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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 3d

On the evening of Thursday October 23rd I’m hosting an event at Hampstead Waterstones where I’ll be interviewing Manya Wilkinson, the author of LUBLIN — one of the best novels I’ve read in a long time. Tickets available here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

An evening with Manya Wilkinson | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An evening with Manya Wilkinson today.

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · 3d

'First published in Hindi in 1984, two years before Verma’s death, and here published for the first time in the UK in Soni’s luminous translation, this haunting and haunted masterpiece resonates louder than ever in our own times'

Magadh by Shrikant Verma(tr. Rahul Soni) reviewed in @theguardian.com

The best recent poetry – review roundup

So Far So Good by Ursula K Le Guin; Thrums by Thomas A Clark; Sculling by Sophie Dumont; Magadh by Shrikant Verma

www.theguardian.com

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 5d

Through the mail slot today. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Magadh by Shrikant Verma, translated from the Hindi by Rahul Soni. Both from @andotherstories.bsky.social.

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JP @jpa6.bsky.social · 12d

Puzzling. Keep ‘em coming, @andotherstories.bsky.social
#booksky

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 16d

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · 17d

Some very exciting news: Deepa Bhasthi’s International Booker Prize-winning translation of Banu Mushtaq’s HEART LAMP has been chosen as a Waterstones Paperback of the Year!

www.waterstones.com/book/heart-l...

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 24d

I extremely rarely recommend books but I devoured this in a single sitting, and I think that if you know any uk humaniites academics, or anyone struggling with an immigrant identity, or just love prose, you should read it.

And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · May 9

‘Courageously speaks truth to power’
—Don Mee Choi

‘I haven’t read a more beautiful, more raging and anguished account of racism and female erasure. It's a book about survival and unbelonging’
—Neel Mukherjee

This Part Is Silent by SJ Kim is out today! ✨
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/this...

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · 28d

Congratulations to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, whose translation of Verdigris by Michele Mari has been shortlisted for the 2025 @littranslate.bsky.social Italian Prose in Translation Award! 🎉

American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 28d

🎉 ALTA is delighted to announce the 2025 shortlists for the following prizes:

🏆ALTA First Translation Prize
🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award
🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award

Congrats to all on these lists! buff.ly/tVFTq3h

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · Sep 2

In January we will publish, for the very first time outside of Australia, LANDSCAPE WITH LANDSCAPE by Gerald Murnane.

Cruelly reviewed when first published, this collection of short fiction, Murnane’s first, is now regarded as one of the author’s best works.

www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · Sep 1

We’re over the moon to announce that Manya Wilkinson has been awarded this year’s Hawthornden Prize for Literature for her novel LUBLIN.

Having previously won both the RSL Encore Award and the Wingate Prize, LUBLIN continues its prize-winning journey.

www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-...

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem translated by Sinan Antoon from @andotherstories.bsky.social

Written in 2014, translated and first published 2019.

Chronology is wearing away at the element of magic-realism.

‘In the next few hours we will count and register everyone. Anyone whose name doesn't appear, or who doesn't return within forty-eight hours of the first cases of disappearance by Arabs, meaning by 3 a.m. tomor-row, will not be allowed to return. Their property shall be transferred to the state.
"We will not tolerate or accept any returnees. Whoever is not in the country by 3 a.m. will lose his or her right to be in this place or to have any access to it.
"They have disappeared of their own volition.‘

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · Aug 28

Murnane

…but he heard enough to be able to feel what he hoped to feel whenever he listened to a piece of music: to feel as though a person unknown to him in a desirable place far away from him desired to be in a place still further away.

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · Aug 27

Coming February 2026: THE ROOF BENEATH THEIR FEET by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Rahul Soni.

We couldn’t be more thrilled to be bringing this landmark work of Indian fiction to readers outside of India for the very first time.

www.andotherstories.org/the-roof-ben...

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The Paperback Psychologist @thepaperbackpsych.bsky.social · Aug 15

2025 International Booker Prize: Meet the Winners Panel at Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi was this years International @thebookerprizes.com winner. The panel celebrated the book & the art of translation.
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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Aug 19

For @electricliterature.com, I interviewed Rosalind Belben in anticipation of the rerelease of her seductively strange 1979 novel ‘Dreaming of Dead People’ this month from @andotherstories.bsky.social: electricliterature.com/rosalind-bel...

Rosalind Belben Reflects on the Foreplay of Wordplay - Electric Literature

The author of “Dreaming of Dead People” discusses sexuality, double standards in art, and the vicissitudes of literary publishing

electricliterature.com

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · Aug 8

Kind of a dream episode of The Lit Hub Podcast this week: I got to talk to @bradlander.bsky.social about Shakespeare and how art encourages empathy, and then to @andotherstories.bsky.social about what happens when a small press wins a big prize. lithub.com/on-the-lit-h...

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Brad Lander Talks Sonnets; What Happens When a Small Press Wins the Booker

A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Br…

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · Aug 7

‘There is so much brutal, raw, and beautiful power in these stories’
– Tommy Orange

‘Magnificent’
– New York Times

Night of the Living Rez, @morgantalty.bsky.social's award-winning debut short story collection, publishes in the UK and Europe today! ✨
www.andotherstories.org/night-of-the...

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · Aug 6

this you need

And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · Aug 5

Out now: Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben, a landmark work of British fiction, finally back in print!
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Dreaming of Dead People | And Other Stories

In the ‘middle of life’ Lavinia reviews her frustrations, her solitariness, the grief and the rapture, her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the masks of Owl, for winter, a...

www.andotherstories.org

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · Aug 5

Out now: Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben, a landmark work of British fiction, finally back in print!
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Dreaming of Dead People | And Other Stories

In the ‘middle of life’ Lavinia reviews her frustrations, her solitariness, the grief and the rapture, her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the masks of Owl, for winter, a...

www.andotherstories.org

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · Aug 5

‘Deeply strange, uncompromising and extraordinarily powerful'
– @jcbuckley.bsky.social

‘If the world includes Rosalind Belben and her words it cannot be considered an altogether regrettable place to be'
– Harry Mathews

‘Belben's exceptional voice deserves a resurgence‘
– Irenosen Okojie

Out now✨

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 31

Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf

More than 40 years on from its first publication, this exploration of one woman’s thoughts and fantasies is a gem worthy of rediscovery

www.theguardian.com

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · Jul 31

‘If this novel is as confessional as it seems, it is truly fearless: death, ageing, anorgasmia, loneliness, despair and madness are all here, jostling for attention, just as they do for many of us, for all we may seek to tune them out’

Dreaming of Dead People is @theguardian.com's Book of the Day!✨

Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf

More than 40 years on from its first publication, this exploration of one woman’s thoughts and fantasies is a gem worthy of rediscovery

www.theguardian.com

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · Jul 31

"Clarity, specificity and heart"

Read our ★★★★ review of Night of the Living Rez by @morgantalty.bsky.social, a short story collection tracing a community living on the Penobscot Indian Reservation – out next week on @andotherstories.bsky.social

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty: book review - The Skinny

A curious formalistic work, Morgan Talty's collection of short stories reads more like a novel as it traces a community living on the Penobscot Indian Reservation.

www.theskinny.co.uk

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · Jul 31

There's a story in here which will remain with me till death, I'm sure. I have Booker longlister @jcbuckley.bsky.social to thank for urging me to read Belben. I have @andotherstories.bsky.social to thank for sending me a copy. What a delight this writer is. Now in her nineties.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 31

Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf

More than 40 years on from its first publication, this exploration of one woman’s thoughts and fantasies is a gem worthy of rediscovery

www.theguardian.com

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · Jul 29

Starting Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben, introduced by Gabriel Josipovici. www.andotherstories.org/dreaming-of-... @andotherstories.bsky.social

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