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🎃 Ollie sets up our Halloween window display. Spooky action! Come trick or treat us! ✨ Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (@cranfordcollection) ✨ Zombies, Werewolves, Monsters & Horror (@chartwellnt) ✨ Godfather Death, by Sally Nichols, Illustrated by Júlia Sardà (@andersenpress @vikingbooks,@juliasardaportabella) ✨ There’s a Ghost in This House, by Oliver Jeffers (@harpercollins) ✨ Minuit Passé, by Gaëlle Geniller (@avril_circus, @delcourt.bd) ✨ La bruja en la torre, by Júlia Sardà (@blackiebooks, @juliasardaportabella) ✨ Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Fanu (@pushkin_press) ✨ Brujedario, by Mary Daly (@sabinaeditorial) ✨ Magick in Theory and Practice, by Aleister Crowley ✨ The Devil’s Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ✨ In the Dust of This Planet, by Eugene Thacker (@zer0books) ✨ The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, by Thomas Ligotti (@penguinbooks) ✨ Terminal Park, by Gary J. Shipley from Apocalypse Party (@apocalypsepartypress) ✨ Occult Botany, by Paul Sédir (@inner_traditions) ✨ Nocturnos, by Laura Pérez (@astiberri_ediciones) ✨ The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey, by Carol Verbug (@chroniclebooks) ✨ España oculta, by Cristina García Rodero from Elviria editorial (@editorialelvira) ✨ Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, by Owen Davis (@oxunipress) by @desperateliterature
A WEEK OF EVENTS ☀️ Including chess, a drag show, love scammers and medieval self-help! 🗓 26th | Chess Night 🗓 29th | Wings: a queer perfomance | with CareOzen Météore (@care_ozen_meteor), hosterd by Sasha Heider (@sashaeider) NB: short event! 15mins 🗓 30th | The Yahoo Boys (@wnbooks, @hachetteuk) | Carlos Barragán (@carlosjbarragan) Hosted by Sara Hanna (@sarah4nn4) An astonishing work of immersion journalism about four young romance scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam, and the moral dilemmas they face. 🗓 Nov 2nd | 19h | Self-Help from the Middle Ages (@penguinukbooks) | Autoayuda medieval (@reservoirbooks_) con Peter Jones, hosted by Inés Paris (@paris.librarian) and Terry Craven (@terryacraven) (lectura bilingüe) 🗓 Nov 9th | 16th | 23rd | A lecture series on T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’. See website for tickets (€5 each) MORE NEWS ON THIS SOON @prototypepubs @cielosanto__ @helatronica @londresesficcion @madelinske @harpercollinsuk @fauziamusa @paris.librarian @renacimientoed @terryacraven @vikingbooks @mebeatley @skyita @emilyroese @baekboi_sung @imogenclrk @estherleaming @wnbooks @hachetteuk @carlosjbarragan @sarah4nn4 by @desperateliterature
🪐 INES RECOMMENDS (@paris.librarian): An oldie and a truly indispensable goodie: ’The Dispossessed’ (@orionbooks, @gollancz) From sci-fi writer, essayist and absolute interstellar legend, Ursula K Le Guin. Drop your sci-fi recs bellow… Also, fun fact: the marvellous @thisisthekit once led us in a session learning the music and poetry of the Kesh, from ‘Always Coming Home’…maybe we can get another event going in the new space? Who’s in? #desperateliterature #indiebookstore #bookstagram #ursulakleguin #madrid by @desperateliterature
Hola!! Tenemos nueva edición de nuestro aperitivo con escritores 🫒 Este encuentro girará en torno a la pertenencia, la identidad, el arraigo y las disidencias. Para ello, contaremos con @julenazcona y @esnorquel que compartirán su propia visión! ⭐️ También, contaremos con @desperateliterature y además estarán vendiendo algunos ejemplares 📖 La entrada son 7€ incluyendo una consumición y una tapa :) 🗓️ jueves 15 de octubre a las 19:30h en el Café Cultural María Pandora (parque de las Vistillas (tenemos aforo limitado así que consigue tu entrada pronto!) 🎟️🎟️ >> link en bio! by @desperateliterature
60 SECONDS WITH ⏰ : Lucía Reyes (@lucia.reyees) y Gloria Derval (@gloriaderval) — Bueno... Lucía nos deja 😢 Bueno, no “nos deja”… se va a hacer un máster, que queda mucho más elegante. 💅📚 Pequeño mensaje para nuestra Lucía: estamos súper orgulloses de ti y te deseamos toda la suerte del mundo en esta nueva etapa. Aquí siempre tendrás tu casa, tu librería y tu gente. ❤️ Y tranquila: Gloria se queda con nosotres. ✨ — Ok, Lucía is leaving us! Well, not “leaving”… she’s off to do a Master’s, which sounds much more glamorous. 💅📚 A wee message for you, Lucía: we couldn’t be prouder and we’re wishing you all the luck in the world for this next chapter. You’ll always have a home, a bookshop and your people here. ❤️ And not to worry: Gloria is staying with us..✨ — Lucia’s picks: 📖 ‘Poesía completa’ (@lumenedit) | Alejandra Pizarnik 📖 ‘Punto de araña’ (@galaxiaeditorial) | Nerea Pallares (@nerea_pallares) 🎵 ‘Lost Ones’ | Lauryn Hill (@mslaurynhill) 📖 ‘Nightwood’ (@seix_barral , @faberbooks) | Djuna Barnes 📖 ‘Han cantado bingo’ (@reservoirbooks) | Lana Corujo (@lanacorujo) 📖 TO BE OR NOT TO BE! ‘Hamlet’ | William Shakespeare 📖 ‘Dysphoria mundi’ (@anagramaeditor) | Paul B. Preciado (@paul_bpreciado) Gloria’s picks: 📖 ‘La repetición’ (@alianzaeditorial) | Søren Kierkegaard 📖 ‘Metafísica de los tubos’ (@anagramaeditor) | Amélie Nothomb (@amelie_nothomb_officielle) 🎵 ‘Girl Like Me’ | PinkPantheress (@pinkpantheress) 📖 ‘The Fifth Child’ (@vintagebooks) | Doris Lessing 📖 ‘Cinco horas con Mario’ (@eddestino) | Miguel Delibes 📖 ‘The Bluest Eye’ (@vintagebooks) | Toni Morrison #desperateliterature #indiebookstore #libreriaindependiente #bookseller #madrid❤️ by @desperateliterature
🏕️ ☀️ ¡Solidaridad desde la cava baja, amigues! UPDATE 19/10/26: Hasta el 31 de octubre, abrimos el sótano a partir de las 12h *y hoy 19/10/26 habrá evento de 19h-21h UPDATE 7/10/26: durante los eventos, tendremos que cerrar el sótano, pero se abrirá de nuevo justo después! by @desperateliterature
🕶️ Maddy Recommends: ‘Oxblood‘ by Tom Benn (@tomjohnbenn) Discover Maddy(@madelinske)’s recent read, a northern tale if ever there was one! ‘Oxblood shows us that there are few places literature can’t take us, if the writer is brave enough, and gifted enough.’ FRANCIS SPUFFORD (@francis_spufford) Tom Benn was also a runner-up in our 2019 literary prize with his magnificent short story ‘Stuart Hall and Stuart Hall’ (available in the collection ‘22 Fictions’ from @cheeriopublishing, celebrating the first five years of the @desperate_literature_prize and the @bricklanebookshop prize) Tom Benn was the winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award 22 Fictions co-edited by Kate Ellis @smalleyellis and Robert Loyko Greer @robert.loyko.greer @bloomsburypublishing #desperateliterature #indiebookstore #libreriaindependiente #bookrecommendations madrid by @desperateliterature
⭐️ Translator Alice Banks @al.ellen.b, gives us her recommendations ahead of her event on Friday 11th September! - Las Cabras (@altamarea_ediciones) - Pilar Asuero (@pilarasuero) - The Safekeep (@penguinbooks) - Yael van der Wouden - Crema Solar (@rilespana) - Irena de la Torra (@irene__delatorre) EVENT INFO: 📚 June 11 — 20h00 | Traducción a cuatro manos (20h): The City (@openletterbooks) / La Ciudad (@penguinlibros) Bilingual reading and discussion! Katie Whittemore @katie.whittemore1 (traductora) y Alice Banks @al.ellen.b (traductora) en conversación con Lara Moreno @laramorenom (autora) #desperateliterature #indiebookstore #event #bilingual #madrid by @desperateliterature
🪅 We show off some of the recent arrivals along with some of our private collection! Come have a peek. ✨ 1950s @esquire Handbook for Hosts 🍸 ✨ John Keats, Poems 🍇 from the beautiful Endymion Series... ✨ Ariel, by Sylvia Plath - 1965, 1st edition, 2nd Impression ✨ A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf - 1945, first paperback edition from @penguinbooks ✨ The Iliad, trans. Alexander Pope, 1759 #desperateliterature #indiebookstore #libreriaindependiente #rarebooks #rare by @desperateliterature
BACK-TO-SCHOOL: As we continue to prepare our sótano space for opening, we ease into the season with a workshop, a translation evening, our excellent chess night and fiction to close us off. 🖊 June 5 — 10h30 - 18h00 | Structure & Form: a one-day writing workshop with @victoriagosling 📚 June 11 — 20h00 | Traducción a cuatro manos (20h): The City (@openletterbooks) / La Ciudad (@penguinlibros) Katie Whittemore @katie.whittemore1 (traductora) y Alice Banks @al.ellen.b (traductora) en conversación con Lara Moreno @laramorenom (autora) ♟ June 21 — 19h30 | CHESS NIGHT 📚 June 26 — 13h30 | ‘Fundamentally’ (@wnbooks) - a midday of fiction with Nussaibah Younis @nussaibahyounis 📚 June 26 — 19h30 | The Age of... Yael Van der Wouden, Nussaibah Younis @nussaibahyounis, and Jacobo Bergareche @jackbergareche ... join the European Writers Salon @salon_europe (and ourselves as booksellers) for an evening in the magnificent @ateneodemadrid that asks: what age are we living through now, and what role do writers have in defining it? Use ‘DL’ for discount...info via @salon_europe account! @victoriagosling @openletterbooks @penguinlibros @katie.whittemore1 @al.ellen.b @laramorenom @wnbooks @nussaibahyounis @jackbergareche @salon_europe @ateneodemadrid by @desperateliterature
We’re excited to announce the winner and runners-up of this year’s prize, along with the release of ‘Eleven Stories 2026’! Mimi Kawahara (@mkawahara29) takes the top spot with ‘Disaster preparedness test, ex post facto’, a ‘devastatingly intimate...portrait of mourning...that understands grief not as a problem to be solved or overcome but as a condition to be inhabited.’ (Ottessa Moshfegh, 2026 judge). Our runners-up are Eric Baker (@baekboi_sung) and Emily Roese (@emilyroese) with their stories ‘This History of Violence’ and ‘Slug’. ABOUT THE COLLECTION: ‘The Desperate Literature Short Story Prize remains a beacon for experiment in times when this is both increasingly rare and increasingly vital’ —Joanna Walsh ‘so structurally inventive’ —Ottessa Moshfegh You can get Eleven Stories in PDF via our website and keep an eye out for stories appearing with partner journals in the coming months! Thanks to our Judges: Claire-Louise Bennett Ottessa Moshfegh Joanna Walsh The full shortlist: Katie Assef (@katie_shireen) Saad Bin Iftikhar (@saad_109393) Imogen Clarke (@imogenclrk) Christian Emecheta (@emechetachristian) Jennifer Green Esther Leaming (@estherdreaming) L. J. de Pedro Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe (@lxndr_a) Thanks to our partners and particularly @degrootfoundation for all their unfailing support! Without them, the prize wouldn’t be possible. Our Partners include: @degrootfoundation @civitellaranieri @tenementpress @thelondonmagazine @kyd_magazine @helterskeltermag @minorlits @theliteraryconsultancy @spreadthewordwriters @cipher_press @folly.journal @bennreview @revistapajaroazul @souvenirmagazineparis @monitorbooks @charlotteseymour @badaud_e @salon_europe Thanks to everybody who entered the prize and, finally, thanks to our first-round readers, who have put in countless hours reading stories and selecting this wonderful shortlist. READERS: @fatemaabdoolcarim @vesnamarx @k.a.mccully @barbarabianchic @fifitoro @londresesficcion @terryacraven @fin_olafin @limeywesty @paris.librarian @madelinske & Dominique Chapla by @desperateliterature
💌 ‘Dark Night’ by Saint John of the Cross (@penguinclassics) we celebrate the double centenary of John of the Cross and the publication of Martha Sprackland (@marthasprackland)’s translation of his poems ⭐️ we hope you enjoy the end of the summer! With a sneak peak of our soon to open sótano. #desperateliterature #indiebookstore #poemofthemonth #poetry #madrid by @desperateliterature

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