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the six summer sentience

Mercé Rodoreda’s Garden by the Sea, translated from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent, 5.3 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches & 230 pages.

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Hanna Johansson's Body Double, translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson, 5.5 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches & 224 pages.

“the jungle makes its clay of you”

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's We Are Green and Trembling, translated by Robin Myers, is 5.2 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches & 256 pages.

a leaf & its shade: architecture

Giada Scodellaro’s Ruins, Child is 5 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches & 128 pages.

"People will always find each other."

'Box Hill' (or 'Pillion') by Adam Mars-Jones is 7.6 x 5 x 0.5 inches & 114 pages.

“the afternoon is for very unhip places”

‘To Smithereens’ by Rosalyn Drexler, from 1972, is 5 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches & 200 pages.

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Chris Duffy's 'Humor Me' is 5.6 x 8.5 x 1 inches and 272 pages.

work, place, tragedy, comedy or: dubious canapé

Discontent by Beatriz Serrano, translated from the Spanish by Maya Faye Lethem, is 5 x 7.75 x 0.5 inches and 192 pages long.

the deep fryer

On the Clock by Claire Baglin, translated from the French by Jordan Stump, is 5 x 5 x 0.3 inches and 144 pages long.

at four o’clock i have my lukewarmness, at five i have my abyss

Colette's the Pure and the Impure, first published in 1932, is 4.75 x 8 x 0.5 inches and 184 pages.