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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 2d

Not forgetting our four mystery titles from 1925! 😊✨
The Blue Diamond by Annie Haynes
Witness on the Roof by Annie Haynes
The Black Cabinet by Patricia Wentworth
The Dower House Mystery by Patricia Wentworth
#1925Club

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 1d

a picture of a mountain with the words coucou written on it

ALT: a picture of a mountain with the words coucou written on it

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Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 2d

One week to go! @kaggsy59.bsky.social

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 1d

U ever have the flat feeling a sort of inertia hits you I've been that recently the stress of Amanda's heart attack on me but also feeling stuck in general that's been me recently not sure what to do but sure at some point inspiration and desire will return

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d

From the archive for Katherine Mansfield, #BornOnThisDay in 1888, thoughts on THE GARDEN PARTY.

There's a beautiful fluidity of emotion in these stories as they move from happiness and gaiety to sadness and loneliness in the blink of an eye #BookSky 💙📚

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The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield (1922)

What to say about this collection of fifteen of Mansfield’s short stories, other than to highlight its brilliance? I loved working my way through this short volume, reading one or two pieces on a d…

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 3d

The latest @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column by Catherine Taylor is now online for subscribers 👇

Fiction in translation: The Midnight Timetable; The Woman Dies; The Ferryman & His Wife; My Name Is Stramer; Wolf Moon’ and The Loft

Books by Bora Chung (Korea), Japan (Aoko Matsuda), Frode Grytten (Norway), Mikołaj Łoziński (Poland), Julio Llamazares (Spain) and Marlen Haushofer (Austria)

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 3d

Isn't that what great books meant to do Ulysses moby dick don Quixote even over time they changed looking forward to reading it yet to come out in uk till end of month

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 3d

Extremely pleased to have a story in Wigleaf.

Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 3d

new new: "Franchise," by Elise Blackwell: wigleaf.com

w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction

An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 3d

Yes that's what I've heard others say

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 3d

And how did you find it ?

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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 5d

It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡

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Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 3d

9 Books to Add to Your #Halloween TBR @catapultbooks.bsky.social @counterpoint @softskull

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 3d

Weekend reading 1930s America and Victorian Portuguese novella

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 7d

winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/08/n... the yearly fun Nobel guessing post

Nobel Literaure 2025 - Winstonsdad's Blog

It is that time of year when we all think about who is going to win the Nobel Literature Prize. There is a feeling that in the last few years the prize has alternated between a female and a Male. This...

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Lisa Hill @anzlitlovers.bsky.social · 10d

@stujallen.bsky.social Late for #TranslationThurs People from Oetimu (2019) by Felix Nesi, translated 2025 by Lara Norgaard: anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/05/p...

People from Oetimu (2019) by Felix Nesi, translated 2025 by Lara Norgaard

People from Oetimu came my way via a review from Stu at Winston’s Dad. Felix Nesi (b. 1988) is an author from Indonesian West Timor, and the novel is set there, on the western part of the isl…

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 11d

winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/04/n... a milestone on the blog this is the 1500th book reviewed a lost gem from Iceland nothing rescued by Astra Sigurdardottir

Nothing to be rescued by Ásta Sigurdardóttir - Winstonsdad's Blog

Nothing to be rescued by Ásta Sigurdardóttir Icelandic short stories Original title - Sunnudagskvöld til mánudagsmorguns Translator Meg Matich Source - Review copy I had held this back with this post ...

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 13d

We’ll need to think about a man, my mother started to say.

A man. The sound of the word was strange to me. At that time, I had yet to see a man, but my mother had told me about them often.
#BookSky 💙📚 #TranslationThurs

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Asa Yoneda)

The award-winning Japanese writer Hiromi Kawakami first came to prominence with her beautiful, meditative novella Strange Weather in Tokyo (tr. Allison Markin Powell), which was shortlisted for the…

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Stu (winstonsdad) @stujallen.bsky.social · 13d

It seems to have been translated but by a small press a few years ago and then a book on Amazon that looks like a print in demand book so not sure how good a translation it be