“I lived a lot at night and the Moon was recurring in my life.” Watch Mariana Enriquez, recognized as one of Argentina’s best writers, describe how the Moon reminds her of her youth when she was “quite a dark gothic girl': bit.ly/2EoRUh2 Revista Anfibia Portobello Books

Convenience Store Woman Granta Books is, in the words of our colleague Lauren: 'a treasure to anyone who has ever felt a little odd! Sayaka Murata manages to balance light humour with a quiet poignancy.”

Buy it now: bit.ly/2rbGkNJ

'What can a picture like this that's lost its story tell us?' Gripped by the first pages of a book that's been on my list for months: GO WENT GONE by Jenny Erpenbeck, tr. Susan Bernofsky for Portobello Books #TranslationThurs #womenintranslation #readwomen #germanlitmonth

5 titles tr. from German on the Dublin Literary Award long-list! Congrats to:
J Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky Portobello Books; D Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin Pantheon Books; R Rothman, Shaun Whiteside Farrar,Straus&Giroux; L Seiler tesslewis Scribe UK; P Stamm, Michael Hofmann Granta Books !

Just finished: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Rather bonkers, a bit disturbing, highly recommended.

On the Slightly Foxed Podcast, our Publicity Director Steph shares her enthusiasm for the Granta Books Rose George @nhs #shareapint campaign - spotted via The Bookseller Was she tempted? ... #foxedpod

Coincidentally, this #TranslationThurs I'm halfway through yesterday's #NBAwards translated literature winner, THE LAST CHILDREN OF TOKYO (Yoko Tawada, tr. Margaret Mitsutani). Geeking out over the translator's note on 'Buying. Throwing. Drinking'... #womenintranslation

ANNOUNCEMENT!! Rose George will be speaking at our Festival of the Mind about her acclaimed #NinePintsthebook . Join us on Thurs 29/11 at 7pm. This is a free event but booking is essential: eventbrite.co.uk/e/nine-pints-w… #blood #Leeds #LL250

In honour of tonight’s Warwick Prize for #womenintranslation , a review of last year’s winner, the magnificent MEMOIRS OF A POLAR BEAR by Yoko Tawada, tr. Susan Bernofsky for Portobello Books : blogs.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwom… #WarwickPrize #GermanLitMonth

farewell portobello books, the only imprint named after a breakfast mushroom. they were always fun guys on social media

Sunday 25 November at 10.30am, Rose George will be at Birnam Arts discussing her new book Nine Pints. Come along: (£11)

'Through Keiko, Murata skilfully illuminates Japanese society’s treatment of women who refuse to conform to gendered expectations.'

@devijoshi9 discusses Sayaka Murata's 'Convenience Store Woman' for this week's special @MisogynyIsHate issue: mancunion.com/2018/11/08/mis…

The Warwick Prize for #WomeninTranslation shortlist is out!!! Feast your eyes on this symmetric list from MacLehose Press, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Portobello Books! Congrats to all shortlisted authors and translators!

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood by Rose George Rose George Granta Books #NonFictionNovember #NinePints #RoseGeorge #GrantaBooks alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/nin…

I loved this. Thank you Anne Meadows Granta Books pru rowlandson

Congratulations to Han Kang (and @londonkoreanist )and Olga Tokarczuk (and Jenny Croft) for making the Warwick Prize for #WomeninTranslation brilliant shortlist! Portobello Books Fitzcarraldo Editions @RCWLitAgency #womenintranslation

Just finished reading the first chapter of Human Acts by Han Kang. And I can't. The emotions. So heavy. It's emotionally torturing me. 😭 Why did I only start it now. It's sooo good. #CurrentlyReading