I’ve had a few lovely mini-breaks already this summer in Norfolk, Suffolk and the Lake District, but now it’s time to get my head down as, sadly, and perhaps unsurprisingly, I pretty much failed in my plan to have the summer off with my boys. It seemed that at some point in the last year I started saying yes to all the projects I was … Continue reading Books I’m working on – for publication in 2019
Title: Apple Cake and Baklava Author: Kathrin Rohmann Illustrator: Franziska Harvey My English translation published by: Darf Publishers 2018 Original title (German): Apfelkuchen und Baklava (Bastei Luebbe) Aimed at readers aged 8-12 Reviews “Ahead of World Refugee Day, a book for middle schoolers, Apple Cake and Baklava, by Kathrin Rohmann, translated from the German by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, is just out. It’s a lovely story … Continue reading Apple Cake and Baklava
Apple Cake and Baklava, by Kathrin Rohmann, is a novel for late primary kids and early secondary, dealing with asylum, how it feels to be a refugee, parallels between WWII and Syria, grandmas, recipes, a lost walnut that means the world and a budding friendship between Max and Leila. I love this book and can’t wait to see it in UK schools and libraries from … Continue reading Apple Cake and Baklava
He must hunt her down. Kill her. Destroy her . . . In her very first case, criminal psychologist Lena Peters is confronted with a killer on a murderous vendetta. And though she is unaware, Lena will play a prominent role in his deadly mission. For now she is the hunter, but soon she will become the hunted. THE CHILLING FIRST NOVEL IN THE LENA PETERS … Continue reading Sacrifice – a German crime thriller
Title: The Thankless Stranger (Die Undankbare Fremde) Author: Irena Brežná Translator of sample: Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (available as PDF on request) Translation commissioned by: New Books in German, 2012 The background I was accepted to join the Emerging Translators’ scheme, a great initiative run by New Books in German, which involves translating an extract of a novel and the opportunity to discuss my work and … Continue reading Irena Brežná, The Thankless Stranger
