CATEGORY: Young Adult
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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Happy Halloween! Things We Say in the Dark
‘She needed to be able to touch the sides of her world. Everything was so vast and she felt that her …
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‘It is a day to think twice about the colour of your footwear, nail varnish, contact lens.’
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Translation as Conversation: Turning Together
‘As a translator, you are constantly practising this art of conversation by not imposing your own th …
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‘To my mind, whisky is a drink of dreams and it makes me smile from my heart.’
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Time for the Dead by Lin Anderson
‘I specialize in hidden and buried bodies, remember?’
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Translation as Conversation: Alastair Reid
‘When I look back on the whole business of translating, now that I have left it behind…I realise t …
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