The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for ‘shame to change sides’. For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story. A Hymn to Life will be published in February 2026. Order your copy today: lnk.to/GiselePelicot

Gratifying to see that one of the Guardian's picks for 2026 is Gisèle Pelicot's memoir, A HYMN TO LIFE, co-translated by Natasha Lehrer and yours truly. A heartbreaking but necessary read.

FULL HOUSE @foylesforbooks.bsky.social last night for the charismatic, incredible Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse talking to @fergalkeane.bsky.social about their shared experiences and memories of her escape from #Rwanda at the age of 15, and her IMMENSE, moving #memoir #TheConvoy t @ruthdiver.bsky.social

#PublicationDay One of the most powerful stories of #courage you will ever read… Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s urgent memoir #TheConvoy documents her escape from the 1994 #genocide in #Rwanda #translator @ruthdiver.bsky.social 📲https://geni.us/j0NwPE 📙https://geni.us/zv5Ytrv #BookSky #memoir

Today, [...] the US delegation to the UN voted against a resolution condemning Russia for its aggression in Ukraine and calling for it to end its occupation. That is, the U.S. voted against a resolution that reiterated that one nation must not invade another[...].

THE CONVOY, by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, tells the story of her search for documentary evidence of her escape from the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in June 1994. She wat 15 at the time. For friends in the UK, the author will be making several presentations of her work.

February 2, 2025

Wonderful to see Charif Majdalani's A History of the Big House reviewed in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...

Thrilled to get my translator's copies! Charif Majdalani's delightful reimagining of his family history in the orange groves of Mount Lebanon, from the time of the Ottoman empire through the French mandate to the present day, a lesson in resistance & resilience. Publishing w Other Press in Dec/Jan.

I wrote this, and it's from the heart. And I'm scared of putting it out in the world. www.patreon.com/posts/92308751

For any readers of Russian out there, an interview with Iegor Gran, given in French to Radio France International and translated into Russian, entitled 'For me, "great Russian culture" is the Gulag.' www.rfi.fr/ru/%D0%BE%D0...

Brimming with excitement! Tomorrow is UK pub day for THE COMPETENT AUTHORITY, Iegor Gran's novel about his father, the dissident Andrei Sinyavsky, whose notorious trial in 1966, for the contents of hid literary works published abroad under a pseudonym, marked the end of the Thaw.