A shiny new Love German Books blog post, catching you up on autumn book awards: to Tonio Schachinger, Clemens J. Setz, Lutz Seiler – but also some women writers. vq-books.eu/autumn-awards/

It's a really great thing, very glad it's in the world.

A new review up on our blog, of Sharon Dodua Otoo's riff on Heinrich Böll: vq-books.eu/heinrich-bol... If you fancy reviewing German books in English or other old-fashioned blogging fun, let us know.

...but we welcome guest contributions. Our first is by the wonderful translator, poet, mover & shaker Annie Rutherford, on chronic fatigue and translating Annette von Droste Hülshoff: vq-books.eu/chronic/

...or indeed this review of Teresa Präauer's novel Kochen im falschen Jahrhundert, which just won the Bremen Literature Prize... vq-books.eu/dinner-for-f...

It'll be mostly our publisher Katy Derbyshire, like this piece about this year's Frankfurt Book Fair... vq-books.eu/what-katy-di...

Hello there! We've joined Bluesky to celebrate our new blog, which you'll find on our website under the familiar tag of Love German Books: vq-books.eu/blog/