Category Archives: Reviews

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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#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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Apple Cake and Baklava

Posted on June 16, 2018 by forwardtranslations

I was sent a copy of Apple Cake and Baklava by Kathrin Rohmann, translated by my friend and colleague Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Darf Publishers, 2018) for review. As I read it with Son2, it seemed to make sense to share … Continue reading →

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Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay

Posted on April 2, 2018 by forwardtranslations

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society … Continue reading →

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