Les Fugitives

📚 GIVEAWAY TIME 📚 • Who will be our first 1000-and-something subscribers? • We’ve just reached 999 email subscribers. We are very grateful to everyone of you who is taking the time to keep up with Les Fugitives news! As a thank you, the 1000th subscriber will be able to claim a free copy of the published book of their choice on our website. The next 40 subscribers after that will receive a 40% promo code for a published book of their choice. We will contact the winners by email. Thank you from Les Fugitives.

We are delighted to announce that WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS by Olufemi Terry is published today. When Emil’s father suggests he set aside his studies to help steady his cousin’s life, the young neurosurgeon-in-training moves in with indifferent relatives in Stadmutter, an unfamiliar, deeply divided city at Africa’s southern tip. There he is drawn to Tamsin, a white doctoral student, and Bolling, a wealthy Haitian-German whose reactionary ideas hold a curious allure. Beneath Stadmutter’s languid surface, a gathering Creole movement is straining the country’s fragile racial peace. Through Bolling’s machinations, Emil is pulled into events that threaten his future and pushed towards irrevocable choices. Olufemi Terry, born in Sierra Leone and educated in Yorkshire and New York, is a writer, essayist and journalist. His short fiction has been published in Guernica, The Georgia Review, Chimurenga, and The Granta Book of the African Short Story, and translated into French and German. He lives in Germany and Côte d’Ivoire. Wilderness of Mirrors is available to order at the link in our bio and UK bookshops.

Many congratulations to Harriet Armstrong, who age 25 is the youngest author on the shortlist of this year’s @dylanthomasprize for her debut novel To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, joining fellow novelists Colwill Brown, Seán Hewitt, Derek Owusu, and poets Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Suzannah V Evans. Winners will be announcement 14 May.

In this exclusive reading, 2026 @swanseauni Dylan Thomas Prize shortlisted author, Harriet Armstrong (@harrietarmstrong2000 ), reads an extract from her stunning debut novel, 'To Rest Our Minds and Bodies' (@les.fugitives.press ). Will Harriet be crowned our 2026 winner? Join us LIVE! from 6pm (BST) on Thursday 14th May via our award ceremony livestream. See the link in our bio. #SUDTP26

📕 COVER REVEAL 📕 • New fiction • Our next title is Penelope Curtis’s follow-up to After Nora (Les Fugitives, 2024). VILLA WINTREBERT will be out 3 July 2026.

🎧 OUT NOW! Hear an exclusive interview with Harriet Armstrong (@harrietarmstrong2000 ), author of 'To Rest Our Minds and Bodies', shortlisted for 2026 prize. Armstrong is in conversation with @swanseauni English Literature (@writingandeng.lit_swanseauni ) students Isabel Rojo Llorens, Jorja Thomas, and Kate Atkinson. ▶️ Listen via the link to 'Bookends Podcast' in our bio! #SUDTP26

📖 OUT NOW 📖 • Fiction • Exquisitely written, absorbing and original, Wilderness of Mirrors is Caine Prize winner Olufemi Terry’s transfixing fiction debut. A prescient novel of ideas set in a parallel, contemporary southern part of Africa still reeling from the effects of racial Partition.

The latest reprint of To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong, with the @dylanthomasprize shortlist sticker, just arrived at the office. Our poshest edition to date.

US readers, this is a reminder that you can check the Asterism website to find Les Fugitives books. ZOMBIE PROUST by Jérôme Prieur (translated by Nancy Kline) and GLOSS by @kyracwilder now available to order.

Congratulations to Harriet Armstrong (@harrietarmstrong2000 ) and all at @les.fugitives.press for being shortlisted for 'To Rest Our Minds and Bodies.' #SUDTP26

This Saturday is World Poetry Day. For the occasion, we will be offering our first poetry collection, a grammar of the world by Jeanne Benameur (tr. Bill Johnston), at the discounted price of £10.99 on our website for Saturday 21 March only. Drawing on subjects as diverse as the author’s traumatic childhood flight from the Algerian War of Independence, the modern migrant crisis, the transformative power of writing, and for a child, of literacy, and the long history of the Mediterranean, a grammar of the world is brought into harmony by the central figure of the Egyptian goddess, who personifies a careful reknitting of the world and repairing of ancient wounds through the act of writing.

The shortlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2026 has been announced and we are so pleased to see To Rest Our Minds And Bodies from @les.fugitives.press made the cut! Congratulations to everyone involved! The winner will be announced May 14th! #DylanThomasPrize2026 #LiteraryPrize #Fiction #sudtp26