A boutique literary imprint
Beautiful new editions of overlooked European fiction.
Explore our titlesEspresso Publishing House seeks out the foreign-language novels that deserve a second life — works of depth and beauty that have never found an adequate English edition, or have been lost to neglect for too long.
New from Espresso
Espresso Italian Classics
Translated by Idara Crespi
A gripping novel of nineteenth-century Naples — serialised, beloved, and never before translated into English. Love, betrayal, and identity set against the vivid backdrop of a city of startling contrasts.
Espresso Spanish Classics
Translated by Inés Bou
The Spanish comic masterpiece that inspired Manuel de Falla's celebrated 1919 ballet — an Andalusian tale of a lecherous magistrate, a quick-witted miller's wife, and a hat that changes the law. Its first modern English literary edition.
Ships May 2026
Espresso Italian Classics
Translated by Idara Crespi
The opening volume of Mastriani's panoramic I Misteri di Napoli — the Neapolitan answer to Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris. The first English translation of any part of this monumental work.
Ships September 2026