New translated books from @magpiebooks.bsky.social in Edmonton. The Painted Room and Kassandra And The Wolf. Shoutout to @interlinkbooks.bsky.social because I’ve never picked up anything less than perfect from them.

Happy, Happy #WITmonth!💃🎉📚 In August we celebrate books written by women in a language other than English that have been translated. Read (even if it's just one book), share, #NameTheTranslator without whom literature would be less rich. For more, do check out www.womenintranslation.org/witmonth

In this exclusive online essay, Dalia Al-Dujaili writes about the inspiration and research behind her debut, BABLYON, ALBION (@saqibooks.bsky.social), a nature-memoir exploring identity through the land-based mythologies of Britain and Iraq and family memories of migration. Read:

Our Summer Sale is HERE! Step into stories that span continents, cultures, and voices. Enjoy 30% off a curated collection of boundary-pushing fiction from the Saqi Bookshelf this August. Shop via saqibooks.com/subject/saqi... #SummerSale #BookSale #SaqiBooks

My first #witmonth read! Thank you to @arthurreiji.bsky.social for passing this one on to me! The office politics of food at its most terrorising. (Tr. by @wrongsreversed.bsky.social)

One day, we’ll return to our people, One day, we’ll gather the sorrow of days and the garments of patience, and return to our people. arablit.org/2025/07/30/m...

Very fun to have a new book translation come out that I had nothing to do with but apparently am expected to give interviews for

An exciting @thebookerprizes.com list! I have @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social’s One Boat ready to go, but there’s lots for me to check out here. Congratulations everyone!

Congratulations to Ledia Xhoga! Her novel MISINTERPRETATION is on the Booker longlist!!

The sky witnesses a world at the brink of rupture in these two poems by Sinan Antoon. Read “No Sign of Injury in the Sky: Two Poems,” translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel, on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Absolutely wonderful. If you love Ferrante, you’ll love this book, and I know a fckton of you love Ferrante Exqusite job, @robmunb.bsky.social! (CW: SA)

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up at yourparty.uk.

It’s the end of June. There was a lot of work reading and re-reading this month but I did read loads of brilliant books for the first time. Here are my favourites. Samanta Schweblin and Barbara Pym were the absolute highlights. It was a great month for translated literature

of course my TBR tripled on my recent trip back to the UK. With wonderful new reads from @charcopress.com @grantamag.bsky.social @sublunary.bsky.social @honfordstar.bsky.social and more!

Semishigure by Shuhei Fujisawa (translated by Thomas Harper) has finally been published. Get your copy wherever books are sold! ⚔️ honfordstar.com/products/sem...

Congratulations to all the translators and authors longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize! We hope the readers have a swell time!

I've been reading exclusively Black American writers for US Black History Month and wanted to share some all-time favourites from US/CAN authors Perfect to pick up now or anytime, these stories and authors are to be read year-round #BookSky

QUEER ANTHOLOGY BOOKS FOR LOVERS OF SHORT STORIES You can buy these and more queer fiction at www.proud-geek.co.uk (A list of book titles and authors can be found in the alt text) #queerbooks #booksky

Yorkshire faces severe climate impacts: heatwaves, floods, coastal erosion, biodiversity loss, rising prices - and refugee crises loom by 2100 | Kevin Paulson @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

We are excited to announce our 2025 Annual Subscriptions! Don't miss out on your chance to save on this year's titles. For the first time, we have introduced an annual subscription specifically designed for North America! www.tiltedaxispress.com/store/2025-uk-print-subscription

Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

This. A thousand times this.

We are pleased to announce this year's new titles, stunning covers by Jaya Nicely, AND the 2025 S&T Classics YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION! 🎉 Six newly revisited classics in conversation sent straight to your doorstep all year: spring, summer, fall. Only at unnamedpress.com

We need rent controls — and we need them now. www.bbc.com/news/article...

My first book of poetry coming soon from Black Square Editions.

70k signatures to rejoin the EU. Big petition, timely too - polling shows the public is in favour. Let’s get it to 100k and push Labour to debate rejoining. It’s the glaringly obvious solution our economic problems and the rise of the far right. Please repost. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Voter ID as made compulsary by the Tory Government in 2023 prevented a lot of people from being able to vote | Ralph Scott

Currently reading (and loving) my first Milan Kundera novel, thanks to finding it in a little free library. Timely indeed!

We’re thrilled to announce that the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open! ⭐ Our 2025 panel is chaired by Romesh Gunesekera with three category judges @antonhur.com, @noreenmasud.bsky.social d.bsky.social, and Yasmine Seale. Enter: www.wasafiri.org/writing-priz...

OpenAI right now

They set up a snitch line for DEI in the federal government. If you feel like sending your best copies of the bee movie script or some queer smut, have at it. [email protected]

We're delighted to share further details for 4 previously announced shows, in what will be Director #RufusNorris’ final season 🎭 - Inter Alia - The Estate - The Land of the Living - End Tickets will go on sale to the public on 6 February 2025.

@honfordstar.bsky.social killing it with their covers as usual. Out soon! #japaneselit #translatedlit