Tag Archives: fiction

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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On the Improbability of Butterflies

Posted on February 6, 2018 by forwardtranslations

I don’t know whether the similarities between Hanni Münzer’s Solange es Schmetterlinge gibt and Hannah Rothschild’s The Improbability of Love (Bloomsbury, 2015) would have struck me so clearly if I hadn’t read them one after the other. Both feature a … Continue reading →

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Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Posted on January 3, 2018 by forwardtranslations

So last year was weird. Professionally exciting, but politically deeply weird and scary. As a result, my reading tended towards the funny and the familiar. Good for my mental health, but not so interesting to blog about. As for what … Continue reading →

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One Hundred Shadows – Women in Translation Month

Posted on August 5, 2016 by forwardtranslations

During the BCLT summer school, Deborah Smith (winner of the Man Booker International, publisher at Tilted Axis Press and all-round good egg) was tutoring the Korean group, and also launching her second book, One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun. Translated … Continue reading →

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Post-Referendum Reading – Vigilante

Posted on August 3, 2016 by forwardtranslations

I haven’t been reading much lately, or it’s been taking me much longer to get through books than usual. There are all sorts of reasons for this, to do with family life, too much time on social media or playing … Continue reading →

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BCLT Summer School

Posted on July 30, 2016 by forwardtranslations

I had wanted to do the BCLT Summer School for years, and particularly since gatecrashing the lovely German group at the Millennium Library in Norwich way back in 2012, and again in 2013, and hearing what fun they were having. … Continue reading →

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Tregian’s Ground

Posted on January 21, 2016 by forwardtranslations

I have just got to the end of Tregian’s Ground by Anne Cuneo, tr. Roland Glasser and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (And Other Stories, 2015). I had been wanting to read this since I first heard that And Other Stories were … Continue reading →

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Miss Queenie Hennessey and Mr Harold Fry

Posted on October 21, 2015 by forwardtranslations

I finished reading Rachel Joyce’s The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey (Transworld, 2014) a little while ago. There haven’t been as many book reviews on here as I’d like lately, because of the summer holidays, and trying to move … Continue reading →

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The Bride of Amman – Q&A with Translator Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Posted on June 30, 2015 by forwardtranslations

Following my review of Fadi Zaghmout’s The Bride of Amman, I took the chance to catch up with translator Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp for a chat about translating the book. How did you get involved with the project? Was it something … Continue reading →

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The Bride of Amman

Posted on June 30, 2015 by forwardtranslations

I have heard a lot about The Bride of Amman as a work in progress from my translator friend Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, so I was very pleased to be offered an ebook copy for review by Hong Kong based publisher … Continue reading →

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