St. Andrew's Day 2020
My St. Andrew's Day recommendation: Pine by Francine Toon
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May 21, 2020
Review: Resist
History-into-fiction. Stories of uprising, protest and resistance from across British history.
Apr 21, 2020
Confinement Travel Agency: Part 3
Part 3 of 3 in this series. Stay at home, travel by book.
Apr 12, 2020
Confinement Travel Agency: Part 2
Part 2 of 3 in this series. Physical confinement can't stop us from travelling by book.
Apr 6, 2020
Confinement Travel Agency: Part 1
We may not be able to travel further than the supermarket, but we can still read books from other countries...
Mar 5, 2020
Review: Europa28
Review of Europa28 from Comma Press. 28 women writers on the future of Europe.
Nov 14, 2019
Review: The Valley at the Centre of the World by Malachy Tallack
Review of 'The Valley at the Centre of the World', the excellent debut novel from Malachy Tallack.
Sep 30, 2019
Review: A Matter of Interpretation by Elizabeth Mac Donald
The curious life of 13th century monk Michael Scot is reimagined. Much is at stake as his translations seek to recover lost knowledge.
Aug 24, 2019
Review: Las Cenizas del Comal by Francisco Martínez Criado
This remarkable and revelatory book does rather a lot in its circa 200 pages. It is the autobiographical experience of a Spaniard working...
Aug 1, 2019
My #WITMonth Recommendations
With the arrival of August comes the beginning of Women in Translation Month, dedicated to celebrating, promoting and reading women in...
Jul 24, 2019
To Singapore, with books!
Recently I was fortunate enough to be in Singapore for the third time in less than two years and on this most recent trip I decided it...
May 14, 2019
One novel, many voices: Uma Outra Voz by Gabriela Ruivo Trindade
Uma Outra Voz is a novel of many voices. Distinct, individual and standalone yet interconnected. It is inspired by a real family history...
Apr 23, 2019
Northern Ireland: the Booker and Beyond
In October of 2018, Anna Burns became the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the Man Booker Prize, with her Troubles-set novel...
Jun 29, 2017
Corbyn, Achebe and Orwell
With chants of ‘oh Jeremy Corbyn’ ringing out around Glastonbury last weekend, the formerly unpopular Labour leader is the man of the...
May 17, 2017
Athletic and the Chocolate Brownie
Following on from the previous post, in this entry I am delighted to present my own translation of an extract from the novel discussed...
May 9, 2017
Football, fiction and fame
Sport and fiction don’t always mix well. The attraction of sport is that the drama is real, truly unscripted and unpredictable;...
Apr 22, 2017
Art, literature and underrated cities
Fish and trees are alike (p7) Recently as part of a module on my masters course we were given an interesting task: we were let loose in...
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