Not much longer to wait now... Stella will be with you very shortly...

Proud to be highlighted in Gumshoe Books newsletter this week. Gumshoe Books is an independent crime fiction specialist bookshop and ships worldwide www.Gumshoebooks.com

Weather may be warming up but there's still plenty of Nordic chill (and cool) coming up. The Murder Pool by the mysterious Stella Blómkvist is available for pre-order (publ 5th March); the rest of the series is half-price right now! amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G7JL3SZ6 @graskeggur.bsky.social

A few initial thoughts about the International Booker Longlist for 2026 findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/i...

Four Days in Copenhagen and One Book alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/02/four...

Presenting the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies. Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

Been a supporter of this prize more or less since the outset so to be featured as a book of the month AND be asked to judge it during its 10th year is very, very special indeed. The longlist is awesome, news on the shortlist coming VERY soon......

Tove Telegraph (Freshly Updated Today!) #ToveTrove bookjotter.com/2026/01/12/t... #ToveJansson #Moomins

Ooops, confusion alert!

"A number of literary agencies are adding amendments to their submission guidelines urging authors not to use AI in their submissions, as agents report that its use across query letters and manuscripts is becoming more prevalent" www.thebookseller.com/news/literar...

'Drucaroff's writing, in the present tense, has a sense of immediacy which builds the tension, and the insight the book gives into the revolutionary lifestyle, and how violently human beings can behave towards one another, is unforgettable...' Thank you @kaggsy59.bsky.social for this superb review!

Just noticed Amazon supposedly has audiobooks of Zodiac and Resilience - but it's sheer title coincidence, they are NOT by Anamaria Ionescu and Bogdan Hrib respectively. You CAN get those books as e-books and paperbacks though corylusbooks.com/zodiac/ corylusbooks.com/resilience/

This week on Quick Book Reviews Podcast I chat with the brilliant @alisonbarrow.bsky.social (PR Director atTransworld) about debut novels, audiobook growth, publishing trends, and breaking into the industry. Thoughtful, practical, and very bookish. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

If you're wondering what all the fuss is about @stellablomkvist.bsky.social transl. @graskeggur.bsky.social the first 3 crime novels in the series are available on Kobo at a special price now. And you can pre-order the 4th in the series, coming out on 5th March. Great TV series too! bit.ly/4qP2xfM

Kind words indeed. Bogdan T will be very much missed

I know @corylusbooks.bsky.social are pestering Óskar for a third book, so keep your eyes peeled! In the meantime they've got plenty of other great #Icelandic authors on their books, some on special offer atm I believe! 😁 #BookSky #Iceland

At @corylusbooks.bsky.social we publish translated crime fiction with a social edge, from Icelandic, Romanian, Catalan and more. Next in our beloved (prickly, courageous, larger than life) Stella Blomkvist series is coming out in March www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Pool-...

Could Bucharest possibly be snowier than Reykjavik at the moment?

Our newsletter is going out later today, so if you want to hear ALL our latest news and you haven't signed up yet, you know what to do: corylusbooks.com/newsletter/

This could be inspiration for a future crime novel, surely...

In The Spotlight: Jerry Brooks' You're So Wrong: A Boston Crime Novel - who else loves crime novels with a very strong sense of place? margot-kin-berg.com/2026/02/17/i...

#ReadIndies: Some Corylus Books Recommendations findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/r...

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️❤️

I love Stella. She really is a force to be reckoned with. 🙂

So much fun to translate these! Stella is something special!

She's back - bigger, badder and more unstoppable than ever! 'Stella is a force of nature' said The Times. Now #4 is ready for pre-order (get your hands on previous titles in the series at a reduced price as well) www.amazon.co.uk/stores/page/... @graskeggur.bsky.social @stellablomkvist.bsky.social

This is rather lovely...

Our fourth foray into Stella's world... and it's getting personal!

Join award-winning translator Adriana Hunter for the French (Advanced) Workshop at BCLT Summer School 2026 🌞 This year's Summer Summer School will take place ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026 🌞 Find out more, apply and download an example programme: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Here's the Amazon page where you can find previous Stella titles at special prices - and some of our other titles as well! www.amazon.co.uk/stores/page/...

Fresh Stella! Look out for The Murder Pool - classic @stellablomkvist.bsky.social with all the twists and double crosses anyone could desire. Pre-order now and get all the previous titles on Kobo, Apple and Amazon amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G7JL3SZ6 www.kobo.com/ww/en/series...

#TBRuary Day 4: Speaking Your Language For today's pick, choose a book from your TBR that's a translation of something originally written in a language you don't speak. Don't be shy about asking for recommendations if you need them! #booksky #readingcommunity #writesky #writingcommunity

Narcissism, creativity, and the return to self open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

Excellent article: No one meant harm. Everyone is doing their best... But morality does not reside in intention alone; it resides in effect. Publishing cannot claim exemption from ethical scrutiny simply because its harms are bureaucratic, delayed, or diffuse www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...

“There are almost certainly stories we’re missing out on by only reading English-language fiction… The more translated fiction we read, the more our view of the world expands.”

My Sunday read, a new one from a great small press specialising in translated from fiction @corylusbooks.bsky.social - gifted to me by @marinasofia.bsky.social Set during Argentina’s Dirty War, I really recommend check out it and the press’s other books

New read day. Today it is time to hit The Murder Pool by Stella Blómkvist, translated by @graskeggur.bsky.social . Published by @corylusbooks.bsky.social on 5th March, I can’t wait to see what Stella’s caught up in now! www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Pool-... #books #booksky #amreading #themurderpool

If, like me, you're looking forward to the next instalment from Norma Forester and her unconventional family in the sequel to @teresasolanawriter.bsky.social's #BlackStorms from @corylusbooks.bsky.social, you'll enjoy hearing from Teresa, her translator, & her publisher in this podcast! #BookSky 🔎💀📚

Yay, so happy about this! Watch this space and prepare by reading the Romanian authors we've published at @corylusbooks.bsky.social

There Are Places I'll Remember All My Life, Though Some Have Changed* margot-kin-berg.com/2026/01/29/t...

In February 2026 @senatehouselib.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence. This is to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the upcoming exhibition ‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, and to provide a contemporary response to it in print. 1/3

2 bird similes in Orwell's Homage to Catalonia 1..wandering about the dark valleys with the stray bullets flying high overhead like redshanks whistling. 2 The position was perched on razor-back of limestone with dug-outs driven horizontally into the cliff like sand-martins' nests

This weekend, our newsletter came out, and you can read it here. We're going to London and Berlin, and we've got loads of online events too. We'd love to meet you! We'll also be popping up all over Europe on 11 Feb for our 2nd birthday so watch this space 👀 open.substack.com/pub/european...

The characters are interesting and fun to be with, and the epilogue provides a moving suggestion of an intense past relationship between Britain and Catalonia. Plus, it’s an unusual region to be covered by translation into English, so double Kudos to Corylus! 🩸🏆 #booksky

Special introductory offer on Kobo for first book in a trilogy: #BlackStorms by @teresasolanawriter.bsky.social set in Barcelona, #Broken by Jon Atli Jonasson set in Reykjavik www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

Since our directors are translators as well as publishers, we can assure you that will never be the case with Corylus...

HarperCollins will use AI to translate Harlequin romance novels. “I will tell you that the author community is up in arms about this, as we are anytime an announcement arrives that involves cutting back on human creativity and ingenuity in order to save money,” author Caroline Lee told 404 Media.

What are your #travel and #reading plans for 2026? #blueskybooks #booksky

My Books of the Year, in which I ponder why 2025 wasn't a banner reading year for me, and what that might actually mean. tinycamels.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/b...

"Why wasn’t anything selling? Would I even be a literary translator anymore after the current book contract? In the end, it was this last question that pushed me into going through with the residency; I wanted to prove that I really was, indeed, a literary translator." From 2019.