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St. Andrew's Day 2020

My St. Andrew's Day recommendation: Pine by Francine Toon

Nov 29, 2020

Review: The First Woman

Review of The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.

Oct 1, 2020

#WITMonth 2020

My #WITMonth 2020 recommendations.

Aug 10, 2020

Review: Many People Die Like You

Review of 'Many People Die Like You' by Lina Wolff (tr. Saskia Vogel).

Aug 3, 2020

Review: Resist

History-into-fiction. Stories of uprising, protest and resistance from across British history.

May 21, 2020

Confinement Travel Agency: Part 3

Part 3 of 3 in this series. Stay at home, travel by book.

Apr 21, 2020

Confinement Travel Agency: Part 2

Part 2 of 3 in this series. Physical confinement can't stop us from travelling by book.

Apr 12, 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...

Apr 6, 2020

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.

Nov 14, 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.

Sep 30, 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...

Aug 1, 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...

Apr 23, 2019

Book Launch: A Inglesa e o Marialva by Clara Macedo Cabral

Last night I had the pleasure of being at the Portuguese Ambassador’s Residence in London for the launch of Clara Macedo Cabral’s novel A...

Mar 15, 2019

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...

Jun 29, 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 17, 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;...

May 9, 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...

Apr 22, 2017

A View from the Book

Beyond the Lines