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Mysterious masked figure Uketsu and books in a shop window

New Uketsu has landed, Strange Buildings is here

A proof copy of Rat Race by Callum McSorley

Massive thanks to @callummcsorley.bsky.social and @pushkinpress.com for sending me a proof of RAT RACE, the latest in his award-winning series of Glasgow-set crime thrillers. I dipped into it last night and it’s an absolute hoot. Out on 7th May!

A copy of the book A Last Supper of Queer Apostles

Graphic says: 2025 runners-up Gwendolyn Harper and editors John Siciliano and Rory Williamson for a translation from Spanish of A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel (Pushkin Press)

And congratulations to the runners-up:

Gwendolyn Harper and editors John Siciliano and Rory Williamson for a translation from Spanish of A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel (Pushkin Press) #TranslationPrizes

A copy of the book The Little Sparrow Murders

Graphic says 2025 runner-up Bryan Karetnyk for a translation of The Little Sparrow Murders by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Press)

And congratulations to the runner-up:

Bryan Karetnyk for a translation of The Little Sparrow Murders by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Press)

#TranslationPrizes

We're so delighted that Agnes Broomé, amazing translator of Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren, has won the Bernard Shaw Prize!

At Night All Blood is Black | The Booker Prizes Winner of the International Booker Prize 2021. A hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness, shattered by grief and the horror of war

Presenting our Monthly Spotlight pick for February: At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

🔗 Tap the link below to discover an interview, reading guide, competition and more.

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The heat is on: classic and contemporary battle it out in Heatseekers chart The Bookseller's 2025 Heatseekers Top 50 is headed up by Jacqueline Harpman’s 1995 speculative novel I Who Have Never Known Men, which experienced a BookTok boom last year, and Japanese YouTuber Ukets...

Uketsu has never been hotter www.thebookseller.com/bestsellers/... 🔥

Laurence Olivier among figures honoured by new London Blue Plaques Social reformer Gertrude Tuckwell, anti-racism activist Kamal Chunchie and writer Stefan Zweig are among the other cultural figures being honoured.

A London Blue Plaque for Stefan Zweig! www.standard.co.uk/culture/film...

Aschenbach’s Last Journey - DRB Thomas Mann’s travels, which laid the basis for the novella ‘Death in Venice’

Translator Lesley Chamberlain on Thomas Mann's Death in Venice for the Dublin Review of Books - read now drb.ie/articles/asc...

Huge congratulations to the titles that have made the shortlist for the inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize, presented in partnership with @thetls.bsky.social!

Explore the shortlist and join us for a free online event on 12 Feb to celebrate the winner: shorturl.at/9XeYf

Lesley Chamberlain on Thomas Mann | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Lesley Chamberlain on Thomas Mann today.

Calling all Thomas Mann fans! The incredible Lesley Chamberlain is speaking on Wednesday 28th January at Waterstones Hampstead about her latest stunning translations of his work www.waterstones.com/events/lesle...

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We're hiring an assistant editor/editor (parental leave fixed term contract)! We'd love to welcome you to our team, please apply 📚

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White Moss by Anna Nerkagi, translated by Irina Sadovina, is @blackwells.bsky.social's Fiction Book of the Month! A poetic and fiercely moving Indigenous novel of tradition, change, and thwarted desire - your perfect January read 🥳

So glad! We love sending them! 🙏

Thank you so much @pushkinpress.com , very yummy. We love selling your books and eating your doughnuts.

An understated yet profound portrayal of love and death Andrew Martino on Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas" as an understated yet profound portrayal of love and death

"A masterclass in the art of translation... Poignant, and at times breathtakingly honest, IN FARTHEST SEAS joins a select group of narratives that help us cope with the death of a loved one"
Quite a rich review by @andrewmartino.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com readingintranslation.com/2025/12/01/l...

The Hour of the Predator by Giuliano da Empoli is @thetimes.com's Current Affairs Book of the Year, and @theobserveruk.bsky.social's Philippe Sands recommends the 'devastatingly lucid' read - the perfect Christmas present for the politics buff in your life!

AND, Pushkin's very own Rory Williamson with editor John Siciliano and translator Gwendolyn Harper are nominated for the TA First Translation Prize for A Last Supper of Queer Apostles 🥳

Bryan Karetnyk is nominated for the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize for The Little Sparrow Murders (cont.)

@societyofauthors.bsky.social Huge congratulations to all those nominated for The Society of Authors' Translation Prizes! Translator Agnes Broomé is nominated for the Bernard Shaw Prize for Collected Works (cont.)

So pleased @ronanhession.bsky.social has included Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas in the Irish Times' Books of the Year 2025!
Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌
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The new power players running the world At the opening of The Hour of the Predator, Giuliano da Empoli describes Spain’s conquest of the Aztec empire, its doomed ruler Moctezuma II’s response (ineffective vacillation, delaying any course of...

Giuliano da Empoli's The Hour of the Predator is 'Machiavelli's The Prince for our times' according to James Ball in @thespectator1828.bsky.social! Read more: www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

Time to explore the longlist for our inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize!
Celebrating excellence in translated fiction and non-fiction, the prize is our most ambitious award yet, highlighting the power of Jewish literature to engage readers worldwide.

shorturl.at/vUltg

Uketsu’s ‘Strange Pictures’ Shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year Uketsu’s horror-mystery novel Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year.

Uketsu’s ‘Strange Pictures’ Shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year

Have you ever cried looking at a painting? Then read this book The art historian Katy Hessel on the writer who inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel and a memoir by a great American photographer

Have you ever cried looking at a painting? Then best-selling art historian Katy Hessel thinks Stefan Zweig's books are for you @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

🗞️ @thetimes.com dive deep into The Hour of the Predator with author Giuliano da Empoli:
t.co/pSgg2Bu5vQ

Opinion | Imagining What’s in Trump’s Brain Inside the minds of authoritarians.

“People like Trump and Putin are not politicians; they are artists who create alternate realities,” our columnist David Brooks writes.

And it's still getting stranger... Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Book of the Year! We're so thrilled and so grateful 🎉

'There is plenty that is irresistible about 'The Hour of the Predator'' - The Economist

🤯Holy Smokes!
I'm so lucky to have been part of bringing Uketsu's books to English reading audiences. How wonderful it is that people are enjoying them!