Category Archives: Books

The Mouse that Roared (in Different Dialects)

Posted on April 2, 2020 by forwardtranslations

To mark the publication of The Train Mouse, here’s a slightly edited version of an article I wrote for the ITI Bulletin, which first appeared in their January-February edition (please consider buying it from an independent bookshop in these challenging … Continue reading →

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September is World Kid Lit Month

Posted on September 1, 2019 by forwardtranslations

Following on from August as Women in Translation Month comes September, now World Kid Lit Month, so here again is a list of 10 recommendations from me. I thought this list would be easy to write as I’ve written a … Continue reading →

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Women in Translation Month 2019: 10 Books

Posted on August 4, 2019 by forwardtranslations

Looking back through my blog for this, I see that Women in Translation Month is one thing that has prompted a regular post (once a year is regular!) in recent years. This year, it seems to have really taken off … Continue reading →

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February Reads

Posted on March 6, 2019 by forwardtranslations

So I didn’t read as much as I’d have liked in February, but there were some exciting things all the same. I got to read Simone Buchholz’s Mexikoring, on which more later… Watch this space! Likewise, Zugmaus by Uwe Timm, illustrated by … Continue reading →

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January 2019 Reads

Posted on February 3, 2019 by forwardtranslations

I don’t know quite how it got to be 2019 when I wasn’t looking, and I don’t seem to manage regularly reviews any more, but I’m hopeful that semi-regularly round-ups of what I’ve been reading lately might be more doable… … Continue reading →

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Attend by West Camel

Posted on November 9, 2018 by forwardtranslations

First of all, full disclosure: West Camel is the editor of my translations of Beton Rouge and Blue Night at Orenda Books, who also publish Attend, and I was sent a PDF proof copy of by the publisher Karen a for review. … Continue reading →

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5 Questions: Recommended German Books and The Freer Use of ‘Scheiße’

Posted on September 9, 2018 by forwardtranslations

Rachel Ward of Forward Translations (forwardtranslations.co.uk) is the translator of several books for young readers as well as the original translated kidlit listicle-maker over at her blog, “A Discount Ticket to Everywhere.” She translates from the German and answered 5 questions about…

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#WITMonth: Soft in the Head by Marie-Sabine Roger

Posted on August 13, 2018 by forwardtranslations

August is Women in Translation Month, the reasons for which are discussed by Katy Derbyshire here on the Freeword Centre site, and elsewhere. So it is a fitting moment to write about Marie-Sabine Roger‘s joyful novel Soft in the Head, … Continue reading →

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Quick Curtain by Alan Melville

Posted on August 9, 2018 by forwardtranslations

After Death on the Cherwell, I have checked out a few more of the British Library’s Crime Classics series and Alan Melville‘s books really stand out among the bunch for the quality of their writing. Melville wrote a few crime … Continue reading →

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Hotel Alpha by Mark Watson

Posted on July 10, 2018 by forwardtranslations

I was fortunate enough to win a signed proof copy of Mark Watson’s novel Hotel Alpha just before it was published by Picador in 2014. For one reason or another, the book languished on a TBR pile (although my husband … Continue reading →

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