The books waiting for me in Scotland this year… @cdrose.bsky.social @jencalleja.bsky.social

The residents of the building next to ours turn it into a giant advent calendar each year and I think it’s just lovely. 🎄

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.

Sprained my wrist *washing my hair*. Won't be doing that again in a hurry...

Tartan Army reduced to platoon.

Terrifying story. This detail in particular raises so many questions... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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...

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.

Happy publication day to my comrade in arms & minorlits sidekick, the one & only @tobiasvryan.bsky.social order GLANTZ now‼️ 👉 www.lulu.com/shop/tobias-...

clients resorting to sending me distorted, typewritten texts to ensure they're getting the genuine human translator treatment... #amtranslating #xl8

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…

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...

4-2! TOTAL SCENES!

Wow! ⚽ SCO-DEN

Translated by yours truly ⚽🏃

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!

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: charcopress.com/bookstore/20...

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. charcopress.com/bookstore/20...

My artworks, like my thoughts, have become overgrown

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-...

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.)

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: charcopress.com/bookstore/an...

early galleys of the collaborative dystopian utopian puerto rican speculative fiction novel of your dreams (with a cat historian) are here

Not gonna make it to Whitby www.ticketswap.com/listing/tomo...

Awfully tempted to leave this typo in… 😱♥️ #amediting

"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... @charcopress.com

Look what was waiting for me in Scotland… @alinaetc.bsky.social

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...

"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...

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.

‘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...

Wise words...

"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." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘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...

interesting verb

“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 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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...

“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...

“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...

A quick hi from Renato Cisneros, author of THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING (tr. Fionn Petch), landing NEXT TUESDAY! Get your copy now. charcopress.com/bookstore/th...

THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING by Renato Cisneros (trans. @elusiveword.bsky.social) is "a novel of extraordinary complexity, with dazzling prose, where the characters encounter history, the past and themselves." - El Mundo Out 24th June! charcopress.com/bookstore/th...

We have some great Father’s Day gift options! Available at your lovely local bookshop, or direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore

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.)

Yet I'm constantly being told Israel is a land of free speech and democracy www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Max Porter with such a tremendous speech here www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc80...

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.

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.

mysterious note to self. nope, no idea.