Recent Acquisitions … at Work

Last month I was doing four weeks of work experience at DK (Dorling Kindersley) in the Marketing and PR department; I am now temping as a Digital Licensing Assistant. As you were receptive to my last posts regarding my shorter internship at CCV in Random House (now referred to just as Vintage), I intend to [...]

Recent Acquisitions

Here is a bundle of my latest review copies (and one competition win) for the bibliophilic voyeurs amongst you. Many thanks to Kirsty of Oxford University Press; Alice of Bloomsbury; Meike of Peirene Press; Fiona of Vintage; Harvey of Windmill and Rosamund of Penguin for supplying my summer, challenge and classic reading needs. I read [...]

The Flea Palace

Since starting to blog I have begun to pay closer attention to translation; not simply reading more books in translation (although that too) but the quality of the translation and its bearing on my enjoyment of the book. Pre-blogging, the translation itself was not something I considered and, until now, it remained on the periphery [...]