Fionn Petch
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Ootlin. Scotland→Mexico City→Berlin. Translator. Senior editor @charcopress elusiveword.com
The books waiting for me in Scotland this year…
@cdrose.bsky.social
@jencalleja.bsky.social
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The residents of the building next to ours turn it into a giant advent calendar each year and I think it’s just lovely. 🎄
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Frank Wynne
7 days ago
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Lovely vignette of the German state as we left the Christmas market this evening: four Ordnungsamt guys surrounding a couple of young Roma women and methodically popping the handful of glitzy balloons they were offering for sale.
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Sprained my wrist *washing my hair*. Won't be doing that again in a hurry...
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Alec Finlay
16 days ago
Tartan Army reduced to platoon.
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Terrifying story. This detail in particular raises so many questions...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Charco Press
22 days ago
Our 2026 Bundle lineup. BURY YOUR DEAD by Ana Paula Maia (tr. Padma Viswanathan). More Maia! A brutal, stark, and haunting novella about a roadkill worker who finds the wrong kind of corpse. Subscribe now:
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
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This thread is 💯. I laughed out loud but it's an issue that really gets my (vegan) goat. Vested interests trying to tell us what words mean is the definition of fascism.
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23 days ago
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ya ya yanina
25 days ago
Happy publication day to my comrade in arms & minorlits sidekick, the one & only
@tobiasvryan.bsky.social
order GLANTZ now‼️ 👉
www.lulu.com/shop/tobias-...
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clients resorting to sending me distorted, typewritten texts to ensure they're getting the genuine human translator treatment...
#amtranslating
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24 days ago
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BookBlast Official
29 days ago
The National Telepathy Roque Larraquy Review The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, skilfully translated by Frank Wynne, is an extraordinary, disturbing, metaphoric read. A satire of scientific racism; a critique of colonialism and its mindset, the novel questions to what extent so-called…
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The National Telepathy Roque Larraquy Review
The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, skilfully translated by Frank Wynne, is an extraordinary, disturbing, metaphoric read. A satire of scientific racism; a critique of colonialism and its mindset, the novel questions to what extent so-called modern civilisation is founded on violence, racism and warping or erasing memory.
https://bookblast.org/blog/the-national-telepathy-roque-larraquy-review/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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404 Ink
about 1 month ago
ANNOUNCING: PUBLISHER NOT FOUND - our final book and the 404 Ink Bursary, coming 2026. We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
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404 Ink co-founders launch new book and industry fundraiser for small presses — 404 Ink
404 Ink to publish one final book as part of small press fundraiser, launching in 2026.
https://www.404ink.com/blog/publisher-not-found
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4-2! TOTAL SCENES!
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about 1 month ago
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Wow! ⚽ SCO-DEN
about 1 month ago
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Translated by yours truly ⚽🏃
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Andy Helliwell
about 1 month ago
A Charco Press subscription was definitely the best thing I did to treat myself this year. Consistently excellent contemporary Latin American literature arriving at random intervals through the year - a joy, and I have already signed up again!
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Charco Press
about 1 month ago
Our 2026 Bundle lineup. CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). New work from the author of Elena Knows! Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go... Subscribe now:
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Charco Press
about 1 month ago
It's here. Our 2026 Bundle. Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
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My artworks, like my thoughts, have become overgrown
8 months ago
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Happening now. Loving the insights from
@alecfinlay.bsky.social
, Patrick Eyres and Tim Richardson into the artist who has meant the most to me since I was a lad, Ian Hamilton Finlay, on his 100th birthday.
gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-...
about 2 months ago
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Charco Press
about 2 months ago
We're having an Autumn Sale! 30% off ALL print and ebook editions*, until midnight Friday 31st October (GMT). A great chance to stack up that TBR pile, or introduce friends and family to Charco!
charcopress.com/bookstore
(*Excludes preorder titles, bundles and tote bags.)
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Charco Press
2 months ago
Out today - this beautiful, thoughtful journey into the effects of guilt and trauma on the human psyche, set in post WW2 Switzerland. Haunting prose by Antônio Xerxenesky, in a superb translation by Daniel Hahn. Available now direct from us:
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Caroline Casey
2 months ago
early galleys of the collaborative dystopian utopian puerto rican speculative fiction novel of your dreams (with a cat historian) are here
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Not gonna make it to Whitby
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Tomorrow's Ghosts Festival Friday Ticket
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2 months ago
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Awfully tempted to leave this typo in… 😱♥️
#amediting
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The Skinny
3 months ago
"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon" LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
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La Lucha ed. Carolina Orloff: Book Review – The Skinny
Charco Press's latest is an incredible collection of essays destabilising traditions of Western feminism through transformative radical ideas.
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-reviews/la-lucha-ed-carolina-orloff
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Look what was waiting for me in Scotland…
@alinaetc.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Charco Press
4 months ago
Our own
@elusiveword.bsky.social
will be talking to Velia Vidal this weekend at Berlin's International Lit Festival! She will discuss her autofictional text and her work for a literary festival in Chocó, a region of tropical forests in northwestern Colombia.
literaturfestival.com/en/events/ve...
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VELIA VIDAL: Tidal Waters | international literature festival berlin
A woman named Velia writes letters about returning to her homeland, Chocó – blurring the line between author and character. Vidal writes about the impact of community, the power of storytelling, and w...
https://literaturfestival.com/en/events/velia-vidal-tidal-waters/
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Charco Press
4 months ago
"A powerful book that manages something I’ve never really read before. I was entranced,” Mark Haber. If you are lucky to be in Edinburgh, Lucía Lijtmaer will be appearing today along Monika Radojevic at the EIBF. Do you want to be entranced? Read CAUTERY.
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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Lucía Lijtmaer & Monika Radojevic: Fuelled by Rage
From Wed 20 Aug - Sharp writing and incisive perspectives are the hallmarks of Lucía Lijtmaer (Cautery) and Monika Radojevic (A Beautiful Lack of Consequence). Join them for a vital conversation about...
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/lucia-lijtmaer-monika-radojevic-fuelled-by-rage
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Cory Oldweiler
5 months ago
This novel and its translation blew my mind. My review will be out later this month (hopefully), too, but honestly don’t bother with what I have to say, just buy it.
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London Review of Books
4 months ago
‘The politics of access to Gaza has helped sustain Western complicity in the genocide, despite the steady stream of evidence produced by Palestinians at enormous risk to their own lives. What it amounts to isn’t denial so much as plausible deniability.’ From the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
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Stefan Tarnowski | Plausible Deniability
From the sieges within the siege, Palestinian journalists are smeared as terrorists and assassinated by airstrike. Even...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/august/plausible-deniability
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Wise words...
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"The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable... History will judge not just those who committed these crimes, but those who stood by and watched."
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I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard
A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/22/gaza-israel-deliberate-starvation-ceasefire-aid
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London Review of Books
6 months ago
‘Like Trudi Warner, Rev. Parfitt has been arrested for holding a sign. Can that be understood by any but the most authoritarian of rubrics as an act of terrorism?’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience, online now from the next issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n13/huw-lemmey/short-cuts
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Brían Hanrahan
6 months ago
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Charco Press
6 months ago
“Uncompromising (…). A rousing story of migration and identity.” Brilliant review of THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING by Renato Cisneros (tr. Fionn Petch) in the @IrishTimes. Thanks always to Catherine Taylor
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus
6 months ago
We can't wait to get our paws on this book by a WWB contributor author/translator duo (
@elusiveword.bsky.social
) ! Here's an excerpt from another recent collaboration published by Charco Press, YOU SHALL LEAVE YOUR LAND:
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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“This is worse than Putin’s Russia... It’s 10 years for doing what we’re doing today in Russia; it’s 14 years in the UK, because of Yvette Cooper’s outrageous betrayal of democracy, liberalism, and what is in my view a step towards fascism.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action
Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/05/palestine-action-activists-arrested-london-gandhi-statue
6 months ago
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Caution has turned to cowardice – the BBC is failing viewers with its Gaza coverage | Karishma Patel
The craven failure to broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is just the latest example of skewed journalistic values over Israel’s war, says former BBC journalist Karishma Patel
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/02/bbc-gaza-doctors-under-attack-documentary-israel-war
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus
6 months ago
“The World We Saw Burning” by Renato Cisneros (tr.
@elusiveword.bsky.social
, Charco Press) is “a fascinatingly structured novel” with insight into “borders, national identity, and the concept of ‘home.’”
bookshop.org/a/169/978191...
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Charco Press
6 months ago
A quick hi from Renato Cisneros, author of THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING (tr. Fionn Petch), landing NEXT TUESDAY! Get your copy now.
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Charco Press
7 months ago
THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING by Renato Cisneros (trans.
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Charco Press
7 months ago
We have some great Father’s Day gift options! Available at your lovely local bookshop, or direct from us:
charcopress.com/bookstore
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Leah McElrath
7 months ago
Israel bombed the home of two doctors in Gaza, killed nine of their children, and injured the father and another child. The deceased children’s names were: Yahya Rakan Raslan Jubran Eve Rivan Sideen Luqman Sidra (I’m not going to put the graphic photos or video evidence here, but I’ve seen them.)
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Yet I'm constantly being told Israel is a land of free speech and democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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Israeli opposition MP forcefully removed from podium after blasting Gaza war – video
Ayman Odeh, a member of the Arab-Jewish Hadash party, was forcefully removed from the podium in the Israeli parliament as he criticised Israel's war on Gaza and the mounting death toll
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/may/22/israeli-opposition-mp-forcefully-removed-after-blasting-gaza-war-video
7 months ago
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Martin Shaw
7 months ago
Max Porter with such a tremendous speech here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc80...
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Max Porter announces the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prize
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc80efFKK6o
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The Alasdair Gray Archive
7 months ago
Our next timeline post is number 12 - 1958 Work begins on what Alasdair would go on to describe as his ‘best mural’, designed for the Greenhead Church of Scotland Mural. During this time, he came to meet his lifelong friends Archie and Eleanor Hind who enjoyed watching him work.
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Jess Traynor
7 months ago
OK so waving a flag is terrorism but arming a terrorist colonial state currently starving thousands of children is not terrorism? Malicious distraction tactics from the UK establishment.
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mysterious note to self. nope, no idea.
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