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- Reposted by bhousepressOur first Recovered Book from @bhousepress.bsky.social to be mentioned in Kirkus Reviews gets a starred review! Vengeance is Mine by Friedrich Torberg was written in exile in 1943. One of the earliest examples of Holocaust fiction, it's never before been translated.
- Reposted by bhousepressJust read this tremendous novella, which is so intense that it demands to be read in one gulp. Out next month.
- Our first Recovered Book from @bhousepress.bsky.social to be mentioned in Kirkus Reviews gets a starred review! Vengeance is Mine by Friedrich Torberg was written in exile in 1943. One of the earliest examples of Holocaust fiction, it's never before been translated.
- 2026 is already giving us plenty to talk about. Here’s a preview of what’s coming from our Recovered Books list this year, rediscovered by Neglected Books: - Vengeance Is Mine (March 2026) - An American Journey (May 2026) - We Too Are Drifting (August 2026) - Season's Greetings (November 2026)
- Happy New Year, everyone! Swipe for our 2026 ins and outs... Want to get the year off to a good start? Fill your basket with Boiler House Press books. We’ve got criticism, non-fiction, fiction, poetry… what are you waiting for?!
- 🎄CHRISTMAS CLOSURE PERIOD🎄 ‼️We won’t be processing orders placed between the 22nd of the December 2025 and the 5th of January 2026, as this is our closure period.
- Please note our social media account will also not be monitored during this time — we’ll be back to business as usual on the 5th of January! Thank you for all your support this year!
- Makeshift’s virtual launch day is almost upon us! Join us for the launch of Makeshift by Sarah Campion, the newest addition to the Recovered Books Series from Boiler House Press.
- Hosted by Brad Bigelow @neglectedbooks.com, author of Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts (University of Nebraska Press) and editor of the Recovered Books series, the discussion will feature:
- Diana Wichtel, author of Driving to Treblinka (Awa Press), winner of the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-fiction at the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and the former daughter-in-law of Sarah Campion.
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View full threadAnd if you haven’t already, now’s the chance to grab your copy of Makeshift:
- LAUNCH DAY! Makeshift by Sarah Campion is out today! Sarah Campion tells the story of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from the end of the First World War and the time of the Weimar Republic to the rise of Nazism and Hitler's takeover as Reichs Chancellor.
- Driven into exile, she roams from England to South Africa and Australia before settling, uneasily, in New Zealand. Makeshift details Charlotte's struggle to establish her identity in an unstable and intolerant world Get your copy now:
- In case you’re still thinking about it, here are some reasons that’ll convince you to read Makeshift by Sarah Campion Order your copy NOW: www.boilerhouse.pres...
- We’re very happy to announce that Red House Alley by Else Jerusalem, translated by Stephanie Gorrell Ortega, has been longlisted for The Freudenheim Translation Prize! 🎉
- The inaugural prize (the most ambitious award in the Jewish Literary Foundation’s history) recognises exceptional fiction and non-fiction works translated into English that explore themes of Jewish history, identity, or culture, or are of significant interest to Jewish and international audiences.
- Get your copy copy here: www.boilerhouse.pres... Huge congratulations to all those longlisted! @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk @neglectedbooks.com #smallpress #indiepress #books #freudenheimtranslationprize #jewishliteraryfoundation #longlist #translatedliterature #translatedfiction
- We publish ‘Makeshift’ by Sarah Campion at the end of next month! Pre-order now here: www.boilerhouse.pres... ‘Makeshift’ is a fascinating and long-neglected novel about the struggle to establish an identity in an unstable and intolerant world, told in an unforgettable voice. @neglectedbooks.com
- Here’s what critics have said about this incredible publication: "High praise is due to Miss Campion's gift of descriptive writing. Charlotte Herz is a completely consistent character, intensely interesting and absolutely alive." — Times Literary Supplement
- "Here is a writer with the drive of a steam engine, a writer never content with compromise. A splendid and disturbing novel." — New Statesman
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View full threadFinally, driven into exile, she roams from England to South Africa and Australia before settling, uneasily, in New Zealand. Charlotte is a caustic and often bitingly funny observer with an irresistible narrative voice.
- The video of the virtual launch of Malachi Whitaker's keen-eyed, funny, and unconventional memoir, And So Did I, the latest in our Recovered Books series, is now available on YouTube. Whitaker's biographer Valerie Waterhouse and series editor Brad Bigelow discuss this fine little classic:
- Join us for the virtual launch of Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, And So Did I, the latest in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press. Tuesday, 14 October, at 7PM BST. Our special guests will be Catherine Taylor and Valerie Waterhouse. Register on Eventbrite:
- Reposted by bhousepressAvailable now, the latest in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social. Available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social.
- A book I have very much enjoyed this week: "And So Do I" by Bradford writer Malachi Whitaker, a sort of chronicle of 2 years in the late 1930s, first published in 1939 & newly republished. Irreverent, humorous, often startlingly honest, with an undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching.
- Reposted by bhousepressSpecial #bookmail today: the new Arabic translation of Herbert Clyde Lewis's rescued masterpiece, Gentleman Overboard. Out this week from Alkarma Books in Cairo. This little wonder has now been published in ten countries. Available from @bhousepress.bsky.social and @asterismbooks.bsky.social.
- Reposted by bhousepress🎅🔎 Searching for Santa Claus, my collection of the stories, poems and illustrations that shaped a global icon, has a cover (by the amazing Studio GRRR)! Available for preorder from @bhousepress.bsky.social now! 🎅👉 www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- Reposted by bhousepressThe included story is from Ruby’s collection THIS PARADISE which is all bangers. One of the best short story collections I’ve read in years. Available from @boilerhouse.bsky.social!
- My spine is tingling as a short from my @boilerhouse.bsky.social collection is in Ghost Box IV: a deluxe coffin of spooky/horror stories from Canadian publishers of gorgeous box sets Hingston & Olsen w/ texts selected by excellent human @pattonoswalt.bsky.social 🙏 Out today, print run very limited!
- Reposted by bhousepressOur next virtual launch from the Recovered Books series at @bhousepress.bsky.social will be for Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, And So Did I, on Tuesday, 14 October, at 7PM BST. Our special guests will be Catherine Taylor and Valerie Waterhouse. Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
- Reposted by bhousepressBack in 2019, I told my UEA tutor that Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I was one of the books I most wanted to reissue if I ever had a chance. And six years later, with the help of Valerie Waterhouse, Catherine Taylor, and @bhousepress.bsky.social, we have. (One reason to be cheerful today.)
- “And So Did I is an engrossing, often moving, beautifully written and contemplative work.” @kaggsy59.bsky.social offers an enthusiastic assessment of Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, out today in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press. Available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social
- “And So Did I is an engrossing, often moving, beautifully written and contemplative work.” @kaggsy59.bsky.social offers an enthusiastic assessment of Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, out today in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press. Available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social
- Available tomorrow, 30 September, from the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press: @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social's unique memoir, And So Did I, recovered with the help of @neglectedbooks.com, Valerie Waterhouse, and Catherine Taylor.
- Reposted by bhousepressI think Malachi Whitaker's (@malachiwhitaker.bsky.social) And So Did I has finally found its time and its readers. In 1939, and even when Carcanet reissued it in the 1980s, its "not any one thing-ness" was really held against it. Available to pre-order now from @bhousepress.bsky.social.
- Just receive this book by Malachi Whitaker with an intro by Katya Taylor. According to the New Statesman, it is ‘not an autobiography, not quite a journal, it combines in a most original way the qualities of both.’ Yes, please! #boilerhousepress #neglectedbooks #MalachiWhitaker #KatyaTaylor
- 📣Calling all fans of Out of Earth!!! Check out Sheyla Smanioto's short story Intruder, included in the latest issue of @fictionable.bsky.social
- A stranger comes to town, but there’s more than just the dish of the day on the menu in Sheyla Smanioto's short story Intruder, translated from Portuguese by Laura Garmeson and Sophie Lewis. www.fictionable.world/stories/intr... #books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #blog #podcast
- 🎉 Happy 2nd Anniversary to Sheyla Smanioto's Out of Earth!! 🎉 Out of Earth has been wildly popular with critics and with readers - if you want to see why, visit our website and grab yourself a copy: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- Check out Prospect Magazine's praise for Gertrude Trevelyan 💌 Trance By Appointment is published under our Recovered Books collection with @neglectedbooks.com - check it out on our website! If they love her, and we love her, then chances are you will too .. I mean, it just makes sense!
- She wrote eight acclaimed novels in seven years. Then Gertrude Trevelyan disappeared completely from literary history. Oliver Soden unravels one of literature’s greatest vanishing acts—and celebrates her return. www.prospectmagazine...
- 🎉Out of Earth on the @englishpen.bsky.social Pen Translates Bookshelf! ✍️English PEN is one of the world’s oldest human rights organisations, championing the freedom to write and the freedom to read around the world. Order your copy: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- 🚀LAUNCH DAY!🚀 🎉Happy publication day to Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan, the latest book in our Recovered Books series! Follow the link to get a copy: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- Curious about Norman Macleod's The Bitter Roots, originally published in 1941? Check out this brilliant review by @thepulp.org to find out what makes this vivid coming-of-age story so special! Available to order via our website: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- Reposted by bhousepressJoin us on Wednesday, 11 June, as we launch our newest Recovered Book from @bhousepress.bsky.social, Gertrude Trevelyan's utterly unknown Trance by Appointment, with novelist Louisa Treger and Dr. Rebecca Bowler of Keele University. Register now on Eventbrite. It's free. www.eventbrite.co.uk...
- Pre-order here! www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- In just one week, Boiler House Press (@bhousepress.bsky.social) will publish Gertrude Trevelyan's last novel, Trance by Appointment—out of print and virtually unavailable for over 85 years. Copies can be pre-ordered now from BoilerHouse.press in the UK and AsterismBooks.com in the US.
- Reposted by bhousepressIn just two weeks, Boiler House Press (@bhousepress.bsky.social) will publish Gertrude Trevelyan's last novel, Trance by Appointment—out of print and virtually unavailable for over 85 years. Copies can be pre-ordered now from BoilerHouse.press in the UK and AsterismBooks.com in the US.
- 🔮COMING SOON to the Boiler House Press Recovered Books series – Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan! Follow the link to find out more: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- Reposted by bhousepressThe renaissance of Herbert Clyde Lewis's little classic, Gentleman Overboard, available from @bhousepress.bsky.social, continues. Last week, the wonderful actress Maria Paiato kept an audience in Bergamo, Italy spellbound with her reading of the novel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRBE...
- Also on sale here! www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- Stella Benson's Pull Devil, Pull Baker is a remarkable work of what we'd call creative nonfiction today—written in 1933. It was the second of our Recovered Books from @bhousepress.bsky.social, but still too few have discovered this odd gem. On sale now from Asterism Books.
- 🚀Reminder to grab a ticket to the FREE virtual launch event for Solitary Confinement happening TOMORROW! Taking part in the discussion will be Hugh Purcell, Dr. Peter Burney, and Brad Bigelow. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
- Reposted by bhousepressStephanie Ortega reads the opening passage of Red House Alley, her translation of Else Jerusalem's landmark novel about sex workers in imperial Vienna. Red House Alley is available now in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social. youtu.be/b-Xg_xg41P4?...
- 🚀LAUNCH DAY!🚀 Happy publication day to Solitary Confinement by Christopher Burney, the latest book in our Recovered Books series with @neglectedbooks.com. Get your copy of this incredible book here: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- 🚀Launch event announcement!🚀 We're delighted to announce this exciting FREE virtual launch event for Solitary Confinement! Taking part in the discussion will be Hugh Purcell, Dr. Peter Burney, and Brad Bigelow @neglectedbooks.com. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
- Take a look! And if you fancy… pre-order here! www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- Ted Gioia, who wrote the introduction to our Recovered Books @bhousepress.bsky.social edition of Christopher Burney's Solitary Confinement, featured the book in his Substack, and in the next three days we sold out our first print run. Discover this remarkable book! open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
- Pre-order here! www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- Ted Gioia, who generously agreed to provide the introduction to our new edition from @bhousepress.bsky.social, reflects on Christopher Burney's Solitary Confinement as a classic of mindfulness: open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
- Reposted by bhousepressWe're thrilled to share this new reading by translator Stephanie Ortega, from Else Jerusalem's neglected gem RED HOUSE ALLEY, just out from @bhousepress.bsky.social, a searing, groundbreaking depiction of the Viennese sex trade that caused shock waves on its 1909 release. youtu.be/b-Xg_xg41P4?...
- "Mortal Leap has touches of Proust, Patricia Highsmith, Richard Stark, classic adventure narrative, and some of Albert Camus’s angst." A new review of Macdonald Harris's Mortal Leap, released a year ago in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/tosh/p/m...
- Not long to go! ⏰ Solitary Confinement by Christopher Burney will be released on 31st March - the latest instalment in our Recovered Books series with @neglectedbooks.com, bringing exceptional but forgotten books back into print. Pre-order your copy here: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- British & EU folks! www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- Coming on March 31st from the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: Solitary Confinement by Christopher Burney, a gripping memoir of surviving 526 days in isolation in a Gestapo prison cell. Pre-order now from Asterism Books. asterismbooks.com/product/soli...
- Reposted by bhousepress“We tend to narrow the field down to what we call 'the canon', and the corollary to having a canon of writers, like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, is that the other writers become neglected." On the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: stories.uea.ac.uk/recovered-bo...
- SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, coming 31st March 2025… Back in print after over 40 years thanks to @neglectedbooks.com, Solitary Confinement has quietly developed a reputation as a modern masterpiece of contemplative literature. Pre-order your copy here: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
- Excited for this!
- I'm happy to say that we will be reissuing Charley Smith's Girl as a Recovered Book from @bhousepress.bsky.social, with an introduction by @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social, in early 2026.
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- Stuck for an indefinite time with a bleak future and nothing but four walls and the thoughts bouncing off your skull. In Solitary Confinement, coming March 31 in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social, Christopher Burney tells how he survived and gained from this experience.
- Reposted by bhousepressOn this date in 2019, I wrote about Gertrude Trevelyan's As It Was in the Beginning, which one reviewer called "almost unreadable in its intensity." Trevelyan's most stylistically daring novel is now in print again from @bhousepress.bsky.social neglectedbooks.com/?...
- A new title from @bhousepress.bsky.social comes to mind.
- Reposted by bhousepressWithout a marketing budget or bands of loyal podcasters, the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social relies on word of mouth recommendations. So it's neat to see little chain reactions reflected in our sales numbers. Lately, this very odd 1960s teen horror story seems to be taking off.
- Reposted by bhousepressOn this date in 2019, I wrote about William's Wife by GertrudeTrevelyan (1938). I found it as riveting and horrifying as watching a car crash.... When I set the book down, I felt as if all the air has been sucked from my lungs. And now it's back in print from @bhousepress! neglectedbooks.com/?...
- Happening today!!
- Folks in the Austin, TX area: I'll be appearing with Stephanie Ortega, the translator of Else Jerusalem's Red House Alley, our newest Recovered Book from @bhousepress.bsky.social at Alienated Majesty Books tomorrow: Tuesday, 28 January at 6PM. Please join us!
