About to start this and expecting it to be a memorable read of 2025. I had difficulty getting my friend to lend it me, it seems to incite attachment issues. The Correspondent by #VirginiaEvans who studied philosophy in Ireland & was tutored by Claire Keegan & Kevin Power. #epistolary #rainysunday

'#Autumn light' by contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

Catch up reviews I read The Trees by #PercivalEverett in Oct to get me out of a reading rut, and it worked. I went in blind without reading the blurb just to add another layer of surprise. Everett is a reliable good read, never predictable, always intriguing. clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/16/t...

I haven't read her novels, but I was intrigued to read this fragmented memoir by #MiriamToews drawing on the life experiences that inspired her novels A Truce That Is Not Peace in journal form, it explores the writing life, family tragedy & day to day obsessions clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/15/a...

I haven't read her novels, but I was intrigued to read this fragmented memoir by #MiriamToews drawing on the life experiences that inspired her novels A Truce That Is Not Peace in journal form, it explores the writing life, family tragedy & day to day obsessions clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/15/a...

#LilianaCorobca & #MonicaCure Too Great a Sky "a harrowing deportation by train from Bucovina, Romania to the steppes of Kazakhstan; a girl & a people forced to find their way amid unspeakable conditions & political change" Shortlist @womenintranslation.bsky.social share.google/2g0hxQIbXWP6...

Shortlist Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social And The Walls Became the World All Around by #JohannaEkstrom tr. #SigridRausing A series of handwritten notebooks detailing Ekstrom’s impressions, memories & dreams, as life's clock ticks ominously. wp.me/prWQn-8yn

Our 2026 Bundle lineup. X IS WHERE I AM by acclaimed Spanish poet Sara Torres (tr. Maureen Shaughnessy). A searching, buoyant novel about queer love, mothers and daughters. Bold. Lyrical. Unforgettable. Subscribe now: charcopress.com/bookstore/20...

Tracey Tawhiao, Māori artist, writer and poet who is part of the Māori art revival movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand #womensart

'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian painter from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt

Round up + summaries of the 6 titles that made the Warwick Prize shortlist for Women in Translation Titles from Sweden, Haiti, France, Hungary, Romania & South Korea, including biographical notebooks, historical fiction, poetry & an art-novel. #worldliterature clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/13/w...

Round up + summaries of the 6 titles that made the Warwick Prize shortlist for Women in Translation Titles from Sweden, Haiti, France, Hungary, Romania & South Korea, including biographical notebooks, historical fiction, poetry & an art-novel. #worldliterature clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/13/w...

Shortlist Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social And The Walls Became the World All Around by #JohannaEkstrom tr. #SigridRausing A series of handwritten notebooks detailing Ekstrom’s impressions, memories & dreams, as life's clock ticks ominously. wp.me/prWQn-8yn

#LilianaCorobca & #MonicaCure Too Great a Sky "a harrowing deportation by train from Bucovina, Romania to the steppes of Kazakhstan; a girl & a people forced to find their way amid unspeakable conditions & political change" Shortlist @womenintranslation.bsky.social share.google/2g0hxQIbXWP6...

A conversation with M. A. Salvodon, translator of Désirée Congo by #EvelyneTrouillot Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 @womenintranslation.bsky.social "a glimpse into the writer's mind, their book's main lessons, & what’s next for them" share.google/YdH8xYzGnEBy...

A little insight into Francis Bacon's Nanny by #MaylisBesserie reviewed here in French. Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025. @womenintranslation.bsky.social #art #FrancisBacon #Ireland #20thcentury In English, translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin. wp.me/p9lxve-2AT

Miu Miu's literary club to be held in Shanghai will read Eileen Chang. This is a good selection.

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v

"a quiet novel of beauty focused on character, suffused with a sense of place, set in the countryside & Zanzibar’s old town. Gurnah makes mild commentary on the destructive influence of tourism & white savourism on Tanzanian & Zanzibari life & culture.." @hararereview.bsky.social wp.me/pfI155-169

With the winner announced Monday 10 Nov, I gather thoughts on Flashlight by #SusanChoi An eye-opening, consciousness raising novel of cross cultural marriage, complex identity, ambiguous nationality and those who take advantage of one to educate the other. 📚💙 clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/08/f...

Finished this incredible novel. At times it was like reading 2 different books, the 1st half was multicultural domestic fiction, while the 2nd half was suspenseful, true crime, as the characters diverged into separate timelines. Not surprised to find a bibliography at the end. Loved it!

My new blog post on one of the best books I've read this year - INDEPENDENT PEOPLE by Haldór Laxness. Translated from the Icelandic by J.A. Thompson. 🐑❄️👻 readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/i...

Artist Helen Ahpornsiri creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flowers and leaves. #WomensArt #Autumn #Fall

Great review here of Djinns by #FatmaAydemir "I was struck by how powerfully the novel was capturing the inner struggles of Kurdish-Turkish immigrant who was at the end of his migration journey in Germany towards permanent return to his home country in Turkey." nfaydh.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

14 titles have been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 chosen from 145 entries in 34 languages. A mix of genres on the list, 10 languages, 2 Nobel Prize winners, poetry, fiction, biography, short stories. Winner announced 27 November clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/04/w...

Check out my blog post for the list of all 14 books alongside brief summary descriptions of each title, the language it has been translated from and the country the author represents. #womenintranslation #warwickprize2025 @womenintranslation.bsky.social 💙📚

Great review here of Djinns by #FatmaAydemir "I was struck by how powerfully the novel was capturing the inner struggles of Kurdish-Turkish immigrant who was at the end of his migration journey in Germany towards permanent return to his home country in Turkey." nfaydh.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

14 titles have been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 chosen from 145 entries in 34 languages. A mix of genres on the list, 10 languages, 2 Nobel Prize winners, poetry, fiction, biography, short stories. Winner announced 27 November clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/04/w...

With the #bookerprize winner announcement only a week away on Nov 10, I take another look at the six novels on the shortlist and decide to read two of them. Any favourites to win? Seems like very mixed opinions out there, no clear winner. clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/03/b...

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia. tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9

With the #bookerprize winner announcement only a week away on Nov 10, I take another look at the six novels on the shortlist and decide to read two of them. Any favourites to win? Seems like very mixed opinions out there, no clear winner. clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/03/b...

This wkd I'm finishing Flashlight by #SusanChoi I'm enjoying the way the characters were initially in proximity and now live apart, rarely interacting, yet remain intertwined. The cross cultural family dynamic and the complexity of each character's past contributing to their separation.

Slow reading Cemetery Journeys of #MarianaEnriquez this mth was mesmerising. Riveting essays, a memoir-like travel diary + history via 21 cemeteries on 4 continents, recalling the past & learning cultural inclinations. Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave #RIPxx 🪦 clairemcalpine.com/2025/10/31/s...

That's my weekend reading sorted. Three authors I've read previously & loved. I plan to read these together, their novels on motherhood & loss, from 3 different cultural perspectives. The Mother #yvvetteedwards (UK) Mother to Mother #sindiwemagona (Sth Africa) The Mothers #britbennett (US)

A #BookerPrize for Children's literature 8-12yrs ‘an award that will champion future classics written for children; a social intervention designed to inspire more young people to read; & a seed from which we hope future generations of lifelong readers will grow' thebookerprizes.com/the-children...

Widowed, Ettie moves from the village to Iza's Budapest apartment; she struggles to find her place amid a modern lifestyle. Mother daughter tension; a subtly observed decline, hastened by modernity, having it all and losing purpose. Iza's Ballad by #MagdaSzabo clairemcalpine.com/2025/10/23/i...

It's Irish Book Week & today's prompt is: - a book set in Northern Ireland so I chose Factory Girls by #MichelleGallen a novel I loved as much as her debut Big Girl,Small Town. #FactoryGirls won the Comedy Women in Print Prize UK/Ireland #irishbookweek clairemcalpine.com/2023/03/01/f...

#YvvetteEdwards The Mother is so good, an astute profile of an angry, grieving mother sitting through the trial of the boy accused of murdering her son, unable to understand the behaviour of her husband or the world girls like Sweetie inhabit. It's her 2nd novel and I don't want it to end...so

Widowed, Ettie moves from the village to Iza's Budapest apartment; she struggles to find her place amid a modern lifestyle. Mother daughter tension; a subtly observed decline, hastened by modernity, having it all and losing purpose. Iza's Ballad by #MagdaSzabo clairemcalpine.com/2025/10/23/i...

#ElaineFeeney 'Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way' was an excellent absorbing read, with further depths if the reader is interested, something I discovered after I searched for the origin of the title. "Don’t tell me how to feel or how to react, let me experience my madness as I must.” #Sophocles

I'm currently reading The Mother by Yvvette Edwards I plan to read these 3 together, by authors from the UK, Sth Africa & US all of whom I have read a previous work of theirs & loved. The Mothers #YvetteEdwards Mother to Mother #SindiweMagona The Mothers #BritBennett The What Ifs of life & loss.

The compelling #truecrime story of Women of the Osage Nation in the early 20thC 4 sisters & their mother targeted for their wealth and inherited rights, the investigation that pursued the resolution through all the corruption and the wider conspiracy. #davidgrann clairemcalpine.com/2025/10/21/k...

The compelling #truecrime story of Women of the Osage Nation in the early 20thC 4 sisters & their mother targeted for their wealth and inherited rights, the investigation that pursued the resolution through all the corruption and the wider conspiracy. #davidgrann clairemcalpine.com/2025/10/21/k...

"Love FORMS IN The Human Body." #Booker longlisted #ClaireAdams novel addresses relinquishment & regret; of family coercion to save them from shame, without understanding the impact, loss & longing of the voiceless. Set in Trinidad, Venezuela & London #review clairemcalpine.com/2025/10/19/l...

"Love FORMS IN The Human Body." #Booker longlisted #ClaireAdams novel addresses relinquishment & regret; of family coercion to save them from shame, without understanding the impact, loss & longing of the voiceless. Set in Trinidad, Venezuela & London #review clairemcalpine.com/2025/10/19/l...

It’s a remarkable novel, so richly imagined. Probably my favourite by Ginzburg in a very strong field!

Riveted by this methodically researched, unravelling of the conspiracy at the core of a devastating episode of killings of innocent members of the Osage people. In 3 parts, #mollieburkhart her sisters & mother, the lawman #tomwhite & what the archives reveal. Killers of the Flower Moon #DavidGrann

My review of the excellent interlinked vignettes that pay tribute to the culture, heritage & people of Cyprus through the emblematic Ledra Palace Hotel & a vast range of beverages. My favourite 🍇 Grape Molasses: The Builder 👷‍♂️ Brandy Sour by #ConstantiaSoteriou clairemcalpine.com/2025/10/17/b...

Here’s Dahlia ‘Wizard of Oz’ creating some autumn magic in my garden with a profusion of pretty-in-pink Aster ‘Little Bella’ flowers behind. Have a wonderful Friday everyone! #FlowersOnFriday #FlowerFridayFamily