The Bulgarian for ‘I Love You’ ✍️
A meditation on death, loss and legacy, Martina Mustafova's The Bulgarian for ‘I Love You’ is an exquisitely nuanced essay that brings together the death of her father from Covid-19, and the birth of her first daughter.
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A place surrounded by green trees and pink flowers.
Taiwan lushness 😍
#booksky #balkans #nonfiction #covid #mother
Thank you, Lynn! It's really moving. Hilda is such a fantastic writer.
So true. It's just so beautiful ❤️
Our co-director Dr Hannah Stevens spoke to Joanna Lee & Serene Lin at Talent Taiwan about creative life in Taiwan and the opportunities the Taiwan Gold Card has enabled her to pursue as a writer, publisher and creative events producer 👇
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#Taiwan #Scotland #writer
Hilda Hoy's MOTHER TONGUE ✍
A meditation on language, culture, and identity.
“When I speak Mandarin with my mother, I am reminded of the distance that separates us—of my foreignness from the person who made me.”
This is such a gorgeous, moving story ❤️
#Booksky #Balkans #nonfiction #womenwhowrite
The Bulgarian for ‘I Love You’ ✍️
A meditation on death, loss and legacy, Martina Mustafova's The Bulgarian for ‘I Love You’ is an exquisitely nuanced essay that brings together the death of her father from Covid-19, and the birth of her first daughter.
books.windandbones.com/product/bulg...
Our co-director Dr Hannah Stevens spoke to Joanna Lee & Serene Lin at Talent Taiwan about creative life in Taiwan and the opportunities the Taiwan Gold Card has enabled her to pursue as a writer, publisher and creative events producer 👇
talent.nat.gov.tw/en/made-it-i...
#Taiwan #Scotland #writer
Hannah Stevens
Made it in Taiwan tagline.
"Hannah’s own journey reflects how Taiwan can be a place where creative lives are not only possible, but sustainable."
A pleasure to speak to Joanna Lee & Serene Lin about creative life in Taiwan and the opportunities the Taiwan Gold Card has enabled me to pursue.
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Writer Hilda Hoy
On 1st March 2026, over at Wind&Bones Books - the independent publisher I co-direct - we were delighted to publish Mother Tongue by Hilda Hoy.
I met Hilda after we'd both completed writing residencies at the Taiwan Literature Base in Taipei, Taiwan back in 2025.
We work around the globe on projects exploring the meeting-places between writing, creative thinking, and social change. Got an idea for collaboration? Then get in touch!
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Small Languages, Big Stories 🤓👇
Read our essay on Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic over on Glossika here:
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If you haven't read it yet.. what are you waiting for?!
Wind&Bones is an independent publisher. We also run projects exploring writing, storytelling and philosophy for social change. Based between Scotland and Taiwan.
We loved our recent visit to this bookshop 😍
#writing #inspiration #taiwan #books
Wind&Bones Books is a publishing house based between Scotland and Taiwan. We publish books we care about, including fiction, translation, philosophy and curious hybrid works.
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We work around the globe on projects exploring the meeting-places between writing, creative thinking, and social change. Got an idea for collaboration? Then get in touch!
www.windandbones.com/projects/
Wind&Bones is an independent publisher. We also run projects exploring writing, storytelling and philosophy for social change. Based between Scotland and Taiwan.
Here are a few photos from Pingtung County, Taiwan in case anyone needs a little writing inspiration.
#writing #inspiration #taiwan
Mother Tongue by Hilda Hoy book cover.
We are thrilled to announce Hilda Hoy's MOTHER TONGUE is coming 1st March 2026 from Wind&Bones Books.
A meditation on language, culture, and identity, in paperback and EPUB. With a foreword by Jenna Tang.
Wind&Bones Books is a publishing house based between Scotland and Taiwan. We publish books we care about, including fiction, translation, philosophy and curious hybrid works.
books.windandbones.com/products
Pre-order before 1st March using the code MOTHERTONGUE at the checkout to get your copy for £6.50. Worldwide shipping.
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Writer Hilda Hoy.
Hilda Hoy (金邦琳) is a Taiwanese Canadian writer, editor, and translator based in Berlin. In addition to working as a reporter for the Toronto Star and the Prague Post, she has published narrative non-fiction in Roads & Kingdoms, Slate, BBC Travel, and Narratively.
A woman in a garden.
A tender exploration of grief and reconnection, of belonging and self, Mother Tongue is the story of a journey to locate one’s voice between hybrid places.
Black and white family portrait.
“When I speak Mandarin with my mother, I am reminded of the distance that separates us—of my foreignness from the person who made me.”
In Mother Tongue, Hilda Hoy explores the manifold capacities of language: to shape one’s sense of self, to bring together, to hold apart.
Mother Tongue by Hilda Hoy book cover.
We are thrilled to announce Hilda Hoy's MOTHER TONGUE is coming 1st March 2026 from Wind&Bones Books.
A meditation on language, culture, and identity, in paperback and EPUB. With a foreword by Jenna Tang.
Imagine when the Firth of Forth—the estuary at the heart of Scotland—is all glacier, the country around it frozen solid. Imagine, as the ice melts, the shores gradually repopulated...
Glacier is available as a beautiful PDF digital download for just £3.50 from 👉books.windandbones .com ✍
Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese and Gaelic
*Tuesday 24th February* at 1pm
50 George Square, Edinburgh
Join Elissa Hunter-Dorans and the Taiwanese writers, who will be joining remotely!
Readings and discussion in Gaelic, Taiwanese and English, all are very welcome.
Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese and Gaelic
*Dimàirt 24 Gearran* aig 1f
50 Ceàrnag Sheòrais, Dùn Èideann
Còmhla ri Elissa Hunter-Dorans, agus na sgrìobhadairean bho Thàidh-Bhàn a-tighinn a-steach air-loidhne!
The Bulgarian for ‘I Love You’, by Martina Mustafova 👇
A meditation on death, loss and legacy. An exquisitely nuanced essay that brings together the death of her father from Covid-19, and the birth of her first daughter.
Download your digital copy for just £3.50 👉️ books.windandbones.com
