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Foundry Editions was set up in 2023 out of a love of three things - a love for discovering and sharing new voices, a love for the Mediterranean and the people and lands that surround it, and a love of internationalism and reading across borders.
We are on a mission to uncover authors who are new to English speakers, and to share the joy of reading their stories, which come from a part of the world that has always been a source of cultural and emotional inspiration for English language readers.
If you are looking for enriching story-telling and intelligent, thought-provoking, beautiful writing, that captures something of the lives, imaginations, culture and preoccupations of people who live around the middle sea, then you will find something to love in the books we publish.
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Esther García Llovet
Spanish Beauty
Translation by Richard Village
NEWLY RELEASED
“Washed-up Brits, local lowlifes and a Kray twin’s lighter: noir novel Spanish Beauty shines fond light on Benidorm” THE OBSERVER
“This seedy, sun-kissed literary thriller is like the ITV sitcom, Benidorm, if it was given a bad-girl heroine and a gritty makeover” THE TIMES
“A bracing fever-dream pulsing to the rhythms of the rotting heart of the Costa Blanca, Spanish Beauty reads like Raymond Chandler purging himself in the depths of a gin hangover” THE IRISH TIMES
“Pop, hugely enjoyable and perfectly cinematographic. I want Tarantino to film it.” EL MUNDO"
We like García Llovet a lot. A cult author” Sara Mesa, Author of UN AMOR
COMING SOON
Karim Kattan
The Palace on the Higher Hill
Translation by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Available 2nd April 2025
“Absolument merveilleux” JMG LeClezio, winner Nobel Prize for Literature, Prix Renaudot
“Nobody is ever going to forget his intimate vision of Palestine, seen through unbridled, brand new eyes.” L’HUMANITÉ
“Every word is brilliant and alive.” RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONAL
“Shakes up what we think we know and changes the way we usually look at the subject it tackles. And does it which huge originality and talent.” L’ORIENT LITTÉRAIRE
UPCOMING TITLES IN TIME FOR SUMMER
Anna Pazos
Killing the Nerve
Translation by Laura McGloughlin and Charlotte Coombe
“A catalogue of experiences that goes under a knife, sharpened by scepticism, self-awareness and an iron will to think outside prefabricated ideological perceptions.” EL NACIONAL
Voted Best Catalan Book of the Year by EL PAIS
Longlisted for the Premi Finestres 2023
Coming May 2025
Cécile Tlili
Just a Little Dinner
Translation by Katherine Gregor
Coming June 2025
“In the cinema and the theatre, feasts that descend into disaster are a distinctly French speciality. Cécile Tlili manages to reinvent this tradition with her first novel.” PARIS MATCH
Shortlisted for the 2024 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman
Winner 2023 Prix Littéraire Gisèle Halimi for women’s writing.
Chiara Valerio
The Little I Knew
Translation by Ailsa Wood
Coming June 2025
“With wit, subtlety and charm, Valerio captures the complex currents of secrecy and desire that lie just under the surface of small-town and family life. A beguiling, atmospheric story of female fascinations.” Sarah Waters
“Whodunnit, an investigation into small time life, class, secrets and lies make this a classic.” DOMANI
Italian Bestseller by this hugely popular author, Shortlisted for the 2024 Premio Strega.
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Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
Samahani
Translation by Mayada Ibrahim and Adil Babakir
“Finely structured, fascinating novel.” THE IRISH TIMES
“Brilliant storytelling” OKAYAFRICA
Winner of English PEN's flagship translation award
Rosa Ribas
Far
Translation by Charlotte Coombe
"A dark, satirical and very Spanish love story with echoes of Claudia Piñeiro and JG Ballard” THE GUARDIAN
“Rosa is the best noir writer in Spanish” DIARIO DE CADIZ
“Sheer delight” EL PERIODICO
Contantia Soteriou
Brandy Sour
Translation by Lina Protopapa
“Flavours bounce off the page and straight into the mouth” THE SUNDAY TIMES
“This is, quite simply, one of the most powerful books ever to come out of our island” CYPRUS MAIL
2023 Cyprus National Book Prize Winner
Maria Grazia Calandrone
Your Little Matter
Translation by Antonella Lettieri
"Extraordinary" THE GUARDIAN
“I adored this book. It felt to me like the call of a lost sister” Molly Aitken, Author of BRIGHT I BURN
Shortlisted for the 2023 Premio Strega, Italy’s top literary prize.