The Convoy is the harrowing, urgent memoir from award-winning French-Rwandan author Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, where she pieces together her own history during the events of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
🇫🇷 Translated by Ruth Diver.
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We celebrate translation every day, but Thursdays are our favourite. It’s our special moment to spotlight global voices, share stories across languages, and give translated books the extra love they deserve.
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It’s Translated Thursday!
We’re celebrating by spotlighting our published titles alongside our upcoming summer release. Take a look and tell us, are any of these on your TBR?
#ReadTheWorld #BooksSky #TranslatedThursdays #Translated
Meet the Author: Valentin Deudon 📖⚽️
French writer and poet blending storytelling with #Football. His upcoming #EricCantona: 82 Goals (11 June 2026, tr. Ian Monk) is a love letter to one of the game’s most iconic players.
Available to pre-order now!
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From quiet literary gems to gripping modern tales, translated fiction proves stories cross borders. They connect us, challenge us, and show how much we share.
What translated book has stayed with you? 🌏📖
#Books #ReadTheWorld #WordsWithoutBorders #BookSky #TranslatedFiction
Five reasons to love #TranslatedFiction 🌍📚
Translated fiction (or #NonFiction) allows you explore the world without a passport, opening doors to new cultures, voices, and perspectives. Every story offers a fresh way of seeing things beyond your own experience.
#ReadTheWorld #BookSky #Readers
Meet the Author: Valentin Deudon 📖⚽️
French author Valentin Deudon blends storytelling with a passion for #Football. His new book, #ÉricCantona: 82 Goals, explores the game’s cultural impact. Publishing 11/06, #Translated by Ian Monk.
Available to pre-order now: www.waterstones.com/book/eric-ca...
Mystery Monday 🔍
This Book Holiday Monday (see what we did there?) settle in with the new Comandante De Luca #Mystery, #TheDarkestWinter, from Carlo Lucarelli, translated by Joseph Farrell.
Italian noir at its finest!🕵♂️
#BankHoliday #BookSky #TranslatedFiction #BookHolidayWeekend #CurrentlyReading
This book is PERFECT for:
⚽️ Lovers of #Football history and 90s #PremierLeague nostalgia.
❤️ #ManchesterUnited fans who know Cantona changed everything.
📖 Fans of #Translated #Literary #NonFiction
🥅 #Readers who are intrigued by iconic, rebellious figures.
#EricCantona #82Goals #BookSky #Books
Pack a proof with us 📖
One of our favourite things as a publisher is sending out early reading copies of our upcoming titles… there’s nothing like the excitement of discovering a brand new book ✨
#UK #BookInfluencers and #Booksellers, let us know if you'd like a copy of #EricCantona #82Goals
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s memoir #TheConvoy captures the raw, haunting courage amid the unimaginable horror of the 1994 #Genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda.
A powerful #Memoir, translated by award-winning translator, Ruth Diver that everyone MUST read.
#Quotes #Translated #ReadTheWorld #Readers
PERFECT for:
⚽️ Lovers of #Football history and 90s Premier League nostalgia.
❤️ #ManchesterUnited fans who know Cantona changed everything.
📖 Fans of #TranslatedFiction with a #Literary edge.
🥅 #Readers who are intrigued by iconic, rebellious figures.
Let us know if you'd like a copy to #Review!
⚽ EARLY #UK READER COPIES ⚽
Early reader copies of Valentin Deudon's Éric Cantona: 82 Goals, translated by Ian Monk are available now! #Book #Reviewers, please do let us know in the comments if you would like to receive a copy ⚽️👇
#Football #PremierLeague #EricCantona #BookSky #Readers #BookReview
One week a hero, the next a villain. Always unforgettable.
Pre-order your copy today: www.waterstones.com/book/eric-ca...
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#EricCantona #82Goals #ManchesterUnited #FootballLegend #BookSky #Sports #NonFiction
We’re thrilled to announce Éric Cantona: 82 Goals by Valentin Deudon, translated by Ian Monk (who sadly passed soon after completing the translation), out 11/06/2026
Through 82 unforgettable goals for Manchester United, Cantona comes alive: the genius, the swagger, the controversy, the poetry. ⚽
POWERFUL Non-Fiction Recommendations that you NEED to read!
When reality hits harder than fiction. These unforgettable accounts of war, violence, survival, and resilience will stay with you long after the last page.
#TheConvoy #OurDailyWar #Rwanda #Ukraine #Nonfiction #BookSky #ImportantReads
Throwback Thursday!
We are over the moon to share that we have acquired World Rights (excluding North America and Italy) to The Girls with the Pale Blue Eyes by Kam Majd.
A gripping, female-driven #Thriller about two sisters caught in a global conspiracy-where truth, loyalty, and survival...
He even checked in with Emmanuel Macron and it’s on his reading list 👀
“Everyone who has read it has told me they now understand Finland better.”
The Winter Warriors is out in paperback this June. and available now in hardback AND it's only £1.19 on Kindle!
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During an Asiastudio podcast interview, Petteri Orpo revealed he gave copies of The Winter Warriors (t. Nick Caistor) to European leaders as a Christmas gift.
“Like many Finns, I loved it… Half of them have now told me they’ve read it,” he said, including Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz. (1/2)
Map Monday 🗺📍
📌 Ukraine.
A country. A conflict. A story still unfolding.
#ThreeYearsonFire by Andrey Kurkov captures life of the Ukranian people under siege, as it happens.
Raw, urgent, and deeply human.
A must read!
#MapMonday #BookSky #AndreyKurkov #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #ReadTheWorld
How beautiful are these words?!
Lost in translation… but still beautiful.
Check out these five words that exist in the world but are unable to be perfectly translated into English ✨📖
💫 Is there a word that you love that doesn't have an exact English translation?
#booklovers #Translation #readingcommunity #literaturelover
And the last, but by no means least, these two beautiful words, lost in English translation 😍
Dutch: Gezellig
Easter Island: Pascuense
Share your favourite word!
Have you ever heard of any of these?
Japan: Komorebi (木漏れ日)
Portuguese: Saudade
German: Schadenfreude
#WorldLiterature #Translation #Translators
Let us know:
📚 Do you have a favourite translated author we should know about?
🌍 Which country’s literature do you want to explore next?
💬 Tag a friend who loves international reads!
#TranslatedTuesdays #Translation #BookSky
It's #TranslatedTuesday and what better way to celebrate than an introduction to the INCREDIBLE translated & world literature that we've published so far (there is SO much more to come!)
🌎 What was the last country that you visited through the pages of a book?
#worldliterature #internationalbooks
Every #Translated book is a collaboration between #Author & #Translator:
📖 Georges Perec × David Bellos
📖 Javier Marías × Margaret Jull Costa
📖 José Saramago × Margaret Jull Costa
Translators are the bridge.
What was the first translated book you ever read? 🌏📖
#Reading #BookSky #ReadTheWorld
For Christopher MacLehose, it all began with Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya, who introduced him to Soviet Russian writers like Andrey Platonov and Vasily Grossman in Robert Chandler’s translations. One book can open the door to an entire world of literature.
🌍📚 Celebrating #Translated #Literature!
Open Borders Press founder and publisher Christopher MacLehose shares some heartening news: sales of literature in translation are strong and growing. A reminder that readers are increasingly looking beyond borders for the stories they read.
#ReadTheWorld
#UK Kindle eBook Deal📖
13th March marks 86 years since the end of the Finland–Soviet Winter War. NOW is the timely moment to dive into Olivier Norek’s The Winter Warriors, translated by Nick Caistor. An epic historical thriller set at the outbreak of war in 1939 Finland.
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