Dear readers, We’re going to take a break over the summer and hope you’ll be back for our next post in the fall. You can sign up on the bottom of the page to receive an email whenever a new post goes online. In case you’re still looking for more […] Read more
Sandra van Lente went to Harrogate to see what the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival was all about. Harrogate is one of “the” places to go you are interested in crime fiction – this seems to be true for readers as well as agents, editors and other “book professionals”. This […] Read more
Gesa Stedman comments on recent publications from Scotland, ranging from novels to Read more
Alys Conran, who won the Wales Book of the Year Award for her debut novel “Pigeon” is coming to Berlin to read from her novels. On Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 5pm she will read at the Centre for British Studies on Mohrenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin. Following her successful novel “Pigeon”, […] Read more
Judith Kerr, renowned children’s book writer and illustrator, has died shortly before her 96th birthday. Her work is known Read more
Depressed by Brexit? In need of literary and musical sustenance? Come to Literaturhaus Berlin, Read more
Sandra van Lente berichtet von einigen Eindrücken auf ihren Kurzreisen zu den Buchmessen in London und Leipzig, von Forschungsprojekten, Buchorchestern und engagierten Gastlandautorinnen. London Book Fair – die letzte vor dem großen B*? Letzte Woche war ich nach langer Zeit zum ersten Mal wieder auf der Londoner Buchmesse. Früher fand […] Read more
Gesa Stedman takes a look back at trends and developments which dominated the literary field in the UK in 2018. While non-fiction was on the up, fiction was less important Read more
Our guest authors Sonya Permiakova attended this year’s #BritLitBerlin conference about “Cities in Contemporary UK Literature” and shares some of her impressions with us. The programme of this year’s British Culture Literature Seminar was brought together by award-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts – and it was due to his effort […] Read more
Dear readers, This is our last post in 2018. We hope you get to enjoy a well-deserved break, maybe even with a Christmas book flood of your own. We plan to enjoy both, the break and the books, and we’ll keep our eyes open for new books, authors, publishers and […] Read more
