I’m going to be leading a workshop in literary translation from Arabic to English on 21 Feb as part of Manchester…
PEN Translates grant for A History of the World With the Women Put Back In It
The news is nearly a month old now but I’m still thrilled that the book I’m working hard on right…
Books I’m working on – for publication in 2019
It seems that at some point in the last few months I started saying ‘yes’ to all the projects I…
THE RAVEN’S CHILDREN by Yulia Yakovleva
Leningrad, 1938. When Shura and Tanya’s parents and little brother suddenly disappear in the middle of the night, it’s…
Apple Cake and Baklava
Title: Apple Cake and Baklava Author: Kathrin Rohmann Illustrator: Franziska Harvey My English translation published by: Darf Publishers 2018 Aimed…
The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature’s Secret Signs
The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature’s secret signs…
What I translated in 2017… and what’s out in 2018
This year has been an extremely busy one with some very enjoyable and satisfying books to translate. I’ve fulfilled a…
Banthology: Stories from Unwanted Nations
This urgent and timely collection brings together seven specially commissioned stories from the so-called ‘banned nations’: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria,…
A Crime in Ramallah, Abbad Yahya
The Words without Borders July 2017 issue “Divided Countries” includes an excerpt I’ve translated of A Crime in Ramallah by…
Farewell to the Horse: The Final Century of Our Relationship
*** BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week from 29 May! *** *** Sunday Times History book of the year 2017 ***…
