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Lantern Press

Indian literature, regional-language translations, limited editions, and the Lantern Book Club.

The River Year
Marginalia
Out of Print
A Quiet Press
Collected Letters
Reissue No. 7
Field Notes
Staff Picks

What we're pressing into hands.

Handpicked favourites — updated in real time from our inventory.

No. 01

The River Year

Mira Sen

A luminous debut about a village that floods every spring. We read it in one sitting and pressed it on everyone who walked in the next morning.

— Recommended by Asha
No. 02

Collected Letters

Tomas Vélez

Forty years of correspondence between two poets who never met. Translated for the first time — funny, aching, and impossible to put down.

— Recommended by Daniel
No. 03

Out of Print, No. 7

Edith Marlowe

A 1962 novel we rescued from oblivion and reset by hand. If you love a quiet, devastating ending, this is the one.

— Recommended by Priya
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The Shelves

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The Programme

Evenings at the bookhouse.

Readings, signings, and launches in the back room. Seats are limited — RSVP and we'll hold one for you.

14MAR

An Evening with Mira Sen

The Back Room · 7pm

A reading from The River Year, followed by a signing and a glass of something.

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22MAR

Translators in Conversation

The Back Room · 6:30pm

Three of our translators on the art of carrying a sentence across a border.

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05APR

Launch — Collected Letters

Main Floor · 7pm

We unveil the first English edition with a panel and a first look at the limited run.

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The Reading List

A monthly dispatch from the press.

New titles, translator interviews, and the occasional shelf-of-the-month. One letter, the first Sunday.

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