Category: Books

This book was given to me by the Cameroonian writer Ernis, who I was lucky to meet in Assam last…

I heard about this title from María Reimóndez, a brilliant Galician writer, translator, interpreter, academic and feminist campaigner who I…

Last week, I got to chair my dream literary festival event panel. It featured Togolese explorer Tété-Michel Kpomassie (my Togolese…

I love small presses. They are the heroes of the international-literature world, taking risks and bringing into Englishes stories that…

This was a recommendation from Suroor Alikhan, who kindly invited me to be part of the Hyderabad Literature Festival Online…

Last weekend, I had the privilege of being part of the line-up at Dublin Book Festival, an annual celebration of…

A few weeks ago, I found myself having lunch next to the Belgian author David Van Reybrouck. We were in…

Some years ago, my father-in-law gave me a secondhand boxset of facsimile editions of the first ten Penguins, released in…

This #WITMonth, it was the translator who attracted me to my featured title. I often find this is the case:…

A new book? I hear you cry. Yes! And it’s one that you’ve helped me write. Relearning to Read: Adventures…