LAB News

It’s a great pleasure to share with you the report of highlights from LAB’s 2023/2024 financial year, showcasing the great variety of work we’ve produced in this period.

LAB is excited to announce that on 8 October we will release our latest title in partnership with Practical Action Publishing: The Amazon in Times of War by Marcos Colón. Read on for details about the book and the author's UK book tour, including a launch event in London on Saturday 19 October.

Congratulations to Tom Gatehouse for winning a #PENTranslates award from English PEN to translate Bernardo Kucinski's part political essay, part ghost story 'The Congress of the Disappeared' from the Portuguese into English.

LAB had a busy 2023... We published articles on COP28, memory and Milei, the rise of narcomining in Ecuador, Indigenous beekeeping in Mexico, water defenders, the Rights of Nature, The Amazon Summit, democracy in Guatemala, Brazilian women in London's delivery sector, domestic workers, saving Yasuní, and surviving the Darién Gap. 'Crossed Off the Map' by Shafik Meghji fast became one of LAB’s best-selling books. It was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year, the British Guild of Travel Writers Narrative Travel Book of the Year, and the Great Outdoors Book of the Year. 'The Heart of Our Earth' by Tom Gatehouse featured on the London...

New books, international translations, a documentary film, photobook, events, article series and social media – click through to read about LAB's incredible achievements and performance in the last couple of years.