Summer 2025 Preview
Posted 25th March 2025
JULY
I Remember by Joe Brainard | With a new foreword by Olivia Laing | Introduction by Paul Auster | Non-Fiction | £7.99 | 3 July 2025
An enduring gem, I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic. As autobiography, Brainard’s method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain ‘I remember’.
‘One of the twenty or so most important American autobiographies.’ New Yorker
Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje | Debut Fiction | £10.99 | 17 July 2025
This book explores what it means to come of age in a country younger than oneself, as it sets a sensual, decades-long love story against an emerging Croatia.
‘Deeply felt, humane, gorgeously written.’ Claire Lombardo
False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia by María Sonia Cristoff | Translated by Katherine Silver | Non-Fiction | £10.99 | 31 July 2025
Part reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm finds Argentinian author María Sonia Cristoff writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia as she journeys from one small town to the next.
‘A bold, beautiful book.’ New York Times
AUGUST
Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton | With a new introduction by Rita Bullwinkel | Non-Fiction | £13.99 | 14 August 2025
A modern classic of sports writing and memoir, Swimming Studies reflects on the author’s time immersed in a world of rigour and determination, routine and competition. When she trades athletic pursuits for artistic ones, the metrics of moving through water endure.
‘Exquisite… brilliant, eccentric and moving – an immersion in a life.’ Observer
Other People by Celia Dale | Fiction| £10.99 | 28 August 2025
Other People is a compelling coming-of-age novel, told with Dale’s trademark wit, observation and canny dissemination of relationships.
‘Hilarious, dark and true.’ Camilla Grudova