Our brand new catalogue for 2026 is now out - so do check it out! Tuscany, Algeria, the American South and Croatia are the settings for our wonderful line-up of novels coming out next year. Any journalists interested in review copies, do please DM us. #novels #travels #crimefiction #fiction

Not sure that the half hour walk to this highly recommended café in my neighbourhood was worth it, when I have one with much better cakes and really friendly owners on my doorstep. But I was in an exploring mood...

For ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER fans, there’s a great podcast discussion here between PTA and Steven Spielberg, via The Director’s Cut DGA podcast. #FilmSky #OBBA podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Zum Geburtstag von Pierre Bonnard werfen wir einen Blick auf sein Paris. Pierre Bonnard (3. Oktober 1867 - 23. Januar 1947): Montmartre sous la pluie, 1897.

In this episode @mookse.bsky.social and l are joined by @lorifeathers.bsky.social, using The Portrait of a Lady as our foundation to explore what makes a work abundant. We move through other examples, asking what defines abundance, how it differs from size or ambition, and why these books matter.

So-called 'bad track' is complete and utter bollocks.

My Substack post for October is live! The usual soul-baring stuff from me, including what I did in the Moomin Museum... Also some book chat and details about my forthcoming workshops for the poetry-haters! open.substack.com/pub/victoria...

I may not have bookshelves (yet) but I have a ladder! And plenty of books, of course

Draft of my paper on Politics and Policing in Post-Communist Europe is up on @ssrn.bsky.social if that's your kind of thing. Even if it's not your kind of thing, it is still there. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #Criminology #Police #Politics #Postcommunism

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Proud owner of a new Delonghi coffee machine, although I did have to carry it through half of Berlin on public transport (together with Korean dictionaries and posters from my seller)

Bedbugs (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać) is the September pick for the Asymptote Book Club! “Pushing the frenetic and confessional potentials of the epistolary form, Martina Vidaić charts the psychological dissolution of her protagonist.” Read the full review here: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...

Where I pledge for reading more Bulgarian literature and talking about it: wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/09/wolf... #amreading #bookblogger #booknerd

Fresh, razor-sharp edge to Nordic Noir... Jón Atli Jónasson's remarkable Broken digs deeper, goes a step further, hits all the right notes... 'Completely unpredictable, yet bleakly inevitable,' says Antony Johnston. 'Quality Icelandic noir.'

Finally a new blog post from me, despite still having no Internet at home findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s...

September Summary and Settling In findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s...

"Professionelle Pflege bleibt unterfinanziert, Pflegekräfte bleiben unterbezahlt, die Entlastungssysteme für Familien sind lückenhaft. Es ist ein System, das Abhängigkeit produziert und zugleich Autonomie verspricht." www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

When the Wind Blows: An Animated Tale of Nuclear Apocalypse With Music by Roger Waters & David Bowie (1986)

Is there such a thing as ideal number of tourists? Read Romanian article complaining about drop in tourist numbers, while Japan, Italy and Spain are complaining about overtourism. S. Korea delighted about its growing popularity but cracks are starting to show...

Concert with the Berlin Chamber Orchestra at the Philharmonie tonight. Unusual music, all new to me

More admin: I've updated the apersonalanthology.com website with Leon Craig's pick of a dozen favourite short stories. Check them out here, along with a flabbergasting *3,350* other personal story recommendations!

I Want to Break Free* margot-kin-berg.com/2025/09/25/i...

Winding Up the Week #440 bookjotter.com/2025/09/27/w...

15th blogiversary: content evolution along the years via @wordsandpeace.bsky.social wordsandpeace.com/2025/09/27/1...

Café just opposite my flat has the most delicious quiche and cakes and an owner who was telling me about all the things to do in Wedding. I think I'll be a regular here until my kitchen arrives (no picture because there's a children's birthday party next to me)

At the Tegel Harbour Fair yesterday, I couldn't resist this little guide to the wildlife in Berlin (came with two lively posters as well), although there's really no shortage of books still in boxes...

In @thewalrus.ca, @tajjaisen.bsky.social has a terrific reported essay on publishing, which I recommend highly. I know that people in publishing will argue endlessly over what does and does not help make books "succeed," so with that grain of salt: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The fun never ends in Berlin...

Catalan fiction is something we definitely keep an eye on. @marinasofia.bsky.social is a big fan. We're currently working on the second book in @teresasolanawriter.bsky.social's trilogy set in Barcelona - crime fiction with dark humour and lots of social depth

Another day, another cafe in my neighbourhood...

Lack of Internet is proving very conducive to my reading: chatty autobiography of conductor Karl Böhm and a return to the mesmerising prose of Javier Marias (via Margaret Jull Costa) - Thus Bad Begins

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” – Robert Hughes

Through the weekend, preorder our new translation of Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900 and save 30% on all previously published Walter Benjamin titles.

Giaime Alonge and translator Clarissa Botsford read from THE FEELING OF IRON (europaeditions.bsky.social, 2025). From the horrors of WWII to the spy games of the Cold War: a haunting tale of survival, vengeance, and the enduring shadows of history.

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books p.s. My new book of science cartoons is here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Today I’m starting Writing from Paris. This term: Hemingway, Barbusse, Apollinaire, Colette, Hughes, Breton, Aragon and Cavalcanti. Course is fully subscribed but there are some brilliant courses and events at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution if you’re in London.

From the archive for Madeleine Bourdouxhe, #BornOnThisDay in 1906, thoughts on LA FEMME DE GILLES (tr. Faith Evans), a striking novella of love, desire and duplicity. If you're a fan of Jean Rhys, you'll appreciate this book! #BookSky #TranslationThurs 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/l...

Really illuminating article. Well done Sam and Elly for putting this out there.

Saul Bellow nailing* the importance of physical media (cf:, lps, cds, dvds, etc) from The Dangling Man, 1944. * for me, anyways

Instead of moaning that the living room doesn't get much sunlight, I'm trying to sell it to myself as 'cosy'

#Translators open up the entire world to us; give them the credit they deserve. @graskeggur.bsky.social @marinasofia.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @annierutherford.bsky.social @bcltuea.bsky.social @iangiles.bsky.social @alice-banks.bsky.social @racheltranslates.bsky.social

For the Almanac, I wrote about Lafcadio Hearn and the value of publishing a “bad” translation: open.substack.com/pub/paradise...

I may not have room to put it in the guest room and no room elsewhere to unpack most of my stuff but the guest sofa-bed has arrived

Evaluating Large Language Models Against Human in Stage Play Translation Stage play translation is uniquely challenging because it demands more than literal language transfer; translators must preserve dramatic tone, cultural nuance, and metaphorical reso- nance to maintain the t #sociology link

Think my desktop got damaged in transit so I drowned my sorrows in a Busan cultural evening

My mattress and I will finally be reunited after 53 days!

jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/09/22/r... via @jenlucas.bsky.social

A thrilling aural experiment: I reviewed Cow | Deer at the #RoyalCourt Jerwood Theatre Upstairs for @newjournal.bsky.social - www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/revi...

A bit late to the party, but here's my look at Mircea Cărtărescu's 'Solenoid' (translated by Sean Cotter, published by Deep Vellum Publishing), a mind-bending tale of a man and his electromagnet ;) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/s...

Busy day...