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A rusty shipwreck on the sideways cover of Ivana Sajko's new English novel, Every Time We Say Goodbye, tr. Mima Simić. Below that, the text reads: Launching Ivana Sajko's Every Time We Say Goodbye. 14 October, 8 pm, DAAD Galerie, Oranienstr. 161, Berlin

The writer Ivana Sajko (a white woman with long brown hair and a red smile) and her translator Mima Simić (another white woman with short greying hair, looking enigmatic)

Berliners can help us launch our book for 2025 on 14 October. Join us – this doesn't happen very often. #slowpublishing

A grapevine in glorious sunshine, plus the information: UK and Ireland summer sale: 40% off all books! Enter code: Summer25 at checkout (until 31 Aug)

Our summer sale is on. 40% off all our published physical and e-books until the end of our month. Head to vq-books.eu to order.

Ivana Sajko's next novel in English, EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE, tr. Mima Simić. The book cover features a modern-day shipwreck rotated 90 degrees, and it's held up against a poster of a sea and a lifeboat. The captions say: "Our 2025 title comes out 10 October" and "More Sajko and Simić".

Our 2025 book is printed and ready to pre-order! It's an intense reflection on violence from systemic to domestic, written in chapter-long sentences, by the Dublin Literary Award-shortlisted pairing of Ivana Sajko and Mima Simić.
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Hello! We took a little break but we're BACK IN ACTION! In case you don't know us, we publish remarkable writing from Germany, in English. You can buy our books in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
We practise #SlowPublishing, bringing out one book a year. Next one in October!

A new book review of Irina Liebmann's untranslated Berliner Mietshaus, up on our Love German Books blog – a unique and revealing monument to real lives in East Berlin: vq-books.eu/irina-liebma...

More reading highlights from translators on our #LoveGermanBooks blog, this time from Alexandra Roesch: vq-books.eu/alexandra-ro...

After a veritable orgy of doing nothing much over the holidays, we're back with someone else's hard work: @dances-with-voles.bsky.social on our blog: vq-books.eu/ruth-martins...

Translator Tess Lewis gives us her top three German books from 2023: vq-books.eu/tess-lewiss-...

Interview with Priscilla Layne – New Books in German New Books in German promotes German-language literature for translation into English

A sneak preview of our 2024 book in this @newgermanbooks.bsky.social interview with its translator, Priscilla Layne:
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I watched a seminar on copywriting and SEO and between flinching, I thought: OK, what "content" could I "produce" to "attack my target audience's pain points". This is the best I could do, sorry:
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Our friend Helen MacCormac wrote for our Love German Books blog, about the debut novelist Caroline Wahl at Literaturhaus Kassel.
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A picture of our blog headline: "One Day" in a Week: Bringing German Books into UK Schools. There's also a photo of Sophie Lau talking to students.

We're really pleased to have another guest post on our blog, this time Sophie Lau on bringing German poetry to UK schools.
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Extra points if you can guess which word is missing in the alt captions.

Our golden book LOVE NOVEL with golden high heels on the cover, bedded on pine branches and nestled with golden baubles and a red plastic apple (with a golden leaf), against a curly white background used in an attempt to simulate snow.

Teeny tiny featureless white figurines and teeny tiny fir trees splatted with possibly Tippex to simulate snow. One of the figurines is balancing a golden hoop earring over its outstretched, which is about the same height as the figurine itself.

We'd like you to buy our books for your loved ones this season. So we took some photos of them against a Christmassy backdrop in an effort to persuade you, and some more photos of Christmassy things to go with them.
Here's the Dublin Prize-shortlisted LOVE NOVEL.
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A shiny new Love German Books blog post, catching you up on autumn book awards: to Tonio Schachinger, Clemens J. Setz, Lutz Seiler – but also some women writers.
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It's a really great thing, very glad it's in the world.

A new review up on our blog, of Sharon Dodua Otoo's riff on Heinrich Böll: vq-books.eu/heinrich-bol...
If you fancy reviewing German books in English or other old-fashioned blogging fun, let us know.

...but we welcome guest contributions. Our first is by the wonderful translator, poet, mover & shaker Annie Rutherford, on chronic fatigue and translating Annette von Droste Hülshoff:
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...or indeed this review of Teresa Präauer's novel Kochen im falschen Jahrhundert, which just won the Bremen Literature Prize...
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It'll be mostly our publisher Katy Derbyshire, like this piece about this year's Frankfurt Book Fair...
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Hello there! We've joined Bluesky to celebrate our new blog, which you'll find on our website under the familiar tag of Love German Books:
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