Spring 2025 preview
Posted 8th October 2024
JANUARY
The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick | Foreword by Amy Key |Non-fiction – Modern Classics | £10.99 | 16 January 2025
Set in New York, this book explores the rhythms, chance meetings, and ever-changing relationships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city that has done the same.
‘Among the supreme essayists of the last fifty years.’ New Statesman
The Edges by Angelo Tijssens | Translated by Michele Hutchison | Debut Fiction | £9.99 | 30 January 2025
A man returns to his hometown to clear out the flat of his recently deceased mother. While there, he cannot resist visiting his former lover. As the storm rages in the night outside, he finds in the man’s embrace some kind of quiet; some kind of home.
A profound exploration of masculinity, connection and the idea of home.
‘A book that feels like heartache – at once tender & violent, intimate & lyrical.’ Seán Hewitt
FEBRUARY
Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick | Debut Fiction | £9.99 | 27 February 2025
Set against a backdrop of strikes and economic unrest in the 1980s Dark Like Under is at the same time languorous with sun-soaked, rural beauty. Thrumming with life, this luminous debut captures the promise and risk of late adolescence and is a profound exploration of friendship, loneliness and grief.
MARCH
Tragic Magic by Wesley Brown | Foreword by Mendez | Fiction – Modern Classics | £9.99 | 13 March 2025
Rhythm, blues and jazz is baked into each page, with the sounds of the city – barbershop talk, lively gossip, overheard conversations – imprinted in every word. Wesley Brown boldly explores magnetic but dangerous avatars of Black masculinity in crisis, with a style that’s even more provoking than its subject.
‘A tremendous affirmation. One hell of a writer.’ James Baldwin
On the Clock by Claire Baglin | Translated by Jordan Stump | Debut Fiction | £9.99 | 27 March 2025
A voice-driven, penetrating novel of the exploitation and alienation of the working class. On the Clock is a compelling exploration of social inequality. Writing with nimble nuance, a sly, subtle wit, and a sharp ear, Claire Baglin is as a blazingly original talent.
‘A sophisticated new voice exploring the French working-class experience and the ways in which language may express its precarious specificities.’ Times Literary Supplement
APRIL
Freewheeling: Essays on Cycling | Various Contributors | Non-fiction | £10.99 | 10 April 2025
Building on the success of our Pond, Kitchen, Garden, Dog and River anthologies, comes an evocative celebration of life on two wheels, touching on the joy, exhilaration and serenity to be found while cycling, and how bikes become an extension of ourselves, a type of armour, and a metaphor for life.
Contributors include Yara Rodrigues Fowler & Xani Byrne, Mina Holland, Annie Lord, Jon McGregor Moya Lothian-McLean and Dervla Murphy.
Life In Spite of Everything by Victoria Donovan | Non-fiction | HB with photographs | £20.00 | 24 April 2025
A cultural portrait of the Donbas region of Ukraine, and an urgent, essential read. Speaking to artists, railway workers, miners, and young people who have grown up amidst instability and destruction, Donovan documents local efforts to resist cultural erasure and reveals the intensely personal lived reality of Putin’s war.
MAY
The City and the House by Natalia Ginzburg | Translated by Dick Davies | Foreword by Natasha Brown | Fiction – Modern Classics | £9.99 | 08 May 2025
From the author of All Our Yesterdays and The Little Virtues, an epistolary novel full of humanity, passion, and keen perception.
The sale of Le Margherite marks the end of an era and its old inhabitants and visitors are left to pursue happiness on their own. Their stories unfold through an exchange of letters that reveal with great poignancy the thoughts, passions and desires of the protagonists.
That’s All I Know by Elisa Levi | Translated by Christina MacSweeney | Debut Fiction | 22 May 2025
A propulsive, bewitching novel about home and family, the ache of unrealised dreams and the quiet tragedy of unrequited love.
A novel of rural entrapment and coming of age, That’s All I Know bears the traces of Beckett and Lorca, rings with the echo of folktales and has a fierce, unapologetic vitality at its heart.
JUNE
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga | Debut Fiction | £9.99 | 5 June 2025
In present-day New York City, an Albanian interpreter reluctantly agrees to work with Alfred, a Kosovar torture survivor, during his therapy sessions. Despite her husband’s cautions, she soon becomes entangled in her clients’ struggles.
Ruminative and propulsive, Ledia Xhoga’s debut novel interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation, as well as the power of language.
Lifeblood: A Mother in Search of Hope by Mina Holland | Non-fiction | £10.99 | 19 June 2025
A raw, honest and moving memoir of caring for a baby with a rare and life-threatening illness. Intensely personal and yet exploring universal truths, Lifeblood is a beautiful and profound memoir of learning to look beyond the normal and cherish the precious present.