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.

Heard that Harlequin France may be replacing translators with AI? Not cool. If reading a book not published in its original language, check the copyright page for the translator's name (or their business's name). Some of my favourite translators include Rachel Ward (German to FULL TEXT IN ALT.

Sending all of our readers and followers who are celebrating today the merriest of Christmases... and the beauties of Icelandic traditions and Jólabókaflóðið. No better way of spending Christmas Day than with a book!

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Over the moon and beyond to discover that Broken features in the Top 5 books of the year for @crimefictionlover.bsky.social. Congrats to author Jon Atli Jonasson and translator @graskeggur.bsky.social crimefictionlover.com/2025/12/crim...

Two broken cops. One irretrievably damaged - the other an outcast. #Broken by Jon Atli Jonasson, transl @graskeggur.bsky.social shows a side of Reykjavík no visitor would ever want to see, against a backdrop of a vicious vendetta and a price on Dóra’s head amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7

Corylus bring us many wonderful books in translation, opening up worlds of pleasure and insights into other cultures - give their hard work some well deserved support by checking out their fabulous titles and signing up for their newsletter! #FictionInTranslation #Crime #Mystery #IcelandicNoir

And honestly, we didn't pay them to do so, but we've just discovered that Gumshoe Books has Jon Atli Jonasson's Broken as one of their top books for 2025 on their site! 😍 So grateful! www.gumshoebooks.com/collections/...

Amazing news from @corylusbooks.bsky.social, whose books I have reviewed many times. They have teamed up with independent retailer Gumshoe Books. You can order paperbacks directly from them and they ship worldwide! www.gumshoebooks.com/collections/... @ewashe.bsky.social Avoid #Amazon! #BookSky 📚 💙

We haven't exactly been spamming anyone with too many newsletters this year, but all the more reason to sign up to receive our last one of the year, with lots of news about what to expect in 2026! corylusbooks.com/newsletter/

For reading recommendations off the beaten track, you can always count on literary journal Turkoslavia (and its contributors, among them our own @marinasofia.bsky.social) www.turkoslavia.com/2025-winter-...

@societyofauthors.bsky.social Huge congratulations to all those nominated for The Society of Authors' Translation Prizes! Translator Agnes Broomé is nominated for the Bernard Shaw Prize for Collected Works (cont.)

My Trip to Greenland with Tété-Michel Kpomassie As followers of this blog will know, my hero is Tété-Michel Kpomassie, the author of the landmark travel memoir An African in Greenland, translated by James Kirkup, which was my Togolese choice for my 2012 project to read a book from every country.…

And you might also want to check out our authentic Romanian crime novels as well - we've translated a few www.amazon.co.uk/Sword-Bogdan... www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Autum... www.amazon.co.uk/Resilience-B...

For Romanian National Day: What is Romanian Cuisine? open.substack.com/pub/irinageo...

One of the most unsettling books we've published! We've been reminding Oskar Gudmundsson that a sequel to The Commandments is long overdue, and he tells us he's working on it... 🤞 amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FXB9T1PM @graskeggur.bsky.social @crimefictionlover.bsky.social

Delighted to announce forthcoming Nordic Thriller Series ‘Brkn’ based on Jon Atli Jonasson's book #Broken, which is now available in English translation www.amazon.co.uk/Broken-Reykj...

And you can read Black Storms now, while waiting for the second volume to come out in 2026! corylusbooks.com/black-storms/

It's been a year since the funny, poignant and thrilling crime/social novel #BlackStorms came out, our first translation from Catalan. You can find out more about the author Teresa Solana and the translator Peter Bush, as well as us as publishers in this podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...

It's that time of week what have you been reading from around the world? #translationthurs

We don't just like Romanian literature but also Romanian films - and there's a great film festival coming up in London. Especially recommend the classic Forest of the Hanged @marinasofia.bsky.social's favourite for @jacquiwine.bsky.social

Who's ready to warm up with a trio of red-hot Stella Blómkvist adventures on an ice-cold day... amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G1B69GHT @graskeggur.bsky.social

Super excited for this one! And really hoping that the UK will get the Icelandic cover art, because it's gorgeous 😍👌

We're at work on the next novel from @solveigpals.bsky.social (well, when I say we, I mean @graskeggur.bsky.social) Working title: Ice Bears. It's not going to disappoint... There's time to get to know her backlist before the new book appears next summer! amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3638BJF

It's Monday again and today I'm still reading "One-Shot Wonders: Over 100 Adventures for Fantasy RPGs" by Sam Bartlett, Beth Davies, Destiny Howell, and Christina Hassan What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

📣 We’re proud to announce the publication of Postcards, Translators and #Esperanto Pioneers: An Alternative #History of International #Communication, a fascinating new #OpenAccess book published in association with @ihr.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/postcar... #Skystorians @sas-news.bsky.social

Der Himmel könnte noch blauer sein - I think he makes a fair point about the much slower pace of Bluesky, both a good and a bad thing www.arminwolf.at/2025/11/16/d... via @arminwolf.at

I'm so fed up with this. Languages are central to all of higher education. Everyone should be learning languages, precisely because it is hard. Not everything can be transacted in English. A monoglot English language University can only be poorer for the loss of languages. c.org/7nQdjc7cHJ

Thanks for the #UPWeek love, @literaryhub.bsky.social! Many university presses are dedicated to Teaming UP with translators to advance knowledge & understanding. Discover 17 outstanding examples to #ReadUP in “ Reading Around the World” https://bit.ly/43S4pf8#UPWeek#ReadUP..

Bumbling your way through any language will always be better than popping in AirPods. The literary translator Ross Benjamin on what we stand to lose in a world of instant translation:

Who else is getting excited about #IcelandNoir this week? Catch 3 of our authors (Oskar on Wednesday, Jon Atli on Thursday, Solveig on Friday), plus our sumptuously prolific translator @graskeggur.bsky.social (alongside a fantastic international line-up, including a certain creator of Squid Game)

Will @stellablomkvist.bsky.social be at Iceland Noir? Who knows? She could be there, quietly taking everything in, laughing at all of us... her identity remain a mystery even to @graskeggur.bsky.social, her translator amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G1B69GHT

Our AirBnB in Aberdeen in Feb'20 when I went up for my first ever Noir fest - #GraniteNoir with @jackycnoir64.bsky.social! I'm at the top & my pal, whose daughter lived in Abs at the time, hence our visit, is downstairs. Met Sólveig & Óskar from @corylusbooks.bsky.social! #SaturdayStairs #BookSky 🇮🇸

I sometimes lament that the Internet prompts people to scan nuanced pieces and miss their point entirely, or merely read top few sentences. But what if I become really shit at endings? Then I will no doubt crave the days when the vast majority only read the beginning www.tom-cox.com/what-will-li...

We are delighted to announce the judging panel for the 2025 Translation Prizes. Literary and translation experts from a wide variety of fields and, with a huge number of accolades between them, gather to judge works by translators.

14 titles have been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 chosen from 145 entries in 34 languages. A mix of genres on the list, 10 languages, 2 Nobel Prize winners, poetry, fiction, biography, short stories. Winner announced 27 November clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/04/w...

We know many of you prefer to buy paperbacks from indie booksellers, so we've partnered up with Gumshoe Books on our website, there are links to their site to buy each of our books, for example Broken - see the Gumshoe link at the bottom corylusbooks.com/broken/

AYE WRITE: MY PICK OF TWO UNMISSABLE EVENTS FROM AYE WRITE 6-16 NOVEMBER 2025 @AyeWrite @Brownlee_Donald liveanddeadly.net/2025/11/03/a...

*know and love! #Iceland #IcelandicNoir #BookSky #FictionInTranslation

'Weird coincidences are the Lord’s sick jokes,' as Stella Blomkvist's Mother would say. No one knows who Stella the author is, but we all know Stella the razor-sharp legal eagle

✨ Join us for the launch of Marcel Proust’s The Guermantes Way, newly translated by Peter Bush ✨ 🗓 Wednesday 19 November 2025 🕓 4.30–6.30pm (GMT) 📍 UEA Council Chamber & online (4.30–6pm) Refreshments served from 6-6.30 🥂 Register: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Calling all translators and interpreters! The UK government is trying to ditch human interpreters and translators for AI systems - the mistakes made by which could be critical, and literally life-altering. Please sign this petition. #xl8 #translation #interpreting #translatorslife

Some of my favourite #IcelandicNoir reads here! #BookSky 🇮🇸 #FictionInTranslation

Can't stop staring at the beautiful page dedicated to all of our publications so far on the Gumshoe Books website! www.gumshoebooks.com/collections/...

Discovered a new crime bookshop in Cambridge Bodies in the Bookshop and was pleased and proud that they knew about @corylusbooks.bsky.social and @graskeggur.bsky.social

What a great idea! Gumshoe Books now features a page with suggested mystery/crime novels for reading groups and book clubs www.gumshoebooks.com/pages/readin...

If this firecracker of a novella isn't banned in at least six US states, it ought to be... Little Rebel by Jérôme Leroy is a short read, but it more than makes up for that in sheer fizzing energy... a little gem! amazon.co.uk/dp/B097KCVCKY/