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  • Translation news

    Translation news

    A few words or phrases I’ve not yet blogged about but are in the translation pipeline… egg salad = egg mayonnaise why I can’t say mayo hooking up consignment sales and charity shops cream, but not as we knew i

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  • Review request

    Review request

    Happy today to be asked to review The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri for the Historical Novel Society. I read about it for my article for the HNS on the Booker Longlist. Also, I’ve just seen it has a very different cover (and much less attractive!) on Amazon.com than on Amazon.co.uk. With my Transatlantic Translator hat on, I…

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