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Up Next
March 2025:
IRON LUNG BY KIRSTINE REFFSTRUP, TRANSLATED FROM DANISH BY HUNTER SIMPSON
A poetic tale of two children separated by time and space, connected by their yearning for embodiment and belonging.
May 2025:
SUPPORTING ACT BY AGNES LIDBECK, TRANSLATED FROM SWEDISH BY NICHOLA SMALLEY
A sharp and ruthless novel about the cost of living according to ‘the rules', Supporting Act is the study of a woman performing the roles society expects of her, even as they overlap, contradict and subsume each other.
July 2025:
FOUR BY FOUR BY SARA MESA, TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY KATIE WHITTEMORE
The children who attend Wybrany College are either wealthy, or somehow special. The cloistered school appears to be a safe haven from the chaos which overwhelms the city outside – but the college has its own agenda, and something wicked lurks just beneath the surface.
September 2025:
IMAGINE BREAKING EVERYTHING BY LINA MUNAR GUEVARA, TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY ELLEN JONES
A rainy weekend in Bogotá, and Melissa is about to graduate from high school. If, that is, she can scrape together the money to pay for the printer she broke. A novel from Colombia about class, gender and family.
October 2025:
SEA NOW BY EVA MEIJER, TRANSLATED FROM DUTCH BY ANNE THOMPSON MELO
The country is flooding. Every day the sea claims another kilometre of the land. The Prime Minister holds a daily press conference, and the Ministry of Defence sends soldiers to the dykes. The king leaves the country. Sea Now is a novel about the greatest global challenge of our time.
