Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 24/08/2026135. Il était une fois l’escalade by Catherine Destivelle, David Chambre, Laurent Bidot and Clémence Jollois 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Premier de cordée 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 24/08/2026134. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 So it goes 130
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I don’t know what a persona is (in this context). Field: governmental translation - legal, admin, technical, policy. 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 31/07/2026133. La Liste d’Orwell by Carlos Hernandez, translated from Spanish to French and adapted by Jean-Paul Moulin 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 Claimed by all 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 12/07/2026132. Classics: a Very Short Introduction by Mary Beard and John Henderson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Ego in Arcadia 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 07/07/2026131. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Saw it coming 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I doubt most people from Oldham or Stockport call themselves Mancunians. People from Bolton certainly don’t. 010
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 28/06/2026130. Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘 A familiar landscape 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 05/06/2026129. Palestine by Joe Sacco 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Tragically vivid sojourn 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 28/05/2026128. Odsunuté děti by Marek Toman, Jan Blažek, Jakub Bachorík, Magdalena Rutová, Stanislav Setinský, Františka Loubat and Jindřich Janíček 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Forgetting and remembering 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 25/04/2026127. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 First of many 120
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Is it the only translation? Is there an Irish/British English one? 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 15/04/2026126. Playground by Richard Powers 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 Depths beautifully captured 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 07/03/2026125. Climbers by M. John Harrison 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Top-out took ages 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 04/03/2026124. L’anniversaire de Kim Jong-il by Aurélien Ducoudray and Mélanie Allag 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 True story, mostly? 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 04/03/2026123. Nottingham, tome 2: La Traque by Vincent Brugeas, Emmanuel Herzet, Benoît Dellac and Denis Bechu 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘 An unlikely alliance 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 10/02/2026122. Όμορφα παραμύθια με ζώα by Αίσωπος, illustrated by Sergio Cavina 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Fabulously drawn fables 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I’ve noticed people using this formulation a lot recently and Keir Starmer on Peter Mandelson is just the latest and most noticeable yet. If the prime minister says it, can it be wrong? Is the past perfect tense dying out? 2/2 120
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 04/02/2026‘If knew then what I do now, he would never have been anywhere near government.’ That’s grammatically incorrect, isn’t it? When I was teaching English as a foreign language I’d have corrected that a hundred times out of a hundred to ‘If I *had known* then what I do now…’. 1/2 140
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026121. Ανώνυμος ο Αθηναίος: στη σκιά της Ακρόπολης by Κωνσταντίνος Σκλαβενίτης 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘 Who was he? 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 20/01/2026120. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Deepest darkest Saxony 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 14/01/2026119. Atomic Albion by Tom Bolton 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 Hidden legacy hunting 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 01/01/20262025 reading: 52 books; made my target of one a week by a whisker. 27 fiction, 23 non-fiction, 2 poetry. 19 not in English: 5 in CS, 5 FR, 4 EL, 3 PL, 1 HU, 1 UK. 16 by or translated by women. 15 graphic novels. 5 in translation: 1 each from DE, CY, PL, ES and KR. Reviews: bsky.app/profile/paul... 010
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 31/12/2025117. Nonstop Eufrat by Veronika Bendová 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘 Mysterious texting ways 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 31/12/2025116. Ρεμπέτικο Νοτούρνο by Περικλής Κουλιφέτης 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 No one wins 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 31/12/2025115. Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 What a character 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 31/12/2025115. Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 What a character 010
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 29/12/2025114. Faith by Joanna Trollope 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Bookstore her way 210
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 26/12/2025112. The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 Master tackles hindutva 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Until seeing this one I’d only seen the recent years and assumed you were presenting the best book you’d read in the year in question! 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Thank you for this one. I’m deep into climbing but hadn’t come across it. 100
Reposted by Paul KayeBritish Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Exciting news! 📣 We are delighted to announce the workshop strands for the BCLT Literary Translation Summer School 2026. Next year’s Summer School will take place online from Monday 20 July – Friday 24 July 2026. Bursaries are available. Find out more and apply: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... 066
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 15/12/2025111. L’Arabe du futur, tome 1: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1985-1987), by Riad Sattouf 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 More Tintin influence 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 15/12/2025I love creative street art and graffiti (and Portugal has lots of good examples) but that’s criminal. 5462
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 14/12/2025110. Royal Robbins: the American climber by David Smart 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 Monarch of Yosemite 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 09/12/2025109. Alois Nebel by Jaroslav Rudiš (script) and Jaromír 99 (artwork) 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Beyond his station 110
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 07/12/2025108. Láska nebeská by Mariusz Szczygieł 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Czech cultural adventures 100
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 04/12/2025107. Hanging On: a life in British climbing’s golden age by Martin Boysen 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌖 Higher and higher 120
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social · 27/11/2025106. We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated from Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 Nobel documents ignobility 120