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Welcome to Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight Week!
Posted 12th July 2021
Hello! This week, we’re focusing in on six of our phenomenal women writers from the Pushkin Vertigo crime list. Representing a wide range of people in their protagonists and storylines, these six titles are some of the most exciting voices…
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Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight: The Eighth Girl by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung
Posted 8th July 2021
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of gritty and confounding The Eighth Girl. As part of our Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight Week, we sat down with Maxine and asked her a few questions about what this book and…
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Susan Steinberg: On Writing
Posted 9th June 2021 by Susan Steinberg
As jagged as it is beautiful, as poetic as it is furious, Machine by Susan Steinberg is a propulsive story of communal guilt in the wake of a young girl’s drowning. Out now in paperback, we asked author Susan Steinberg…
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‘Writing is Alchemy’: Susie Bower on Alchemy and The Three Impossibles
Posted 3rd June 2021 by Susie Bower
When eleven year old Mim meets the last living Alchemist—Trismegistus MacWhisker—she asks him what Alchemy is. He replies: ‘Alchemy is the art of Transformation. Its goal is to set right what is wrong; to change what is inferior or imperfect…
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Five Books That Inspired Three-Fifths
Posted 20th May 2021 by John Vercher
Crime drama. Thriller. Even mystery. Each one of these classifications were applied to my debut novel at one time or another before and after publication. While these labels apply to Three-Fifths to varying extents, I never set out with the…
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A Q&A with Jonathan Ames
Posted 4th May 2021
Jonathan Ames is the author of ten books including Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man and You Were Never Really Here, all published by Pushkin Press. He also created the hit HBO comedy Bored to Death, starring Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis and Jason Schwartzman, as…
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‘We can each make a difference through our individual actions’: Ele Fountain on MELT
Posted 29th April 2021 by Ele Fountain
Sometimes a phrase becomes so ubiquitous it begins to lose its impact. I sincerely hope that never happens to the phrase climate change. It’s simply too important. But there is an enormity to it, which naturally makes people wonder what…
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Sarah Blau’s Top 5 Thrillers
Posted 23rd April 2021
Next week, Pushkin Vertigo publishes Sarah Blau’s wickedly entertaining thriller, THE OTHERS (tr. Daniella Zamir). When Sheila’s old classmates start to be murdered, an old pact simmers to the surface: one in which they swore to never have children. Now,…
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Extract: The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Posted 30th March 2021
This week, Pushkin Press are publishing The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (tr. Philip Boehm), a gripping novel of a life lived under the Nazi regime. Ahead of publication, we wanted to share with you an extract from the thrilling…
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Everything You Need to Know About… Ivy Compton-Burnett
Posted 18th March 2021
Ivy Compton-Burnett has always provoked strong reactions. Along with much critical success, she consistently elicited shock or dismay with each successive novel. Our new edition of Compton-Burnett’s A House and Its Head is ‘[t]he merriest tale of human depravity you…
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