An award-winning independent publisher of new voices and great books from around the world.

‘The foreign literature specialist.’

The Sunday Times

‘A class act.’

The Guardian

Featured Books

Subscriptions

Every year Peirene publishes at least six books and sends them directly to subscribers. We search high and low for the most exciting voices from around the world, and introduce them to English-language readers. Subscribe now to get our new books ahead of publication and to support independent publishing. We offer four different types of subscription – our six-book subscription, our three-book novella subscription and single year gift subscriptions of both options – perfect for that surprise gift for a loved one.

Find out More

Get it first

All our books are sent to subscribers 6-8 weeks before publication. You also receive subsidised UK shipping on every subscription book and 15% off all further purchases.

Read more widely

We select the best writers and stories from around the world and publish them in English translation for curious readers. 

Proudly Independent

We rely on our subscribers to sustain our work. Their commitment empowers us to make bold editorial choices and plans for the future.

Subscribe Now

SEA NOW AUTHOR TOUR

We’re excited to welcome the Dutch philosopher, artist and writer Eva Meijer to the UK in December to present Sea Now, a novel that chronicles the total flooding of the Netherlands from the perspective of a wide cast of characters, including a young poet, an oceanographer, the prime minister, a lost dog and the sea itself. Hailed as a ‘fabulist disaster novel, doubling as identity-of-the-nation commentary…’ in a recent review by Niall Harrison in Locus Magazine, Sea Now is timely, poetic and bound to spark debate. Join us in Edinburgh, Leeds, Exeter or London to hear from the author themselves. 

Topping and Company Edinburgh, with translator Anne Thompson Melo, 1 December Book here

Chapel Allerton Library, Leeds, with Horatio Clare, 2 December Book here

Quay Words at Custom House, Exeter, 3 December Book here

Housmans, London, with Lucy Mercer, 4 December Book here

The tour is part of New Dutch Writing, and supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature and The Embassy of The Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is also supported by Arts Council England. 

CLICK HERE