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  “Everybody sees the world a little differently,” Natalie Ann Holborow said, while introducing us all to her beautiful new collection of poetry Little Universe, journaling the ways she has observed the world around her. From people-watching in a hospital ward, to rediscovering an appreciation for nature during her lockdown walks through Gower, Natalie’s collection is a lovely appreciation for people and places alike. Natalie is a winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Prize, and has been shortlisted and commended for the Bridport Prize, the National Poetry Competition, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine and...

We caught up with Philippa Holloway, whose debut short story collection Untethered was published last month, to ask her some questions...     Hi Philippa, and thank you for taking the time to talk to us. What inspired you to write your short story collection Untethered? Each of the stories in this collection is drawn from an observation, a question, or a concern, and the short story form is the perfect space for exploring these. It can be the smallest spark that sets me going – a shoe abandoned on the side of a road, a news story or headline,...

To celebrate #womenintranslation Parthian are offering free postage to Europe on all of our titles, including our wealth of translated titles. Just type code EUROPE at checkout, if you live on the mainland of Europe or the island of Ireland and want to take advantage of this offer. Since #brexit many readers in Europe who order books from us have had to pay a surcharge at their post office, even though we've covered all of the costs already. This has made ordering books from the UK, when you live in the EU, wildly expensive. There are plenty of fantastic translated...

Talking Translation: Interview with Caroline Waight on Death Drives an Audi by Ann Bjerregaard Caroline Waight is an award-winning freelance translator from Danish and German into English. Among her recent translations we find the darkly humorous novel Death Drives an Audi by Danish author Kristian Bang Foss. The translation is published by Parthian Books as part of their Carnivale translations series. We asked her about the process of translating the novel and got her to tell more of the explorative and creative work that is translation. Ann Bjerregaard is an editor and writer based in Denmark.    Ann: How did you become...