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“The Muirs gave Kafka a distinctive voice in English for half a century: fluent, formal, enigmatic and mesmeric” – but a new, award-winning study of Kafka’s translators has almost completely erased their work from literary history, says Boyd Tonkin engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
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For half a century, Edwin and Willa Muir's translations were how the Anglophone world read Kafka. A prize-winning study of his translators barely registers their contribution.
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The forgotten Scots who gave Kafka his voice
Many thanks to @roughghosts.bsky.social for drawing my attention to this, which, of course, I had to immediately get hold of as Dasa Drndic is such an extraordinary writer.
New on the blog today, I've written about ANSWER IN THE NEGATIVE by Henrietta Hamilton. A very enjoyable vintage mystery set in the world of the National Press Archives on London’s Fleet Street. Ideal fans of Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence novels! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/a...
New from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social this week, a coming-of-age story Uruguayan style - Eugenia Ladra's Bait, translated by Miriam Tobin: 1streading.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/b...
New from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social this week, a coming-of-age story Uruguayan style - Eugenia Ladra's Bait, translated by Miriam Tobin: 1streading.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/b...
‘My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.’ #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/s...
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First published in 1959 and recently reissued as part of Penguin’s Mermaid Collection, which focuses on unjustly neglected novels from the mid-to-late 20th century, Answer in the Negative is an enj…
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NO#3 in #20BooksofWinter: the oddly titledTono-Bungay by H G Wells, part of a trio of novels that explore class and emerging modernity in Edwardian England anzlitlovers.com/2026/06/14/t...
Answer in the Negative by Henrietta Hamilton
Daunt Books already has a track record in dark, Spanish-language fiction having published both Maria Bastaros’ disturbing short story collection, Hungry for What, and Elisa Levi’s novel That’s All …
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Daunt Books already has a track record in dark, Spanish-language fiction having published both Maria Bastaros’ disturbing short story collection, Hungry for What, and Elisa Levi’s novel That’s All …
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My parents always gave us books at Christmas and I was in my teens when my father gave me a set of four books comprising Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, and three books by H G Wells: his first no…
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Tono-Bungay (1908-9), by H.G. Wells
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The Nobel Prize-winning French author Annie Ernaux (neé Duchesne) is definitely an author who intrigues me. She writes, with great candour, clarity and vulnerability, about various aspects of the f…
Shame by Annie Ernaux (tr. Tanya Leslie)