The English translation of Mozambiquan author Mia Couto’s novel, Woman of the Ashes, translated by David Brookshaw, received its first review in the Sunday Times in February 2019 link with reviewer Nick Rennison describing it as "an original, occasionally perplexing but always intriguing work of...
The Rain Watcher, already a bestseller in France, launches in the UK this month! Join Tatiana de Rosnay’s blog tour from 7 March onwards at these top literary blogs....
Pierre Jarawan and Tatiana de Rosnay paid a flying visit to London booksellers ahead of publication to showcase their forthcoming books, The Storyteller and The Rain Watcher.Tatiana will be back for a public event in May, and Pierre will be at the Edinburgh Book Festival in...
Colombian superstar Héctor Abad visited the UK for three days, 10-13 October 2018, to launch the UK edition of The Farm, translated by Anne McLean.The Farm, a captivating story of three closely-knit siblings thrown into conflict over the fate of the family home received stunning reviews...
Sisonke is one of the most exciting contemporary female black voices in literature, frequently compared to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A bestselling South African author, she is now based in Australia. She is an accomplished speaker, and her TED Talk “If a story moves you, act...
Newly translated into English, Jan Vantoortelboom’s His Name is David, a Dutch-language bestseller, is a tale of forbidden love set in World War I in Flanders. Consisting of vignettes, the story opens as a young Belgian school teacher faces a firing squad for desertion.Jan attended...
Christine Otten, author of The Last Poets, visited the UK for exclusive events at the Hay and Edinburgh Festivals and the British Library, in collaboration with Apples and Snakes.Read Christine’s Guardian article here and in the Irish Times here.You can see the book reviewed in...
World Editions starts the new year with a brand new website. Since we have recently started publishing in the US, on top of our publishing activities in the UK, we felt our variety of programs and activities in both territories should be reflected in a two-sided website with separate...
At the 'Books at Berlinale' session at the Berlin International Film Festival, Benoîte Groult's Salt...
Maryse Condé has received well-deserved recognition with this year’s alternative to the Nobel Prize for Literature, the New Academy Prize, an accolade that has been officially awarded to her at the ceremony on December 9 in Stockholm. We will be publishing two of her novels in...