Tomorrow, kids!

Our summer sale is on. 40% off all our published physical and e-books until the end of our month. Head to vq-books.eu to order.

Our 2025 book is printed and ready to pre-order! It's an intense reflection on violence from systemic to domestic, written in chapter-long sentences, by the Dublin Literary Award-shortlisted pairing of Ivana Sajko and Mima Simić.
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Hello! We took a little break but we're BACK IN ACTION! In case you don't know us, we publish remarkable writing from Germany, in English. You can buy our books in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
We practise #SlowPublishing, bringing out one book a year. Next one in October!

A new book review of Irina Liebmann's untranslated Berliner Mietshaus, up on our Love German Books blog – a unique and revealing monument to real lives in East Berlin: vq-books.eu/irina-liebma...

More reading highlights from translators on our #LoveGermanBooks blog, this time from Alexandra Roesch: vq-books.eu/alexandra-ro...

After a veritable orgy of doing nothing much over the holidays, we're back with someone else's hard work: @dances-with-voles.bsky.social on our blog: vq-books.eu/ruth-martins...

Translator Tess Lewis gives us her top three German books from 2023: vq-books.eu/tess-lewiss-...

A sneak preview of our 2024 book in this @newgermanbooks.bsky.social interview with its translator, Priscilla Layne:
www.new-books-in-german.com/interview-wi...

I watched a seminar on copywriting and SEO and between flinching, I thought: OK, what "content" could I "produce" to "attack my target audience's pain points". This is the best I could do, sorry:
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Our friend Helen MacCormac wrote for our Love German Books blog, about the debut novelist Caroline Wahl at Literaturhaus Kassel.
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We're really pleased to have another guest post on our blog, this time Sophie Lau on bringing German poetry to UK schools.
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We'd like you to buy our books for your loved ones this season. So we took some photos of them against a Christmassy backdrop in an effort to persuade you, and some more photos of Christmassy things to go with them.
Here's the Dublin Prize-shortlisted LOVE NOVEL.
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A shiny new Love German Books blog post, catching you up on autumn book awards: to Tonio Schachinger, Clemens J. Setz, Lutz Seiler – but also some women writers.
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A new review up on our blog, of Sharon Dodua Otoo's riff on Heinrich Böll: vq-books.eu/heinrich-bol...
If you fancy reviewing German books in English or other old-fashioned blogging fun, let us know.

Hello there! We've joined Bluesky to celebrate our new blog, which you'll find on our website under the familiar tag of Love German Books:
vq-books.eu/blog/