Fun was had, books were bought📚 Compliments to my lovely partner & thanks to everyone who shared their opinion on my wishlist 🧡 #bookSky #WITMonth #womenInTranslation

I recently registered for a Spanish language course starting next month, after spending a month trying to decide between Spanish and Italian. Now I randomly found this Ginzburg in the original Italian and I half regret my decision…

New on the blog: I wrote about Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone, tr. by Antonella Lettieri - a lyrical investigation into the life and death of Calandrone's mother in post-war Italy. Perfect for #WITMonth! @foundryeditions.bsky.social #bookSky alexandracristie.com/2025/08/14/r...

My latest review for #WITMonth, SUNKEN CITY by Marta Barone (tr Julia MacGibbon). I loved this thoroughly absorbing story of the personal & the political, which delves into the tangled history of Italy's Years of Lead. Margaret Drabble is a fan! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/s...

New on the blog: I wrote about Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone, tr. by Antonella Lettieri - a lyrical investigation into the life and death of Calandrone's mother in post-war Italy. Perfect for #WITMonth! @foundryeditions.bsky.social #bookSky alexandracristie.com/2025/08/14/r...

An ongoing thread of some excellent books by #womenintranslation - all read since last August. 🧵 #WITMonth #TranslationThurs #BookSky #ReadWomen 💙📚

At the charity shop where I volunteer, there are occasional, magic events where I open a bag of books donated by someone, and I don’t know who this person is, or what they look like, but I know she (I’m also sure she’s a she) is my kindred spirit. #bookSky

Announcing Short Story September! anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/12/a...

We've been sitting on a secret... Delighted to announce our brand-new imprint, Outsider Classics 📚 Books for readers pursuing stories fallen by the wayside, from the voices history left in the margins. Read more here: www.thebookseller.com/news/dead-in...

Still loving Natalia Ginzburg, read for #Womenintranslation Month2025 peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/v...

New on the blog today, I've written about A WOMAN by Sibilla Aleramo (tr Erica Segre & Simon Carnell) A remarkable autobiographical feminist novel that reads like a cry for liberty, independence & intellectual fulfilment in an oppressive world. #WITMonth 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/a...

I don’t know when I became someone who reads memoir, but I’m loving it at the moment! I finished Your Little Matter, which is one of my best of the year so far, and I’m excited to start A Woman in the Polar Night this evening 📚 #WITMonth #bookSky @foundryeditions.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com

There's been a devastating increase in wildfires - even in the heart of our capital - putting people at risk and destroying precious habitats and wildlife. Experts link these fires to increasingly extreme weather. We're urging political leaders to take real action to tackle the #ClimateCrisis. 🌍🔥

Help me for a thing, please: Who are your favourite UK-based trade publishers that started up since 2017 and are still going today? Small and indie, preferably (imprints don't count).

Partner is taking me on a bookshop crawl for my birthday. It's a yearly tradition & I take the opportunity to browse & discover new books, but I also like to make a wishlist for inspo. Now, from my wishlish or from outside it, give me your recommendations! #bookSky

#WITMonth #currentlyReading #bookSky

New #bookmail: ✨What Remains✨ by Brais Lamela, tr. Jacob Rogers Set between the 1950s and the present, between Galicia and New York, and described as 'a meditation on the ruins of memory and an urgent exploration of identity, colonialism, and resistance' Thanks @bullaunpress.bsky.social! #bookSky

Happy #WITMonth! 🎉📚 If you're looking for recommendations, here's this list I made in 2023, containing some of my all time favourite books. I've a second list in the works, containing books I've read since - there's no shortage of bangers here #bookSky alexandracristie.com/2023/08/01/1...

‘It”s a creation myth in many ways. And actually, the creation of the novel itself has become its own creation myth.’ Adam Thirlwell and Marina Warner discuss Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, in an extended extract from their Close Readings subscription series: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

New on the blog: Libraries of Helsinki, photo diary Because I'm back from holiday and the bookish spaces in Helsinki blew me away! #bookSky alexandracristie.com/2025/07/30/p...

Love seeing people preparing for the start of #WITMonth tomorrow! Here’s my stack of possibilities (well, a conservative selection of them) 📚 Spotting any favourites? #bookSky #WomenInTranslation

August is Women in Translation Month, or #WITMonth, an annual celebration of women writers from around the world. Here's the stack of books by women in translation that I read over the past 11 months since last August. Titles, authors and translators in the comments.

So many possibilities in my tbr for #WITMonth. Here are a few.

Do you have opinions about book covers? (I know you do. ;-)) Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey? (Please share, too!)

New on the blog: Libraries of Helsinki, photo diary Because I'm back from holiday and the bookish spaces in Helsinki blew me away! #bookSky alexandracristie.com/2025/07/30/p...

Goodbye, Estonia! You’ve been utterly lovely! 💙🇪🇪 I was hoping to find a better selection of Estonian literature in English while here but, alas, there just isn’t that much of it in print. I only bought this second hand volume of Jaan Kross. I’m still looking for recommendations! #bookSky

Spotted in a gorgeous bookshop in Helsinki! @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social I’ve got plenty more bookish photos to get off my camera once I get home (the central library is from another world), but the Finns do know their books! 📚🇫🇮 #bookSky

My holiday reads, to match my journey through Helsinki and Estonia. Love reading books by local authors while travelling 🧡 #bookSky #currentlyReading #womenInTranslation

Exciting bookmail from @charcopress.com : On Earth As It Is Beneath: a Hunger Games-esque psychological thriller set in penal colony in Brazil’s wilderness Restoration: inspired by ‘old stories made anew’, it addreses female desire, toxic relationships and the male gaze Out in August! #bookSky

New on the blog: I wrote about Dalia Al-Dujaili's Babylon, Albion, an insightful mix of memoir and nature writing that interrogates and reframes the concepts of migration and belonging. @saqibooks.bsky.social #bookSky alexandracristie.com/2025/07/07/r...

Books I read in June. Gathering the books for the picture, I realised it's all indie presses, which always leads to a great reading month ✨ @saqibooks.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social #PeirenePress @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social #bookSky #BooksInTranslation

New on the blog today, I've written about some of my favourite novels set in London. Featuring books by Patrick Hamilton, Muriel Spark, Anita Brookner, Olivia Manning and more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/l...

Books I read in June. Gathering the books for the picture, I realised it's all indie presses, which always leads to a great reading month ✨ @saqibooks.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social #PeirenePress @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social #bookSky #BooksInTranslation

My new blog post on Celia Fremlin's terrific, unsettling short story collection, DON'T GO TO SLEEP IN THE DARK. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/d... #CeliaFremlin #bookreview

New on the blog: I wrote about Dalia Al-Dujaili's Babylon, Albion, an insightful mix of memoir and nature writing that interrogates and reframes the concepts of migration and belonging. @saqibooks.bsky.social #bookSky alexandracristie.com/2025/07/07/r...

Picked this up on a whim & then I inhaled it over the weekend! I came for the mouse plague and stayed for the existential dread. Loved it! @sceptrebooks.bsky.social #bookSky #AustralianLit

New on the blog today, I've written about ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I by Solvej Balle (tr. Barbara J Haveland). An intriguing, high-concept, metaphysical novel that I didn't quite connect with. #BookSky #WomenInTranslation #BookReview 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/o...

I saved this stack from the bin at the charity shop I volunteer at (I know!), thinking I'll see what I keep & take the rest to a little free library. I'm very undecided though. I'll definitely keep Joyce as I read it & wanted my own copy - do people have any strong feelings about the rest? #bookSky

The weekend charity shop gods have smiled upon me! #bookSky

Fancy 50% off all our published books? Because we're a "real" company, urgh, we've got to do some market research. So here's the deal, fill in our survey and in return we'll give you a 50% off code. It should take like five minutes. Deal? us6.list-manage.com/survey?u=12c...

May the only pain that finds me be the pain inflicted by great literature. I finished The City and the House yesterday, my fifth and favourite Ginzburg so far. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social #bookSky #WomenInTranslation #ItalianLit

I am returned home; I brought books: left from Cambridge, right from Brighton. The charity shops weren't as exciting as I remembered them, but this was also a conscious decision because two years ago, while on the same trip, I broke my suitcase with the amount of books I bought. #bookSky

New on the blog: Books from the Baltic countries 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 a literary itinerary to match my holiday itinerary next month alexandracristie.com/2025/06/18/r...

New on the blog: Books from the Baltic countries 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 a literary itinerary to match my holiday itinerary next month alexandracristie.com/2025/06/18/r...

I've reached my friend's house. She's been working today, so I spent the afternoon with Montserrat Roig, that handome boy and that fussy lady by the window. If life could always be this simple... #bookSky

Spent my weekend with this novel about a schoolgirl in 1960s Czechoslovakia. As expected, it places childhood innocence against the darker political background. The protagonist is quite astute in her observations, but her child pov softens what could've been a much darker novel. Enjoyed it. #bookSky

My new blog post today on some favourite books featuring three generations of women. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/f...

I'll be visiting my best friend next week, which means I'll be taking a long train journey between Edinburgh and Brighton, which means I need to pick a book for the trip. These are my current candidates. Any thoughts? The Roig isn't that long, but let's face it I'll be buying books anyway. #bookSky

I don't typically read in the morning, but over the last few days I've been spending a bit of time with Natalia over my morning coffee and it's just lovely ✨ This might be the way to go with her novels, as I usually have a hard time trying not to gulp them down. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social #bookSky

In the mail today: ✨ Chilco ✨ by Daniela Catrileo, translated by Jacob Edelstein A novel in which 'the wounds of capitalism and empire inflict themselves on the person and on the land, but linger most devastatingly in language and memory'. Thanks @charcopress.com ! 🧡 #bookSky #WomenInTranslation