jurica Pavičić #Croatia
Red Water is out in the UK on 22nd May and on 24th June in the US.
07.05.2025 12:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Very exciting to see The Lover of No Fixed Abode on the list! Translated by @gregorydowling.bsky.social 🙌 Good luck to everyone nominated!
16.04.2025 09:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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