Tag Archives: romance

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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Love Virtually: an epistolary novel for the 21st century

Posted on February 11, 2014 by forwardtranslations

Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer, translated by Jamie Bulloch and Katharina Bielenberg (MacLehose Press, 2012) is another book I’d been really keen to read for ages, and is the sort of thing I want to see more of in translation: … Continue reading →

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V is for Van Lieshout

Posted on May 24, 2012 by forwardtranslations

Ted van Lieshout Ted van Lieshout is an award-winning Dutch poet, author and illustrator, well-known for pushing the boundaries when writing for children and young adults. His book Brothers, translated by Lance Salway and published in 2001 by Harper Collins, … Continue reading →

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Fretting About Georgette Heyer

Posted on March 19, 2012 by forwardtranslations

I’ve always loved Georgette Heyer’s regency novels, since my mum introduced me to them in my teens. They’re light, frivolous and romantic – the ultimate escapism – and also impeccably researched with true attention to detail in everything from battles, … Continue reading →

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