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'It's dangerous to be different where everyone else is alike. Have you noticed?' Peirene No. 28 Children of the Cave
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Peirene No. 30Available soonFaces on the Tip of My Tongue
Emmanuelle PaganoWill be published in September 2019. Available August 2019 through our subscription service. Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France…
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Peirene No. 29Available soonYou Would Have Missed Me
Birgit VanderbekeWill be published in June 2019. Available April 2019 through our subscription service. By the author of Peirene’s bestseller The Mussel…
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£12.00 Virve Sammalkorpi‘It’s dangerous to be different where everyone else is alike. Have you noticed?’ 1819. Iax Agolasky, a young assistant to…
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‘An invaluable memoir’ and ‘a triumph’ the EBRD Jury reviews Peirene books
The EBRD Prize Jury share their thoughts on the books long listed for the 2019 EBRD Literature Prize – two of which happen to be Peirene Books!
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Three Peirene books have been longlisted for literary prizes!
Dance by the Canal, Soviet Milk and Shatila Stories have all been longlisted for literary prizes – Soviet Milk has even appeared on two separate lists!
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An interview with Shadows on the Tundra translator Delija Valiukenas
Dalia’s memoir was not a new discovery for me. A friend in Lithuania sent it to me in 1997, as soon as it hit the bookstores. It was a bombshell of a discovery to Lithuanians in the homeland, who had known nothing of Siberia and the fate of the deportees.
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