The blog tour celebrating the UK publication of Gary Barker's The Museum of Lost Love has successfully come to a close! Check out all of our great reviews from our bloggers below. Monday 7 Oct Bella Jones @BellaOJonesTues 8 Oct Novel Delights @KirstHutchisonWed 9 Oct ...
She is speaking at the London Literature Festival (link) on 26 October and also be appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour (25 October link)Already published in the US to critical acclaim, and nominated for the ‘Swedish Booker’, the August prize, Welcome to America is...
At the World Editions offices we are very excited to read here in The Guardian that Maryse Condé may be in the running for a Nobel Prize in Literature this year. According to the article: "The Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya, the Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé, and The...
Come and see our author Esther Gerritsen, writer of Craving (reviewed by the New York Times here) and the soon-to-be-released Roxy, on stage with a whole host of other brilliant names at this event exploring new Dutch literature at the British Library in October.From the...
Hector Abad visited London this month to launch the English translation of his memoir, Oblivion. He did three BBC interviews, including BBC Radio Scotland’s Sunday Morning With…, BBC Radio 3 Freethinking (broadcast on Wednesday 25 September – link is here)And the World Service Book Club...
Rodaan’s book, Two Blankets, Three Sheets, is published in January 2020. It’s a fictionalized account of the author’s time in a Dutch asylum centre. He arrives in the Netherlands as a refugee – he claims asylum at Schiphol Airport after seven years on the run...
Esther Gerritsen, bestselling Dutch author of Craving and Roxy will be discussing the darker side of the human psyche with Hermann Koch at a special day of Dutch writing at the British Library on Saturday 12 October. Link hereOther writers appearing include Simon Schama, Costa...
Praised by Coetzee as ‘A tragic and unforgettable history’ Oblivion is a heartbreaking tribute to the author’s father, Héctor Abad Gómez. His father was a medical doctor, university professor, and human-rights leader who set up public-health programmes for the poor in Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city.But...
World Editions is offering an exciting internship opportunity at our Amsterdam office starting late 2019. Working with our team here in Amsterdam, interns will be part of the day-to-day running of a busy international publishing house. As we are a small company, the intern will...
German-Lebanese author Pierre Jarawan will be appearing at the worlds’ largest book festival, The Edinburgh Book Festival, on Saturday 24 August. He’ll be in ‘in conversation’ with Anissa M Bouziane, author of Dune SongDon’t miss the chance to hear Pierre talk about his debut novel,...