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Paul Kaye
@paulkaye.bsky.social
Translator with the EU (into 🇬🇧 from 🇸🇰🇨🇿🇵🇱🇭🇺🇪🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦, learning 🇬🇷). Runner, climber, cyclist, cross-country skier. Ex-hack. Lancastrian, Notlobber in Brussels/London. MCIL, FRGS, BWFC.
107. Hanging On: a life in British climbing’s golden age by Martin Boysen
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Higher and higher
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
106. We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated from Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
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Nobel documents ignobility
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
105. Mountaineering & British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, by Simon Bainbridge
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The poet ascending
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
104. Summer Lightning by PG Wodehouse
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Memoir ditched easily
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
103. Moving the Needle: how an average climber can do the hardest route in the world, by Dave MacLeod
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Lessons for self
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
102. Król Warmii i Saturna by Joanna Wilengowska
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A forgotten nation
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
101. An Alphabet of Storms by Henry Normal
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Punning poetry pleases
October 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
100. Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, translated and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann
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Escaping familiar room
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
99. Geoffrey Winthrop Young: poet, mountaineer, educator by Alan Hankinson
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Challenging the establishment
October 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
98. Let’s Go Climbing by Colin Kirkus
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Patronising and sexist
September 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
97. The Zen of Climbing by Francis Sanzaro
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Could’ve subtracted more
August 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
96. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Arts, not books
August 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
95. A Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl by Audrey Salkeld
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An ambiguous legacy
August 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
‘People called Flores they go the house’?
July 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
94. Nottingham, tome 1: La Rançon du roi by Vincent Brugeas, Emmanuel Herzet, Benoît Dellac and Denis Bechu
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Bad to good
July 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
93. L’Arabe du futur, tome 2: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1984-1985), by Riad Sattouf
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Had forgotten Tintins
June 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
92. Dart by Alice Oswald
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Copious broken eddies
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
91. L’Arabe du futur, tome 1: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1978-1984), by Riad Sattouf
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Minutely observant child
June 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
90. Pamiętnik antybohatera i inne utwory by Kornel Filipowicz
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Heroically straightforward writing
June 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
89. Engines of Privilege: Britain’s private school problem, by Francis Green and David Kynaston
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Lessons learned dearly
June 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
88. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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A narrow watcher
May 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
87. The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros, adapted from Welsh by the author
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Even Snowdon deserted
May 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
86. Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs: Czechoslovakia, by Robert Birley
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Short and sweet
May 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
85. The Devil’s Wall: the Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha, by Mark Cornwall
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The other side
May 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
84. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Third time; unlucky
May 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM