The 2015 Lounge hosted a second European book launch for University of Ottawa Press' Lowry series: The 1940 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry: A Critical Edition, an earlier, unpublished version of his 1947 masterpiece. Often regarded as no more than a blueprint for the later work, it had never been adequately considered nor fully critically edited. This edition - a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea, which was launched at the 2014 Lounge) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself - was edited and introduced by Miguel Mota and Paul Tiessen, with annotations by Chris Ackerley and David Large and a foreword by Patrick A. McCarthy and Vik Doyen, who came to Liverpool to introduce the book.

Included here are the book cover and press release, courtesy of University of Ottawa Press; and a photo of Lounge regular, the Belgian Lowry scholar Vik Doyen holding a copy of the book.