Translation and Taste Learning how to have good taste means learning to translate. By Blake Smith hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso... #books #literature #translators

(2/2) recently on @hobeckbooks.bsky.social podcast interview with Quentin about his entry into reading Icelandic during his time on the fishing boats 🥰 Check out #Broken and loads of other #IcelandicNoir books translated by Quentin from the lovely @corylusbooks.bsky.social! #SupportAnIndie 💙📚

The @corylusbooks.bsky.social tour for #ALethalLegacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir (trans by @graskeggur.bsky.social) is in full flow with some great reviews to check out . A haunting and powerful story of family disputes and sickening crimes of the past. peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/a...

Another exciting release from @corylusbooks.bsky.social, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social ! Check out the blog tour for A Lethal Legacy below! #Iceland #IcelandicNoir #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙 I have a name quirk that meant it took me a while to get the sisters straight in my head but once in I really enjoyed it! 🤩

Whether rain or shine, here's the perfect weekend plan: Curl up with a portion of dark-as-night Nordic Noir shot through with black humour and characters who leap off the page. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7 @graskeggur.bsky.social @davidheadley.bsky.social

Absolutely chuffed to see Oskar Gudmundsson on this impressive shortlist! The Petrona Award brings such fantastic books to the fore, year after year!

Nothing has changed at Bjargarlækur for as long as anyone can remember – so are moves to bring change to this remote Icelandic farm a motive for murder? Coming soon – rural darkness and intrigue from Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMRSFTHX/ @graskeggur.bsky.social

Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨ Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

🎶TRANSLATORS & SCHOLARS OF TRANSLATION: You can sign up for just this series (without getting all the rest of the ArabLit emails) here: between2translators.substack.com

'Happiness finally came calling when I’d given up waiting for it, as Mother said.' Or has it...? You can never be sure with Stella! Check out the adventures of @stellablomkvist.bsky.social – Iceland's best kept Nordic Noir secret... amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CFZM2BR3

Looking forward to the next @solveigpals.bsky.social book next year! If you haven't yet encountered Reykjavík detectives Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún, check out the four in the series to date. amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Y5NPMKV

Here's an #AwesomeFoursome for #BuyABookDay that'll also happily #SupportAnIndie! Preorder from @orendabooks.bsky.social Ragnar Jónasson (9/10)& @liljawriter.bsky.social (23/10) & if you need an #IcelandicNoir fix NOW @corylusbooks.bsky.social have you covered with #Broken & #MurderTide! 🇮🇸 #BookSky

Highly recommended. Although I may be slightly biased.

Something to curl up with as the nights start to draw in...? Broken is the first of a razor-edged crime trilogy shot through with black humour and characters who leap off the page amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7 @graskeggur.bsky.social

#translation #translator #翻訳 #翻訳者

If you like #IcelandicNoir, @hobeckbooks.bsky.social have had an #AwesomeFoursome of interviews with 3 @corylusbooks.bsky.social authors (Jónína Leosdottir, Jón Atli Jónasson & here, Sólveig Pálsdóttir) & their translator (& author himself!), @graskeggur.bsky.social! Give'em a listen & buy books! 💙📚

Sorry, everyone, been missing in action because SOMEone (naming no @marinasofia.bsky.social names) has been having trouble connecting to the Corylus account on Bluesky while moving from house to house to house... Normal activity to resume now, what have we missed?

Murder mystery set in REYKJAVIK Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist Tr: quentin Bates (Stella Blómkvist Book 2) www.tripfiction.com/murder-myste... "..another enjoyable book and I hope there are more to come.." @corylusbooks.bsky.social @suekelsoryan.bsky.social #blueskybooks

My current read is one I picked up after a panel at @capitalcrime.bsky.social - Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson. Available now from @corylusbooks.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Broken-J%C3%... #books #booksky #amreading #broken

My current read - A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir, translated by Quentin Bates. Out Sept 20th from @corylusbooks.bsky.social #books #booksky #amreading #alethallegacy

Join us as Edith chats with the talented Jon Atli Jonasson, who shares insights into his Icelandic roots, crime writing, and his gripping novel 'Broken'! Dive into an intriguing mix of storytelling and societal reflections. Listen now! #IcelandicCrime player.captivate.fm/episode/f2a7...

Listened on my walk this morning, and have downloaded the book he recommended as well! Loved #Broken, and can't wait for lovely @graskeggur.bsky.social and @corylusbooks.bsky.social to bring us Book 2 - I really enjoyed the dynamic between Rado and Dóra! #Toxic (maybe!) #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙

Today's book choice is Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson, translated into English by @graskeggur.bsky.social #AmReading #Broken #JónAtliJónasson #QuentinBates #BookSky 📚💙 #⚡📚 #Books

Mixed views on this... What do you think, dear readers?

'Even readers who are relatively familiar with the setting are likely to learn something new about Icelanders and their communities' 😍

Wasn't sure if I heard @hobeckbooks.bsky.social' interview with @graskeggur.bsky.social when I listened to their @corylusbooks.bsky.social interviews, but when I got to Rebecca's 'handahófskennd spurning' I knew I hadn't! Q, you deserve awards for your books & translations, but here's this for now!

I was delighted to be involved with this recent cross-continent collaboration of #BookRecommendations in conj. with Carol aka @readingladiesbc.bsky.social Lots of fabulous reads with something for everyone Summer’s One Must Read Book 2025 ☀️📖 www.swirlandthread.com/summers-one-... #booksky 💙📚

Nothing like being ahead of the game... First draft of the sequel to Jón Atli Jónasson's Broken is in the bag. Edits, checking, proof-reading to come. Yes, it's just as meaty as Broken, and this translator did a little dance of delight when the Groke showed up again. @corylusbooks.bsky.social

Wúhú! If you haven't enjoyed #Broken yourself yet from @corylusbooks.bsky.social, jump on that bandwagon now without further ado, and join the rest of us in looking forward to this sequel in the works!! #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙

Excellent podcast episode from @hobeckbooks.bsky.social with some disturbing news about AI in publishing, & a great interview with @corylusbooks.bsky.social's fab new #Icelandic author, Jón Atli Jónasson, whose excellent novel #Broken, (tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social is also on the show) is out now! 💙📚

Unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offer from @catphoto.bsky.social Come on now.

And here's one we found on Pinterest of the International Brigades from Manchester (no photo credit, unfortunately). As featured in literature in #BlackStorms by Teresa Solana

'The Book of Sana'a, for outsiders, is a way in. But for people who know it, it brings it alive.'✍️ In the latest Comma blog, editor Laura Kasinof talks first impressions, Yemen's overlooked role in the region, & engaging with a place through fiction. 📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/the-boo...

'ScandiNoir meets classic detective fiction in this thriller/chiller... you'll be kept guessing until the very end' Short but sweet review of #Broken by Jon Atli Jonasson in The Sun, transl @graskeggur.bsky.social

When I Get Older, Losing My Hair* -older protagonists in crime fiction margot-kin-berg.com/2025/07/17/w...

Stella's back and more formidable than ever in "Murder Tide" and today's my day on the blog tour: "Stella is an unforgettable and eminently likeable character, if you like your cynicism and your whiskey nice and strong." @corylusbooks.bsky.social @graskeggur.bsky.social @ewashe.bsky.social

#MurderTide is 'wonderfully compact with a flawless translation and packed to the hilt with tightly constructed cases for Stella... a complete joy' @ravencrime.bsky.social on the blog tour for #StellaBlomkvist today @graskeggur.bsky.social ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/b...

'I loved both the story pace and the brevity, the complex maze of daily social and political interactions... hope there will be another book in the series soon' Yes, #StellaBlomkvist will be back next year says @graskeggur.bsky.social Great review wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/07/cory...

Craig Mod\'s life in motion in a disappearing Japan www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025...

If you use WeTransfer, you’ll want to take notice of its changes to terms and conditions. (Same if you use CapCut.) Another company thinking it has the right to take & use other people’s stuff to make profit. 😒 WeTransfer, this isn’t on👇🏾 Thanks to @justinleeanderson.com for the heads up

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

My husband has now read all the Blómkvist novels, and can’t wait to read more Palsdottir and Solana novels from Corylus. Such a great team here for translated crime fiction, and I’ve loved what I’ve read so far! #booksky

My buyers asking me about the plants in my garden. Sir, ma'am, other than peonies, camellias and roses, I can barely distinguish any other bushes... 🤭

In case anyone happens to be in or near Devon on September 9th, I'll be chatting to the esteemed @jonwoolcott.bsky.social about my new novel Everything Will Swallow You at Exeter Waterstones. Grab a ticket here: www.waterstones.com/events/every...

'This book is teeming with tension, and there are a few scenes that might have you on the edge of your seat... this is a series I am completely hooked on and I couldn’t hesitate to recommend it to fans of thriller fiction, especially in translation' jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/07/14/m...

What's everyone reading this weekend?

'As always, the pace and plotting worked seamlessly. But what I especially enjoyed in #MurderTide was the deepening characterisation of Stella, and I’m looking forward to seeing where she goes next' @madamebibi.bsky.social @graskeggur.bsky.social madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/07/12/m...

'Stella hasn’t lost her fire, despite being a little softer around the edges. #MurderTide contains enough twists and complex plotlines to keep even the most seasoned Nordic Noir reader entertained' @westwords.bsky.social @graskeggur.bsky.social westwordsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/m...

We love indie bookshops and we really recommend online crime fiction specialist Gumshoe Books. Not least because #Broken by Jon Atli Jonasson, transl. @graskeggur.bsky.social is the Book of the Month this July! www.gumshoebooks.com

New book day! I love this series and hope you're all following the fabulous #BlogTour 😁 @stellablomkvist.bsky.social @graskeggur.bsky.social @corylusbooks.bsky.social @ewashe.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚