Praise for 'Three Kinds of Kissing': a novel of friendship, drama and deception, set in a small Scottish community in the late 60s and early 70s - find this new old favourite here: buff.ly/3W7M2Qe

Just a week ago @tjemersonwrites wrote us a heartfelt essay in memory of Helen Lamb, 'Three Kinds of Kissing', and communion with the words of those no longer with us. Read the newsletter here: mailchi.mp/259e5a05b312/c…

Here's a short essay I wrote for @vagabondvoices about Three Kinds of Kissing, the brilliant novel by my much missed friend, Helen Lamb. It's a piece about literary friendships and the way words can connect the living and the dead: tinyurl.com/yahbsbp4

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'Literatures are at their best when they have an ear for what other literatures are doing.' —Allan Cameron

It's #TranslationThursday ! What are you reading at the moment? If you need any new translated novels in your life, visit our Changelings catalogue: vagabondvoices.co.uk/changelings

New newsletter just in! Allan Cameron reviews Halldór Laxness’s 'Fish Can Sing' - an Icelandic novel with a certain nostalgia for the non-modern and the non-urban, for a world not unlike Scotland’s Gaelic past. More here: buff.ly/3J9DUaf

Three years ago we published MITHER TONGUE! Jidi Majia is from the minority Nuosu culture in China, and his poetry is translated here by Stuart Paterson, Sheena Blackhall and Christine de Luca into three strands of the Scots language. More here: vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/mither-…

'You don't want to call it a genocide, call it a massacre, call it mass murder. whatever word you want to use, that is the reality for Palestinian people.' Earlier today when Sky News tried to argue it’s not a genocide

A grey day is a good time to visit a new place - preferably a warmer one! Why not escape and visit a new country with our translated fiction? 📚❤
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Update on Gaza II - The Flour Massacre: mailchi.mp/72a7cb7f56ec/u…

Just finished reading Sharon Black’s poetry collection ‘The Last Woman Born on the Island’ from Vagabond Voices . Lyrical, forceful poems full of longing and belonging. Very much enjoyed this fine collection. Recommend.

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Many starry nights ago we published Vicki Husband's THIS FAR BACK EVERYTHING SHIMMERS - a book of poems that infuse the mundane with stellar significance, shortlisted for the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year 2016. Order it from our website now: vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/this-fa… 🌟⭐️✨

Here are just a few of the wonderful translated works we've had the pleasure to publish! From around the world and throughout the last century, explore them all here in our catalogue of Vagabonds: buff.ly/3TbrTXR

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Sandris is from 1960s Latvia; Grace, from 1970s Britain - far from each other in location and yet surprisingly close in spirit, their stories are of two young people searching for themselves, not knowing the tragedies that lie ahead. More here:
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This #TranslationThursday we're back with Zigmunds Skujiņš' 'Nakedness'. Read more about it on our website - with free delivery, as ever!
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A peek at our latest newsletter, with a Vagabond Voices essay on childhood and more. Read the rest here: buff.ly/487oSvO

Here begins REDLEGS by Chris Dolan, the story of a young Scottish actress chosen for a career in Barbados. Winding through white supremacy, loss, and rash historical mistakes, the novel asks what makes a Nation: bloodlines? Language? History?

More here: vagabondvoices.co.uk/vagabonds/redl…