My dear friend can't make this so I have a spare ticket. DM me if you want it for free!

Online screening: LUX and LUX Scotland co-host Jumana Manna’s ​‘Foragers’ (2022). ​ Available to view on the LUX website until 26 June. WATCH: lux.org.uk/event/foragers… #JumanaManna

Anyone got a copy if Monica Heisey's really good, actually I could borrow?

‘Purity seems to enjoy exploring the fissures which form between lines of social class ... At their most unsettling, these stories ... approach the alluring psychodramas of Dennis Cooper.’ Andrzej Tichý's Purity (tr. smallnicky) reviewed for Buzz Magazine buzzmag.co.uk/purity-andrzej…

Anyone got a copy of Alice B Toklas's Cook Book? I need to check something

This week’s column, I’m afraid, is about Fossil Free Books irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

This was a truly wonderful evening. Beautiful, powerful readings, so much love and joy. The poems are extraordinary and everyone should read them. Gboyega Odubanjo's Adam is out today. Run don't walk to your local bookshop

Such a thoughtful review that really does justice to the depth and skill of Andrzej Tichý's stories. Thank you Bryan Karetnyk

👋Very excited to be joining English PEN as their new Translation Advisory Co-chair. If you have ideas on how we can further improve the Translation and International Programme, please get in touch!

My PELTA colleagues and I are fundraising to support Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. Recent floods continue to affect over 90% of the state (an area equivalent to the UK), impacting close to 2.4 million people. 🧵 🪡

Join us for this!

Andrzej Tichý, the International The Booker Prizes-longlisted author of Wretchedness and Purity (both translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley), will be in the UK from this Sunday for events in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Sheffield and London. 💫 Join us! andotherstories.org/events/

Any Alice Munro experts out there? Trying to find the original text of a quote I only have in Swedish.

Tonight! Join us!

Love this concept of the translator's 'personal chest of words'. I think about this so much - the choices I make as an individual translator and why. Thanks Jen Calleja for your sage words! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

Donate now to provide our Gazan team of translators with the resources they need in order to support upwards of 200 people in Gaza: respondcrisistranslation.org/en/donate

Labour Immigration Minister has said nine deportation flights had taken off over the last 6 weeks since Labour won the election, including one carrying more than 200 people. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Feels like a critical time to be having these kind of cross-sector conversations. Come join us and ask us difficult questions!