Early arrival in York just on bus into town

Slow England game so far heat hits the game

My #translationthurs read is this gem

What have you been reading from around the world this week ? #translationthurs

Currently reading - and recommending - ‘Greek Lessons’ by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith & Emily Yae Won)

My #translationthurs read is this book an Arabic Booker winner

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

Tonights read is an Arabic Booker winner

This evening reading this

I’ve just started Grandma Non-Oui by Lidija Dimkovska, translated from Macedonian by Christina Kramer istrosbooks.com/product/gran... 🇲🇰 #WomenInTranslation #TranslationThurs

It’s Agnes Owens’s centenary on Sunday. I was thrilled to be able to write about her life and her bitterly funny books for @theobserveruk.bsky.social, talking to her family, her first readers (“What the fuck is this?!”), her first publisher, and fans like Douglas Stuart:

My #translationthurs read is

Little late but here we go what have you been reading from around the world this #translationthurs ?

What's everyone reading at the mo

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The Guardian launches its '100 best novels of all time' list, with numbers 100-81. I was one of the 172 authors, critics and academics polled. Afaik, two of my ten choices made the final cut, one in this first tranche:

This evenings read

@nachtdufter.bsky.social hi

Evening all

My current reads #translationthurs

What are you reading from around the world this week #translationthurs

www.euronews.com/culture/2026... sad news indeed

Morning all it's that time of week again what have you been reading from around the world? #translationthurs

@nonsuchbook.bsky.social you got a few right there I didn't do a post but think I will next year this years list is the best for a couple of years already with out reading a lot of the books

Four books I have the other ones I have ordered or asked for off publishers or both and had reviewed three books from the longlist @thebookerprizes.com

Love that we are maintaining the unbroken pattern of making the Booker list every two years... @charcopress.com thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Be starting the remember soldier and reading she who remains as well @thebookerprizes.com

thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... finally here and I've managed to order the books asked for possible proofs and have some on tbr and had reviewed three surprised women without men is there as had been out years ago

Olga Ravn! thebookerprizes.com/media-centre...

Not bad longlist I've read and reviewed three books this year @thebookerprizes.com

Oh a better year have three books on the blog already @thebookerprizes.com the wax child woman without men and on earth as it is beneath

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of the High Street in #Crail, East Neuk of Fife. Crail became a Royal Burgh in 1178 in the reign of King William the Lion tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2011/03/old-...

Looking forward to the list tomorrow. Been struggling to limit my own list of guesses to 13. Also looking forward to reading with shadow panel friends again this year.

@nonsuchbook.bsky.social hi Frances

Twenty mins left

Going very slow today on the countdown to the @thebookerprizes.com longlist

Just finished this in time for the Booker international longlist later hopefully have an eligible book on my tbr when longlist comes out at two today @thebookerprizes.com

Right now have a book or can get a book from Every country in Africa so now need to look at the rest of the world when a few more African countries crossed off

Liking this tale of a girl growing up with a drunkard father then meeting the wrong man at school a banned Swahili classic from Tanzania

Five by five listening

Very sad news. “Roads to Santiago” alone is an astonishing work. And his fiction perfectly captured the sad absurdity of the bourgeois male lost to romanticism. He will be much missed. “Memory is a dog. It lies wherever it wishes.”

winstonsdad.blog/2011/06/28/c... sad news of the passing of Cees Nooteboom the greatest Dutch writer of his generation he gave an interview to the blog 15 years ago

Just listening to this the first of the monthly CDs from uncut magazine 27 years ago this month

Some of the books I got At Oxfam matlock today

I'm also reading Alia Gorbunova's collection of flash fiction, (Th)ings and (Th)oughts (trs. Elina Alter). This is just delightful. I dip into it whenever I need a little pick me up or diversion.

I've just started Salvador Elizondo's 'Farabeuf, or the Chronicle of an Instant' (trs. John Incledon). I'm reading it because it is referenced both explicitly (in an epigram) and obliquely throughout Ave Barrera's superb 2019 novel, Restauración, one of the best books I read in 2025.

For @stujallen.bsky.social's Hungarian Literature Month. George Konrad's The Case Worker (translated by Paul Aston), possibly the most depressing novel I have ever read: 1streading.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/t...

On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland

Morning Stu, I am most of the way through The Skin by Curzio Malaparte, translated by David Moore.

Reading Tangerinn by #EmanuelaAnechoum translated by Lucy Rand. Interesting account of voming to terms with the effect of living outside one's home and culture, understanding the inner frustrations of not belonging or making peace with being an "other".