It’s been a brilliant start to the summer: full of fairs, exciting meetings and plenty of bright sunshine to tempt us into the shade with a book. With the lovely weather only continuing, and out-of-offices starting to roll in, what better way to spend your time than with Linden’s new releases? 

New Books

Listed in Ms Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026 and Words Without Borders’ Most Anticipated Books of 2026. 

In a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia, a young woman finds her future blinkered long before she understands why. Raised to become a beautiful, eligible daughter, she comes up against the limits of expectation as her body begins to resist her — seizing, faltering, and plagued by pain and speech disorders in ways no doctor can explain.

With verbal elegance and poetic power, Egana Djabbarova unveils a hidden world in which illness unexpectedly facilitates her liberation, tracing a young woman’s path towards her hard-won voice. Standing proud in the tradition of confessional writers like Audre Lorde and Jamaica Kincaid, this debut is an arresting meditation on embodiment, inheritance, and freedom.

‘I love this book. I couldn’t put it down. It’s written and translated with great verve, wit and wisdom — indeed a palpable humanity.’ — Lisa Appignanesi

‘Devastating and hopeful, plainspoken and elegiac.’ — Claire Oshetsky 

‘An exquisite Bildungsroman by an exceptional author reading her own body as the bearer of inherited stigmas, offering a thought-provoking journey into what it’s like to grow up as a stranger.’ — Sergei Lebedev

Now available to order online or purchase in any good bookshop.

Summer Sale

It’s that time of the year again — we are now offering a summer sale here at Linden! Over the summer, orders of any three books on our site are subject to a 20% discount. That means any three books will come to the reduced price of £30.40. So now is the perfect time to stock up on new books to keep you company on your summer holidays using the code SUMMER26 at checkout!

The code works on any three books on our website. You could use the deal to purchase our newest release, My Dreadful Body, or you could choose from our summer recommendations:

Ilaria, or The Conquest of Disobedience, Gabriella Zalapì tr. Adriana Hunter

Winner Prix Femina des Lycéens 2024, Winner Prix Millepages 2024, Winner Prix Blù Jean-Marc Roberts 2024

One afternoon in May, 8 year old Ilaria gets into the car with her dad, expecting to go out to dinner with her mum and sister. Instead, she is taken across the border, on a whirlwind journey around Italy, from Trieste to Rome and Sicily, sleeping in roadside hotels, singing to the radio, and fearing her drunk but loving father. Intimate and deeply moving, Ilaria enters the dreamlike world of a girl who is learning to navigate life on her own.

Struck, Susanna Bissoli tr. Georgia Wall

Longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2026

When Vera is diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time, she moves back in with her father, Zeno. It is the first time she has slept in the family home since her mother died, of the same cancer, almost a decade earlier. Here, Vera stumbles upon Zeno's most surprising secret: a novel. In this deeply human work, Bissoli unravels a joyful celebration of life and a reminder of its catastrophes, a delicate portrait of a family, and an ode the power of writing.

In Late Summer, Magdalena Blažević tr. Anđelka Raguž

Shortlisted for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award, Winner of the 2022/23 Tportal Award and Shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize 2026

Written from the perspective of a 14-year-old girl killed in the August 1993 massacre in Bosnia, this is a haunting portrait of a family and a village, each affected differently by the daily realities of civil war.

Based on a personal experience, Magdalena Blažević’s novel is poetic and powerful, with profound emotion woven under the surface of her precise and lyrical prose.

All these books and more can be purchased with the exclusive summer deal here.

Upcoming Releases

We are delighted to announce that we will be publishing Gottland: Exploding Stalin and Other True Tales from the Heart of Europe by Mariusz Szczygieł tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones in October 2026.

One of Europe’s most celebrated journalists travels to the Czech Republic to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth century. From the small businessman who adopted Henry Ford’s ideas on productivity to create the world’s largest shoe company to Kafka’s niece, who loaned her name to writers blacklisted under the Communist regime so they could keep publishing, Gottland is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a resilient people living through difficult and often bizarre times. Winner of the European Book Prize, Gottland is equal parts funny, disturbing, stirring and absurd.

'One of those delightfully unclassifiable books...Szczygiel is strange and funny, constantly off at jaunty tangents.' — Julian Barnes, Book of the Year, The Guardian

'Extraordinary... Gottland is one of the funniest books I have read and one of the shrewdest about what it was like to live under fascism and communism, the experience of so much of Europe in the last century. It is not about Czechoslovakia or Poland or even limited to Mitteleuropa, but about how one copes with tyranny and corruption and preserves a conscience... Important and enjoyable.' — The Spectator

'Many of the stories in Mariusz Szczygiel's portrait of Czechoslovakia could have come from the pages of Kafka... Absorbing, offbeat history.' — The Financial Times

Pre-order on our website here.

Upcoming Events

Join Linden Editions’ Mariusz Szczygieł in conversation with acclaimed Turkish-Kurdish author Burhan Sönmez at Wimbledon BookFest.

In ‘Unspoken Conversations’, these two renowned writers will discuss what it means to write about the things that aren’t there — languages that are made invisible, people who are disappeared, and everything that is unsaid.

This event will take place at 13:00 on Sunday 18 October 2026 at Wimbledon BookFest. Tickets can be purchased here, and a limited number of free tickets are available to residents in postcodes CR4, CR7, SM3 and SM4. This event is kindly supported by the Polish Cultural Institute London.

Don’t want to miss out on anything Linden?

Lucky for you we have a subscription package available for all our 2026 books. Check out the link to purchase all four of our 2026 releases for just £40 (and free postage within the UK!). Our 2026 titles include: 

• Illaria, or the Conquest of Disobedience by Gabriella Zalapi, translated from French by Adriana Hunter

• Milk and Blood by Agnès de Clairville, translated from French by Frank Wynne

• My Dreadful Body‍ by ‍Egana Djabbarova, translated from Russian by Lisa C. Hayden

• Gottland: Exploding Stalin and Other True Tales from the Heart of Europe by Mariusz Szczygieł, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

With a subscription, you will be up-to-date with all of Linden’s titles, and have enough reading to take you around the world and back. Order here.

We hope all of our readers have been enjoying the summer so far. 🍓 For more updates from Linden Editions, follow us on Instagram at @linden.editions. If not, see you in the next newsletter!