Last week, the literary world seemed to revolve once more around the Frankfurt Book Fair. France was Guest of Honour, visitor numbers rose compared to 2016, over 4,000 events informed and entertained the visitors. Sandra van Lente discovered great authors, publishers and mediators at the fair, but some events left […] Read more
Last weekend, the wee Scottish city of Stirling tasted blood – and not for the first time. The crime festival Bloody Scotland took place for the sixth time since its inauguration in 2012 and drew a large crowd of authors and readers passionate about crime fiction (among them bloggers, booksellers, […] Read more
This short post is not going to be about what happened one year ago, it’s going to be about what’s on tomorrow and next week: it’s Independent Bookshop Week! This year, it runs from 24 June to 1 July and about 400 bookshops on the British isles are participating. “Independent […] Read more
Many countries all over the world celebrate World Book Day on 23 April. Many, but not all of them. The British, those little rebels, celebrated it on 2 March this year. Why? I don’t know and couldn’t find out. Explanations are very welcome. The United Nations ‘invented’ this day in […] Read more
On 26-28 January, the 32th British Council Literature Seminar opened its doors at the ever-inspiring Werkstatt der Kulturen (link). Seven authors and many seminar participants discussed the topic “Diverse Voices, New Directions”. This is the attempt of a summary plus links for further reading (at the end of the post). Read more
Dear readers, we hope the new year has started well for you! We are planning on taking a creative break and then get back to you with reviews, interviews, event reports, critical articles about developments in the literary field, public readings, reports from book fairs, and many more… Coming up […] Read more
Yesterday evening, we had the great pleasure to welcome the brilliant Scottish writer Dame Denise Mina for a public reading in Berlin. Denise Mina is probably best known for her crime novels – so far, she has published twelve of them – but she also writes short stories, plays and […] Read more
Please join us for the next Literary Field Kaleidoscope reading with the brilliant Scottish author Denise Mina. Best known for her crime fiction, Denise Mina also wrote plays for TV, radio and theatre, short stories and graphic novels. She will read from a selection of her works and engage in […] Read more
Just like every year in October, thousands of people travelled to Frankfurt to buy, sell, network during the book fair. The börsenblatt (similar to The Bookseller) announced 7,100 exhibitors from more than 100 countries. The organisers seemed to have worried about declining figures in terms of exhibitors and visitors, but […] Read more
This is a slightly abridged version of an interview conducted with the British authors Sophie Hannah, Bethan Roberts and Kate Summerscale in Berlin during the #BritLit seminar about “Brit Crime – A New Golden Age of Crime Writing?”. We talked about the involvement of authors in events and the promotion […] Read more
