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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Annual repost. Happy International Translation Day!

Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Took my family on a proper summer holiday, decided it was time to finally read the quintessential summer book. Book: Sort Of Books Drink: Turia Cerveza

“The Summer Book” by Tove Jansson, tr. Thomas Teal, with a can of Turia beer on the beach

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eclipse playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/6Wf...

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If there’s one thing I’m known for, it’s choosing the most feel-good, lighthearted, low-effort poolside read. The first volume of Queen Jan Morris’s British Empire trilogy. Book: @faberbooks.bsky.social Drink: Aperol Spritz 🏳️‍⚧️

“Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress” by Jan Morris with an Aperol Spritz by the pool

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Inhaled this novel in practically one sitting. A razor sharp portrayal of a particular generation, one that occasionally hit way to close to home as a Millennial with an ever-precarious freelance career… Book: @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Drink: Ruinart R

“Perfection” by Vincenzo Latronico tr. Sophie Hughes, with a tall glass of champagne

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Multigenerational family saga? The history of a country told through a personal lens? Immigrant identity? Messy complex female characters? This book ticks ALL my boxes. Book: @4thestatebooks.bsky.social Drink: Sumac’garita from Sumac HK

“The Persians” by Salam Mahloudji with a pomegranate margarita

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Europa Editions @europaeditions.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It’s 5 o’clock somewhere... “Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs?” In THE DANGER TO BE SANE, Rosa Montero explores this (and many other) age-old question. Read the excerpt in @literaryhub.bsky.social: lithub.com/tag/the-dang... Translated by Lindsey Ford.

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Dr Joby Razzelliot @jobium.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Westminster MPs have until the end of the month to reject the proposed anti-trans guidance. If you haven’t written to your MP yet, here’s a good template for you to use. writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev

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Write the Letter, Babes

EDM 240 / prayer motion is live. Your MP needs to sign it. Two taps via the coalition tool.

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride Month! I recently finished Eva Baltasar’s gorgeous triptych about desire, queer identity and motherhood. Adored this one, but Boulder remains my favourite. Book: @andotherstories.bsky.social Drink: Cristal 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

‘Mammoth’ by Eva Baltasar, tr. Julia Snaches, with a glass of champagne

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Europa Editions @europaeditions.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Today is the day to sing the praises of Rosa Montero’s glimmering American debut, THE DANGER TO BE SANE! 🌸 In an intimate blend of memoir and history, Montero expertly draws on psychology and literature to explore the connection between creativity and mental vulnerability.

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 18/05/2026

Hong Kong LGBTQ carnival Pink Dot scrapped for second year after venue pulls out 🔗 buff.ly/dhhNW6m

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Working on this book was an incredible experience (not least because it exactly coincided with my second pregnancy), and it taught me so much about my own mental health. Rosa is one of Spain's most intelligent, warm and witty writers, and I'm so thrilled that more people get to experience her work.

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Today's very special post comes straight from my desk, where this book was made. Several years ago I met the brilliant Rosa Montero at the FCC in Hong Kong. I plied her with wine and told her I wanted to translate her books one day. 8 years later, here we are.

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Out today in the UK (!), and available for pre-order in the US. Book: @europaeditions.bsky.social Drink: Love Story Prosecco Rosé Brut

The Danger to Be Sane by Rosa Montero, translated by Lindsey Ford (me!), next to a computer screen with a glass of sparkling rosé

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Europa Editions @europaeditions.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Rosa Montero's THE DANGER TO BE SANE is one of The New York Times' most anticipated books of May! Montero's US debut blends memoir, essay, and cultural criticism to investigate the connection between literary creativity and mental vulnerability. Out on May 19! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/b...

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Out today in the UK (!), and available for pre-order in the US. Book: @europaeditions.bsky.social Drink: Love Story Prosecco Rosé Brut

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Saved this to savour on the 12hr flight home from London (photo taken at Heathrow departures, geddit?) If this is his final book it is a perfect ending, reflecting on his lifelong themes of memory, the blurring of fact and fiction, and the stories we tell ourselves. There’s no other writer like him.

Departures by Julian Barnes with a gin and tonic

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

A great thing about London Book Fair is getting your mitts on some free advance copies. A great thing about London is lamb chops with old friends at Tayyabs. Bonus cameo from my fave Japanese translator. Book: @andotherstories.bsky.social Drink: San Miguel supplied by @wrongsreversed.bsky.social

“Autobiography of Cotton” by Cristina Rivera Garza (tr. Christina MacSweeney) with a can of San Miguel

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Only one book to be reading on the flight to London Book Fair. Looking forward to scouring Olympia for free drinks with my fellow broke translators. Book: @prototypepubs.bsky.social Drink: Tanqueray & Fever Tree G&T

“Fair” by Jen Calleja with a gin and tonic at an airport bar

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A bit more masc and a bit more brutalist than I usually go for, but Nichola Smalley’s work on this translation is 🔥Book: @andotherstories.bsky.social Drink: Backward from Swim Club (superb new bar in HK)

“Purity” by Andrzej Tichy, tr. Nichola Smalley, with a matcha-rimmed cocktail

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I put off reading this for ages because, frankly, it seemed way too heavy, but now I can’t believe I waited so long to savour this incredible book. Bold and inventive and gorgeously written, I’m in love. Book: @serpents-tail.bsky.social Drink: Edouard Duval Brut d'Eulalie

“In the Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado with a glass of champagne

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 10/02/2026

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I don’t often reread books (the TBR pile is bad enough as it is) but had to make an exception before seeing the movie. It hits VERY differently after becoming a mother. Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Vinos de la Luz 2020 Cinema Ribera Del Duero

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Julian Barnes, imo, is one of the most intelligent, thoughtful and, frankly, under appreciated writers England has ever had. As I wait for his last (!) book to arrive, here’s his typically brilliant essay from last year. Book: @nottinghilleds.bsky.social Drink: 2024 Honeycomb Chardonnay

“Changing My Mind” by Julian Barnes with a glass of Chardonnay.

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It’s been a while since I last read a graphic novel, and I forgot how powerful the format can be. An incredible blend of storytelling and imagery, the personal and the political , history and the present - I’m blown away. Book: MCD/ @picadorbooks.bsky.social Drink: Bollinger

“Feeding Ghosts” by Tessa Hulls with a glass of champagne.

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Before we get too far into the new year, here's my list of 5 star reads of 2025! I read much less this past year (new baby sapped time, energy, brain power) but still managed to fit some bangers in there.

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Went to Singapore for the first time, found @jeremytiang.bsky.social in a bookshop, had to buy it. A brilliant introduction to the country’s history told in my favourite way: a juicy family saga. Book: Epigram Drink: Pepino from QT Singapore

“State of Emergency” by Jeremy Tiang with a fancy poolside cocktail

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Catching up on some of this year’s faves before my Best of 2025 list. I went into this one blind and loved it - so twisty and turny and meta, it made me want to reread it the instant I reached the last page. Book: Merky Books. Drink: some green cocktail I can’t remember the name of from Da Nang

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Christmas book haul! What are you reading/drinking today? Books: @nottinghilleds.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social Brazen, MCD, Hamish Hamilton Drink: Leon Perdigal 2013 Chateauneuf du Pape

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

While I’m still in moving hell, let’s catch up on some books from the last few months. First, the very definition of tight, terse European prose. Book: @andotherstories.bsky.social Drink: Lady Trieu Hoi An Spice Road Gin & Tonic

“I am the brother of XX” by Fleur Jaeggy with a gin and tonic

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

. @alexshephard.bsky.social continues to post the very best writing about the Nobel (and not just because he’s also a big Julian Barnes fan)

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Sometimes I think I’m overstimulated, and then sometimes I’m trying to read in my second language with a screaming baby and a shouting child and their multiple noisy toys and I’m trying to meet a deadline before dinner with my in laws and I forgot the point I was trying to make here, pls send help.

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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I had an idea awhile back to try to get a Bluesky prompt going asking people to share photos of their desks/workspaces (I still want to see them all, share yours with me!) so I’m absolutely in heaven with this @wallpapermag.bsky.social feature www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...

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This is where The Booker Prize nominees write: from kitchen tables to a cemetery bench

From kitchen tables to bare desks (and even a cemetery bench): 12 writers from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist on their favourite writing set-ups

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

A belated addition to #womenintranslationmonth: this eerie, engrossing novel that absolutely lives up to the hype, brilliantly (re)translated by the legendary Ros Schwartz.

“I Who Have Never Known Men” by Jacqueline Harpman tr. Ros Schwartz, with a dry gin martini with a twist

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

If you’re looking for one last read for #womenintranslationmonth, may I suggest this slim but powerful novella from Argentina? A moving exploration of loss and grief, translated beautifully as ever by the remarkable @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social Book: @charcopress.com Drink: Limewood Fresca #witmonth

‘Dislocations’ by Sylvia Molloy, tr. Jennifer Croft, with a tropical watermelon cocktail

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Good reading for hunkering down at home during a T10 typhoon 🌀 Book: Chatto & Windus Drink: Four Pillars Gin Gimlet with a Louis Roederer Champagne reduction (a clever @adamawhite.bsky.social trick for using up flat champagne)

The book “Fourteen Days”, ed. Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston with a gimlet cocktail

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

"No, what AI can do is not yet a threat to human translators and human readers of sophisticated, textured human writing. The threat is what some people think it can do." Daniel Hahn nails it as per usual observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

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AI won’t replace us human literary translators just yet

Yes, it can turn French words into English ones, but true translation is so much more than that

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Aussie restaurant, Aussie wine, and a sumptuous, unsettling Aussie classic that is well worth your time. I’m too scared to watch the movie adaptation though 🫣Book: @vintagebooks.bsky.social Drink: Hugh Hamilton The Trickster Pinot Grigio 2024

“Picnic at Hanging Rock” by Joan Lindsay on a kindle with a glass of white wine

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Amig@s hispanohablantes, me hace mucha ilusión que el segundo libro de mi amigo @jamestgriffiths.com, ya está disponible en español, traducido por Cristina Macía.

“Speak Not” by James Griffiths in Spanish translation: “No hablarás”, with a glass of red wine

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Can’t get over how good this one was. Inventive and funny and life-affirming, although maybe not the best decision for me to have read a novel based around child death right now. Book: Random House Drink: Paco Mulero Albariño 2021

“Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders with a glass of white wine.

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

For Mother’s Day I can think of no better book to recommend than this, which I’ve been reading one-handed during long nights of newborn feeds. A brilliant dissection of how becoming a mother profoundly changes a person & all the ways society lets them down. A must-read whether you’re a mother or not

“Matrescence” by Lucy Jones on a kindle, and a dry gin martini with a twist

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Welcome home beautiful Baby Daniel, welcome back delicious proper champagne. Reading material for stellar big brother Ben. Book: Scholastic Drink: Foxey’s Hangout Brut Sparkling White

Book “I am a Big Brother!” with a bottle & glass of Foxey’s Hangout champagne and the cutest newborn baby in the world.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Also for this reason I am begging. I do not want to see that horrible man’s face.

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Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

One month to go til the birth of my second child, figured I should brush up on some motherhood tips. Book: @vintagebooks.bsky.social Drink: 凍檸茶

“Nightbitch” by Rachel Yoder on a kindle with a HK style ice lemon tea.

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