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Congratulations to Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq, winners of this year’s International Booker Prize. We’re hugely honoured to publish HEART LAMP. Our deepest thanks to the judges and, indeed, to all of you who have read and loved this extraordinary collection.
'You’ll just have to make do with words.
Although you’re far too small for us and them,
I wish you elephants in herds.'
A new poem by Colin Bramwell from his forthcoming collection, Fetch, in the recent issue of @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
Although you’re far too small for us and them,
I wish you elephants in herds.'
A new poem by Colin Bramwell from his forthcoming collection, Fetch, in the recent issue of @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
NS Poem: Fauna
A new poem by Colin Bramwell
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November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
'You’ll just have to make do with words.
Although you’re far too small for us and them,
I wish you elephants in herds.'
A new poem by Colin Bramwell from his forthcoming collection, Fetch, in the recent issue of @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
Although you’re far too small for us and them,
I wish you elephants in herds.'
A new poem by Colin Bramwell from his forthcoming collection, Fetch, in the recent issue of @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, recommended in the @vittles.bsky.social Christmas Gift Guide! 🥟
We're proud to be bringing this brilliant National Book Award–winning novel to readers in the UK and Europe in March next year!
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We're proud to be bringing this brilliant National Book Award–winning novel to readers in the UK and Europe in March next year!
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-ch...
Vittles Christmas Gift Guide 2025
The Bad Food Edition: over fifty silly, fun and delicious gift ideas suggested by the contributors to Vittles’ second print issue.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, recommended in the @vittles.bsky.social Christmas Gift Guide! 🥟
We're proud to be bringing this brilliant National Book Award–winning novel to readers in the UK and Europe in March next year!
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-ch...
We're proud to be bringing this brilliant National Book Award–winning novel to readers in the UK and Europe in March next year!
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-ch...
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The beautiful bleakness, no exit despair & unflinchingly direct, harsh, claustrophobic East German realities illuminated by Clemens Meyer in All the Lights make for compulsive reading. Published by @andotherstories.bsky.social
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All the Lights Clemens Meyer Review | BookBlast®
BookBlast Review by Clem Clement of the new edition out with And Other Stories of All the Lights by Clemens Meyer, translated by Katy Derbyshire. Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008
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November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The beautiful bleakness, no exit despair & unflinchingly direct, harsh, claustrophobic East German realities illuminated by Clemens Meyer in All the Lights make for compulsive reading. Published by @andotherstories.bsky.social
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bookblast.org/blog/all-the...
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Wonderful writing, full of poetry, humour and multiple beings… so enjoyed the ride. Always good when a book from @andotherstories.bsky.social drops through the letterbox and my reading world expands, this time to a Canadian First Nation take on holding together in the face of colonial destructions
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Wonderful writing, full of poetry, humour and multiple beings… so enjoyed the ride. Always good when a book from @andotherstories.bsky.social drops through the letterbox and my reading world expands, this time to a Canadian First Nation take on holding together in the face of colonial destructions
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"Unifies us across the occupied pond"
Anishinaabe author Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) gets a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review from us for NOOPIMING: THE CURE FOR WHITE LADIES, out today via @andotherstories.bsky.social
Anishinaabe author Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) gets a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review from us for NOOPIMING: THE CURE FOR WHITE LADIES, out today via @andotherstories.bsky.social
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review - The Skinny
Anishinaabe author Leanne Betasamosake Simpson articulates the enduring spirit and colonial struggles through which their characters operate.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Unifies us across the occupied pond"
Anishinaabe author Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) gets a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review from us for NOOPIMING: THE CURE FOR WHITE LADIES, out today via @andotherstories.bsky.social
Anishinaabe author Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) gets a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review from us for NOOPIMING: THE CURE FOR WHITE LADIES, out today via @andotherstories.bsky.social
Happy publication day to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. NOOPIMING: THE CURE FOR WHITE LADIES is now available across the UK and Europe.
‘So precise, so intricate, so clear and urgent’ Preti Taneja
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‘So precise, so intricate, so clear and urgent’ Preti Taneja
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November 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy publication day to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. NOOPIMING: THE CURE FOR WHITE LADIES is now available across the UK and Europe.
‘So precise, so intricate, so clear and urgent’ Preti Taneja
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‘So precise, so intricate, so clear and urgent’ Preti Taneja
www.andotherstories.org/noopiming-th...
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Last chance to get a ticket for an intimate writing workshop with 2025 International Booker Prize winner Deepa Bhasthi!
Taking place online tomorrow from 11am.
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Taking place online tomorrow from 11am.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Last chance to get a ticket for an intimate writing workshop with 2025 International Booker Prize winner Deepa Bhasthi!
Taking place online tomorrow from 11am.
buff.ly/BVaU8d2
Taking place online tomorrow from 11am.
buff.ly/BVaU8d2
Congratulations to Don Mee Choi, whose collection Mirror Nation has been shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 🎉
Together with @irishpen.bsky.social & the Estate of Seamus Heaney, we’re delighted to announce the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 shortlist. The winner will be announced on 1 December at a ceremony held at @nlireland.bsky.social.
Find out more & book now ⤵️
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Find out more & book now ⤵️
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PEN Heaney Prize 2025 shortlist - News & Events - English PEN
English PEN announces the six shortlisted titles for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025
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October 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Congratulations to Don Mee Choi, whose collection Mirror Nation has been shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 🎉
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Join us at Waterstones Hampstead as Manya Wilkinson discusses her Hawthornden Prize-winning novel LUBLIN with Keiron Pim.
Tickets now available:
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Tickets now available:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Join us at Waterstones Hampstead as Manya Wilkinson discusses her Hawthornden Prize-winning novel LUBLIN with Keiron Pim.
Tickets now available:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
Tickets now available:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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On the evening of Thursday October 23rd I’m hosting an event at Hampstead Waterstones where I’ll be interviewing Manya Wilkinson, the author of LUBLIN — one of the best novels I’ve read in a long time. Tickets available here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
An evening with Manya Wilkinson | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An evening with Manya Wilkinson today.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
On the evening of Thursday October 23rd I’m hosting an event at Hampstead Waterstones where I’ll be interviewing Manya Wilkinson, the author of LUBLIN — one of the best novels I’ve read in a long time. Tickets available here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
Publishing across the UK and Europe in 2026, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King
‘A delightfully slippery novel about how power shapes relationships’
New York Times
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‘A delightfully slippery novel about how power shapes relationships’
New York Times
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October 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Publishing across the UK and Europe in 2026, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King
‘A delightfully slippery novel about how power shapes relationships’
New York Times
www.andotherstories.org/taiwan-trave...
‘A delightfully slippery novel about how power shapes relationships’
New York Times
www.andotherstories.org/taiwan-trave...
Join us at Waterstones Hampstead as Manya Wilkinson discusses her Hawthornden Prize-winning novel LUBLIN with Keiron Pim.
Tickets now available:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
Tickets now available:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Join us at Waterstones Hampstead as Manya Wilkinson discusses her Hawthornden Prize-winning novel LUBLIN with Keiron Pim.
Tickets now available:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
Tickets now available:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
'First published in Hindi in 1984, two years before Verma’s death, and here published for the first time in the UK in Soni’s luminous translation, this haunting and haunted masterpiece resonates louder than ever in our own times'
Magadh by Shrikant Verma(tr. Rahul Soni) reviewed in @theguardian.com
Magadh by Shrikant Verma(tr. Rahul Soni) reviewed in @theguardian.com
The best recent poetry – review roundup
So Far So Good by Ursula K Le Guin; Thrums by Thomas A Clark; Sculling by Sophie Dumont; Magadh by Shrikant Verma
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October 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
'First published in Hindi in 1984, two years before Verma’s death, and here published for the first time in the UK in Soni’s luminous translation, this haunting and haunted masterpiece resonates louder than ever in our own times'
Magadh by Shrikant Verma(tr. Rahul Soni) reviewed in @theguardian.com
Magadh by Shrikant Verma(tr. Rahul Soni) reviewed in @theguardian.com
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Through the mail slot today. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Magadh by Shrikant Verma, translated from the Hindi by Rahul Soni. Both from @andotherstories.bsky.social.
October 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Through the mail slot today. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Magadh by Shrikant Verma, translated from the Hindi by Rahul Soni. Both from @andotherstories.bsky.social.
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September 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.
Some very exciting news: Deepa Bhasthi’s International Booker Prize-winning translation of Banu Mushtaq’s HEART LAMP has been chosen as a Waterstones Paperback of the Year!
www.waterstones.com/book/heart-l...
www.waterstones.com/book/heart-l...
September 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Some very exciting news: Deepa Bhasthi’s International Booker Prize-winning translation of Banu Mushtaq’s HEART LAMP has been chosen as a Waterstones Paperback of the Year!
www.waterstones.com/book/heart-l...
www.waterstones.com/book/heart-l...
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I extremely rarely recommend books but I devoured this in a single sitting, and I think that if you know any uk humaniites academics, or anyone struggling with an immigrant identity, or just love prose, you should read it.
‘Courageously speaks truth to power’
—Don Mee Choi
‘I haven’t read a more beautiful, more raging and anguished account of racism and female erasure. It's a book about survival and unbelonging’
—Neel Mukherjee
This Part Is Silent by SJ Kim is out today! ✨
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—Don Mee Choi
‘I haven’t read a more beautiful, more raging and anguished account of racism and female erasure. It's a book about survival and unbelonging’
—Neel Mukherjee
This Part Is Silent by SJ Kim is out today! ✨
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/this...
September 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I extremely rarely recommend books but I devoured this in a single sitting, and I think that if you know any uk humaniites academics, or anyone struggling with an immigrant identity, or just love prose, you should read it.
Congratulations to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, whose translation of Verdigris by Michele Mari has been shortlisted for the 2025 @littranslate.bsky.social Italian Prose in Translation Award! 🎉
🎉 ALTA is delighted to announce the 2025 shortlists for the following prizes:
🏆ALTA First Translation Prize
🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award
🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award
Congrats to all on these lists! buff.ly/tVFTq3h
🏆ALTA First Translation Prize
🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award
🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award
Congrats to all on these lists! buff.ly/tVFTq3h
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Congratulations to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, whose translation of Verdigris by Michele Mari has been shortlisted for the 2025 @littranslate.bsky.social Italian Prose in Translation Award! 🎉
In January we will publish, for the very first time outside of Australia, LANDSCAPE WITH LANDSCAPE by Gerald Murnane.
Cruelly reviewed when first published, this collection of short fiction, Murnane’s first, is now regarded as one of the author’s best works.
www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...
Cruelly reviewed when first published, this collection of short fiction, Murnane’s first, is now regarded as one of the author’s best works.
www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In January we will publish, for the very first time outside of Australia, LANDSCAPE WITH LANDSCAPE by Gerald Murnane.
Cruelly reviewed when first published, this collection of short fiction, Murnane’s first, is now regarded as one of the author’s best works.
www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...
Cruelly reviewed when first published, this collection of short fiction, Murnane’s first, is now regarded as one of the author’s best works.
www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...
We’re over the moon to announce that Manya Wilkinson has been awarded this year’s Hawthornden Prize for Literature for her novel LUBLIN.
Having previously won both the RSL Encore Award and the Wingate Prize, LUBLIN continues its prize-winning journey.
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-...
Having previously won both the RSL Encore Award and the Wingate Prize, LUBLIN continues its prize-winning journey.
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-...
September 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We’re over the moon to announce that Manya Wilkinson has been awarded this year’s Hawthornden Prize for Literature for her novel LUBLIN.
Having previously won both the RSL Encore Award and the Wingate Prize, LUBLIN continues its prize-winning journey.
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-...
Having previously won both the RSL Encore Award and the Wingate Prize, LUBLIN continues its prize-winning journey.
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-...
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The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem translated by Sinan Antoon from @andotherstories.bsky.social
Written in 2014, translated and first published 2019.
Chronology is wearing away at the element of magic-realism.
Written in 2014, translated and first published 2019.
Chronology is wearing away at the element of magic-realism.
August 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem translated by Sinan Antoon from @andotherstories.bsky.social
Written in 2014, translated and first published 2019.
Chronology is wearing away at the element of magic-realism.
Written in 2014, translated and first published 2019.
Chronology is wearing away at the element of magic-realism.
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