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From today until midnight on Monday you can get 25% off your OUR CITY THAT YEAR pre-order at Waterstones - don’t miss out!

Use code PREORDER25 to redeem the offer.

The offer is exclusively available on the Waterstones website and the Waterstones app.


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22.02.2025 10:53 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off. (Gift Article) The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.

A small UK #publisher took a chance translating unusual #books & it's paid off big time! A great story in a time when expanding into the unknown means risking losing everything. @kvalfaro.bsky.social @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social (Gifting for anyone wanting to read).
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...

21.02.2025 20:01 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

a screenshot of a review of dd's Umbrella in Publisher's Weekly

"Hwang shines an illuminating light on the repression that persists amid social progress. It’s a tender and revealing portrait of characters on the margins"

dd's Umbrella in @publisherswkly.bsky.social!

www.publishersweekly.com/9781911284949

13.02.2025 18:09 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The Society of Authors announces winners of £30k Translation Prizes Ten literary translators and one editor have been announced as the winners of the Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes, sharing a prize fund of more than £30,000 together with the runners-up.

Yet MORE exciting news for our publishers has come in this week — @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social and Peirene Press have both been awarded Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes for their brilliant work 👏 Congratulations!!

www.thebookseller.com/news/the-soc...

12.02.2025 16:26 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

AAS 2025 Prizes - Association for Asian Studies The AAS is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s prize competitions and offer congratulations to all honorees. Please join us at the AAS 2025 Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony to recog...

We're very proud that Tiffany Tsao is an honoree at the @aasasianstudies.bsky.social Awards!

Her translation of Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu has received an honourable mention for the A.L. Becker Southeast Asian Literature in Translation Prize

bit.ly/AAS2025prizes

13.02.2025 16:19 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Tilted Axis Press Took a Big Risk on Translated Literature. It Paid Off. (Gift Article) The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.

"At a moment when nationalism and isolationism are rising in both Europe and the United States, the window that literature can provide into other cultures feels essential."
Great profile of @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social & case for international lit in the NYTimes today

15.02.2025 21:34 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

Just landed in US & got texts abt us in NYT! Love this still of us in Libreria (made sure to wear a kebaya). Look at these bibliophiles 🤍 Tx Alexandra Alter

My 5th book (& 2nd w TAP), ANNAH, INFINITE, out June,is all abt how western art created disbelief of brown wmn’s emergencies. (Take note, NYT)

15.02.2025 17:53 — 👍 26    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

So excited for our 2025 list!

19.02.2025 12:36 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off. The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.

Thanks to Alexandra Alter for taking the time to understand what we do and why we do it. Much love to the authors and translators that trust us with their work! And massive shout out to the @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social team and their absolute dedication to the press ✊🏼

19.02.2025 12:35 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0