Where some of the magic happens at Open Borders Press... In London, there’s a stunning garden that houses a summer office filled to the brim with books. Here, Christopher MacLehose, founder of Open Borders Press, has read, edited, and worked on hundreds of titles throughout his publishing career!

The Convoy is the harrowing, urgent memoir from award-winning French-Rwandan author Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, where she pieces together her own history during the events of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. 🇫🇷 Translated by Ruth Diver. 🔗 shorturl.at/pwbkO #BookSky #Readers #LoveBooks

It’s Translated Thursday! We’re celebrating by spotlighting our published titles alongside our upcoming summer release. Take a look and tell us, are any of these on your TBR? #ReadTheWorld #BooksSky #TranslatedThursdays #Translated

Meet the Author: Valentin Deudon 📖⚽️ French writer and poet blending storytelling with #Football. His upcoming #EricCantona: 82 Goals (11 June 2026, tr. Ian Monk) is a love letter to one of the game’s most iconic players. Available to pre-order now! #BlueSky #ManUnited #AuthorsOfBlueSky #AuthorSky

Five reasons to love #TranslatedFiction 🌍📚 Translated fiction (or #NonFiction) allows you explore the world without a passport, opening doors to new cultures, voices, and perspectives. Every story offers a fresh way of seeing things beyond your own experience. #ReadTheWorld #BookSky #Readers

Meet the Author: Valentin Deudon 📖⚽️ French author Valentin Deudon blends storytelling with a passion for #Football. His new book, #ÉricCantona: 82 Goals, explores the game’s cultural impact. Publishing 11/06, #Translated by Ian Monk. Available to pre-order now: www.waterstones.com/book/eric-ca...

Mystery Monday 🔍 This Book Holiday Monday (see what we did there?) settle in with the new Comandante De Luca #Mystery, #TheDarkestWinter, from Carlo Lucarelli, translated by Joseph Farrell. Italian noir at its finest!🕵‍♂️ #BankHoliday #BookSky #TranslatedFiction #BookHolidayWeekend #CurrentlyReading

Pack a proof with us 📖 One of our favourite things as a publisher is sending out early reading copies of our upcoming titles… there’s nothing like the excitement of discovering a brand new book ✨ #UK #BookInfluencers and #Booksellers, let us know if you'd like a copy of #EricCantona #82Goals

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s memoir #TheConvoy captures the raw, haunting courage amid the unimaginable horror of the 1994 #Genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda. A powerful #Memoir, translated by award-winning translator, Ruth Diver that everyone MUST read. #Quotes #Translated #ReadTheWorld #Readers

⚽ EARLY #UK READER COPIES ⚽ Early reader copies of Valentin Deudon's Éric Cantona: 82 Goals, translated by Ian Monk are available now! #Book #Reviewers, please do let us know in the comments if you would like to receive a copy ⚽️👇 #Football #PremierLeague #EricCantona #BookSky #Readers #BookReview

We’re thrilled to announce Éric Cantona: 82 Goals by Valentin Deudon, translated by Ian Monk (who sadly passed soon after completing the translation), out 11/06/2026 Through 82 unforgettable goals for Manchester United, Cantona comes alive: the genius, the swagger, the controversy, the poetry. ⚽

POWERFUL Non-Fiction Recommendations that you NEED to read! When reality hits harder than fiction. These unforgettable accounts of war, violence, survival, and resilience will stay with you long after the last page. #TheConvoy #OurDailyWar #Rwanda #Ukraine #Nonfiction #BookSky #ImportantReads

Throwback Thursday! We are over the moon to share that we have acquired World Rights (excluding North America and Italy) to The Girls with the Pale Blue Eyes by Kam Majd. A gripping, female-driven #Thriller about two sisters caught in a global conspiracy-where truth, loyalty, and survival...

During an Asiastudio podcast interview, Petteri Orpo revealed he gave copies of The Winter Warriors (t. Nick Caistor) to European leaders as a Christmas gift. “Like many Finns, I loved it… Half of them have now told me they’ve read it,” he said, including Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz. (1/2)

Map Monday 🗺📍 📌 Ukraine. A country. A conflict. A story still unfolding. #ThreeYearsonFire by Andrey Kurkov captures life of the Ukranian people under siege, as it happens. Raw, urgent, and deeply human. A must read! #MapMonday #BookSky #AndreyKurkov #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #ReadTheWorld

Lost in translation… but still beautiful. Check out these five words that exist in the world but are unable to be perfectly translated into English ✨📖 💫 Is there a word that you love that doesn't have an exact English translation? #booklovers #Translation #readingcommunity #literaturelover

It's #TranslatedTuesday and what better way to celebrate than an introduction to the INCREDIBLE translated & world literature that we've published so far (there is SO much more to come!) 🌎 What was the last country that you visited through the pages of a book? #worldliterature #internationalbooks

🌍📚 Celebrating #Translated #Literature! Open Borders Press founder and publisher Christopher MacLehose shares some heartening news: sales of literature in translation are strong and growing. A reminder that readers are increasingly looking beyond borders for the stories they read. #ReadTheWorld

#UK Kindle eBook Deal📖 13th March marks 86 years since the end of the Finland–Soviet Winter War. NOW is the timely moment to dive into Olivier Norek’s The Winter Warriors, translated by Nick Caistor. An epic historical thriller set at the outbreak of war in 1939 Finland. ❄️ shorturl.fm/TdJs7 (1/2)

Five Benefits of Reading Translated Fiction 🌍📚 Reading translated fiction is like traveling the world without leaving the comfort of your favourite reading spot. Every story opens a door to a different culture, perspective, and way of thinking. #ReadTheWorld #TranslatedFiction #Translation (1/2)

#UK Kindle eBook Deal📖 13th March marks 86 years since the end of the Finland–Soviet Winter War. NOW is the timely moment to dive into Olivier Norek’s The Winter Warriors, translated by Nick Caistor. An epic historical thriller set at the outbreak of war in 1939 Finland. ❄️ shorturl.fm/TdJs7 (1/2)

It will be a good discussion! Looking forward to seeing everyone :)

West Berlin, 1968. A student lies dead. Kommissar Müller thinks he knows the killer: Ferdy Kaplan. But the interrogation reveals a stranger truth. Kaplan never meant to kill the student. His target was Max Brod, the man who defied Kafka’s dying wish... Join the @bookblast.org discussion!

Pick up an incredible, bestselling historical fiction for only £1.19. A LIMITED TIME deal! 'Their blood saturated the ground, their flesh nourishes the trees, mingles with the sap.' ⠀ Olivier Norek’s epic & unforgettable The Winter Warriors, t Nick Caistor, is only £1.19 on Kindle!

Celebrated author Andrey Kurkov has lived under the devastation of war in Ukraine for more than three years. Determined to remain in his country throughout the conflict, he continues to witness the immense challenges faced by the Ukrainian people. (1/3) #Ukraine #Russia #AndreyKurkov #WorldNews

'With echoes of John le Carré's The Night Manager, Denis Villeneuve's Sicario, and the moral complexity of Homeland and French series The Bureau' We are thrilled to share that we have acquired World Rights (excluding North America, Canada, and Italy) to The Girls with the Pale Blue Eyes by Kam Majd

From missiles over the Dnipro River to roses blooming in Avdiivka. This is life in Ukraine under the siege of war. Andrey Kurkov's Three Years on Fire, the 3rd instalment of war diaries, captures a nation in conflict. Children in bulletproof vests, soldiers writing haiku, grief turned into grace.

The Faces (and brains!) Behind Open Borders Press 📖🌎 As of 1st of April we'll be working and distributing with @turnarounduk.bsky.social, so it's time for a reintroduction! Meet the dynamic duo behind OBP... #BookSky #TranslatedFiction #Translation

Map Monday 🗺📍📖 Armchair travel to #Bologna this Map Monday with @carlolucarelli.bsky.social's #TheDarkestWinter, tr Joseph Farrell. Bologna 1944. Three murders. A professor shot through the eye. An engineer beaten to death. A German corporal left for rats in a flooded cellar. #CrimeFiction #Italy

We have news 🎉📖 After a strong 18 months of Open Borders Press, we are thrilled to announce that from the 1st of April we will be moving to @turnarounduk.bsky.social, Britain's leading independent book distributor since 1984. Read more here: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article... #BookSky

Lookie here folks! 👀 This is a seriously clever literary whodunnit on many levels. Grab yr tickets and see you on Mon 9 Feb 6pm Hatchards Piccadilly 🗣️📚 👏

Good to see Daniel Pennac’s READS LIKE A NOVEL included, tr. Dan Gunn, published when I was an editor at a publisher working especially on French translations into English - the Gilbert & George art cover a canny move! 😉🙌

Daniel Pennac’s READS LIKE A NOVEL tr. Dan Gunn with a Gilbert & George art cover is well worth reading ! 😉🙌

West Berlin, 1968. A student is dead. Kommissar Müller has one suspect: Ferdy Kaplan. But this is no ordinary murder case… @bookblast.org #BookClub alert! March's pick: Lovers Of Franz K. by @burhansonmez.bsky.social, tr. Sami Hêzil. #BookSky #BlueskyBooks #CrimeFiction

'We are standing on the edge of a precipice. At the bottom is the hot lava in which our happy, pre-war life was incinerated...' - Our Daily War, Andrey Kurkov Today marks the four year anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion of #Ukraine, the biggest European invasion since the second world war.

24th February is the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. To mark this anniversary, we've created a book display featuring the work of two writers-in-residence, Oleksandr Mykhed and Olena Stiazhkina. These books can all be borrowed, so feel free to peruse🌻

'Yesterday my choices would have been different, and tomorrow they will be different again.' Olivier Norek shares with us his five favourite books of ALL TIME... For now! We would love to hear about your favourite book(s) of all times. Share yours in the comments. #BookSky #Readers #LoveBooks

Congratulations to Olivier Norek, who has been presented with the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Lion of Finland by Her Excellency Kirsikka Lehto-Asikainen at the Finnish Embassy in Paris for his incredible historical novel The Winter Warriors, translated by Nick Caistor. An incredible honor!

'Three Years on Fire is very well worth reading not just to understand the horrific impact of war on individuals but also to wonder at Kurkov’s writing.' '...a deeply moving record of national endurance in the face of evil.' What a fabulous review of Andrey Kurkov's #ThreeYearsOnFire, please read!

The third volume of Andrey Kurkov's critically acclaimed, intimate and deeply moving war diaries, #ThreeYearsOnFire, is a poignant, personal account of life under siege in #Ukraine – rich with humanity, dark humour, and unforgettable resilience. 0.99 for a very limited time only! 🔥 geni.us/DDbW

Coffee with a record of resilience, heartbreak and national pride, anyone? Our Daily War by Andrey Kurkov, the next nstalment in his acclaimed war diaries is a profound and deeply personal chronicle of life under siege. Urgent, humane and unforgettable. This is history as it happens!

Open Borders Press, founded by Christopher MacLehose, publishes the best literary fiction and non-fiction, much of it in translation, as well as crime fiction, exclusively in #Translation Open Borders Press continues a legacy of discovering and nurturing voices from every corner of the globe.

Ruth Diver won the Scott Moncrieff Prize at our Translation Prizes ceremony earlier this week. We spoke to her on the night about why awards like this are so important. Find a list of all the winners on our website. buff.ly/j8lJ00z #TranslationPrizes

@burhansonmez.bsky.social, President of @peninternational.bsky.social is a Kurdish-born writer and former human rights lawyer. Now based between England & Istanbul, his sixth novel, Lovers of Franz K., is a Cold War tale of love, revenge & Kafka, and it's out now! Translated by Semi Hezil

Dr Ruth Diver wins the Scott Moncrieff Prize for her translation of #TheConvoy by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, the record of her escape from the genocide in Rwanda. 'An extraordinarily powerful book.' Philippe Sands 'A precious thing [...] A testament of enduring love.' Fergal Keane

Many thanks to The Society of Authors, and to IFRU London who generously support the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and to @artscouncilireland.bsky.social, @literatureireland.bsky.social, the CNL & the Institut français, who made the publication of this book possible.

They found themselves among excellent company, sharing the shortlist with translators and titles published by presses such as New Directions Publishing, @openborderspress.bsky.social and @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.

Our warmest congratulations to the winner Ruth Diver for a translation of The Convoy by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse (@openborderspress.bsky.social), and to runner up Frank Wynne!

We are so thrilled to share this wonderful news! A huge congratulations to Ruth Diver, the winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for her translation of Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's harrowing #Memoir #TheConvoy. “Diver’s translation captures both the musical cadence and moral weight of the original.”

Good luck to all of the incredible translators shortlisted, including the brilliant @ruthdiver.bsky.social, translator of Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's harrowing #Memoir #TheConvoy, where Beata reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda.