***PRE ORDER NOW - NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!*** We’re excited to announce the forthcoming publication of The Crib and Other Stories, the first English version of Albertine Sarrazin’s short stories. Translated by Sonya Moor, the book will be published on 5th June 2025. ​Available to preorder from the website confingopublishing.uk/product-page/the-crib-and-other-stories-by-albertine-sarrazin-translated-by-sonya-moor for a special price of £7 (plus p&p). These short stories, which appear in English for the first time, were composed for the most part in prison, before Sarrazin’s novels were published to international acclaim in 1965. Here, Sarrazin turns her singular eye on the prison environment, charting the cruelties, small kindnesses, constraints and paradoxical freedoms of daily life in prison. By turns astute, tender and wryly humorous, Sarrazin presents a panorama ranging from the dangers of ‘favours’ and clandestine letters, to the delights of illicit coffee and self-im...