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      • AlFulk Translation and Publishing

        AlFulk Translation & Publishing: An independent publishing house, launched in October 2015 and based in Abu Dhabi. It specialisation is translating children and young adult literature from different languages into Arabic. AlFulk aims for:1. To enrich the Arabic library with diverse cultural collections, in order to aware the readers of the intercultural communication importance. 2. To establish a reading habits base for children from 0-4.3. To increase the level of YA books -both Fantasy, fiction and non-fiction- in terms of their content and illustrations.As the majority in the publishing industry, we have been affected by COVID-19 epidemic. However, we have decided to participate at Frankfurter Buchmesse this year to look at what is new in the industry and to expand our network. We seek long term partnerships.

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      • Literature Translation Institute of Korea

        LTI Korea is a government-affiliated organization that aims to disseminate Korean culture and literature throughout the world in line with the government’s efforts to shape Korean literature in the world culture.  website: https://www.ltikorea.or.kr/en/main.do  Korean Literature Now(literary magazine): https://www.ltikorea.or.kr/en/board/kln_en/boardList.do

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      • Historical fiction
        June 2021

        The Admiral's Baths

        by Dana Gynther

        The Admiral’s Baths is composed of four inter-connected stories, each told from the perspective of a different woman in her own time period.  The story opens as a contemporary historian conducts research at the baths, making discoveries which lead us back in time. History unfolds through the stories of the struggles, desires, tragedies, and triumphs of these four protagonists. Although they are separated by hundreds of years, we find that what connects them is more powerful than the passage of time. The Admiral’s Baths (102,300 words) revolves around an actual monument in Valencia, Spain, a medieval public bathhouse which was open for nearly seven centuries and is now a museum.  Some years ago, I translated several articles about the monument, covering its history, owners, architecture, and restoration. I became fascinated with the subject, and was particularly struck by its longevity. The Baths’ long history became an integral part of the story; instead of choosing one moment in the Baths’ – and Spain’s—history, I chose four: the 14th, 16th, and 19th centuries as well as the 21st.

      • Humour

        Hard Abroad

        by Andy Frazier

        Trevor Hard – Try to his friends – likes to think he is just an ordinary chap. Yes he does have a few quirky rules about threes, and OK, he hears voices in his head, but besides that, his life is pretty uneventful as a civil servant. The problem for him is women or, to be more precise, the lack of them. After taking advice from a friend, Try sets off on a holiday to France for some cherchez la femme but pretty soon he realises he is being followed and from then on, things start to get a little difficult. Being chased by the police is one thing, but being pinned down by a sex-mad dog and its owner whilst trying to impress the most beautiful girl in the world is perhaps one challenge too many?

      • Crime & mystery
        June 2009

        Dixie Divas

        by Virginia Brown

        "You found my philandering ex-husband?" Bitty asked. "Where? Mexico? Paris? In Tupelo with a cocktail waitress?" "In your closet," I answered. "Dead." Break out the hoop skirts and the zinfandel. The Divas are on the case. Wine. Chocolate. Transvestite strippers. Just another good-time get-together for the Dixie Divas of historic Holly Springs, Mississippi, where moonlight and magnolias mingle with delicious small-town scandal. But Eureka "Trinket" Truevine, the newest Diva, gets more than she bargained for when she finds her best Diva girlfriend Bitty Hollandale's ex-husband in Bitty's hall closet. He's dead. Very dead. Now Trinket and the Divas have to help Bitty finger the murderer and clear her name. Virginia Brown is the nationally acclaimed, award-winning author of fifty novels.

      • Autobiography: general

        My Mother Wore a Yellow Dress

        by Christina. McKenna

        'I learned about conflict from my parents.' So begins Christina McKenna's haunting memoir of her lonely early life. Recounting scenes from her childhood in Ulster, she paints a memorable and poignant picture of violence and oppression with her brutal father and protective mother, whose retalliation to her husband's meaness came in the form of a secret yellow dress. Her formative years and her foray into the world, which begin with the daily trudge to and from school, are peopled by a troupe of bizarre and unforgettable characters dancing in and out of her life, filling her with awe and wonder. Among them are Miss McKeague, a gentle, calm and graceful religious zealot, Great Aunt Rose, the 'Yankees', Norrie the transvestite and, in the wings, her stern, unyielding uncles, each vying for the ancestral money and land to the exclusion of all else. At age eleven, she experiences a frightening supernatural occurrence, a prolonged haunting that confirms for her the reality of the spirit world. Though it affects her deeply, she later learns to channel her confusion into twin artistic passions: poetry and painting.;The discordant nature of Christina McKenna's young life, and the feelings of inferiority it bred, lead her to examine all the limiting belief systems she grew up with, and question the validity of the hidebound Catholicism of her childhood. This is a rite-of-passage account of two generations of Irish women, told with great humour and compassion. On the one hand is the writer; on the other the heroic mother who showed her love as best she could. McKenna concludes that our past, no matter how painful, need not keep us bound - once we choose love over hate. That choice, she suggests, will set us free.

      • Humour
        October 2012

        Never Mind the Botox

        by Mitch Stansbury

        We, four suburban forty-somethings, had all but ignored live music, proper live music, for twenty years - The Banshees, Buzzcocks and The Smiths happened so long ago that they might have been in a different life. Live music now was a mum from Doncaster pretending to be the blonde one from Abba, and we needed help. Thankfully, it came, as our children found indie-rock, and demanded to see it up close. A night at Wembley with The Killers kick-started a five year odyssey of seventy nights, a hundred bands, and all of this – Superheroes in spandex, Viking Metallers in a strip-club, cross-dressing sax players, foam-parties, typewriter solos, half-eaten birds, demented babysitters, homicidal ticket-touts, terrifying body-art, the world’s laziest roadie, and of course, some dad-dancing. We’ve met an 80’s legend playing drums in a punk covers band, and been stalked by a masked man in a gay night-club. We’ve been derailed by the Pope, and insulted by a singer who then bought us all a drink, and even, briefly, had rock stars’ arse in our hands. Well, in my hands. Fleeting it may have been, but he hasn’t called, or even sent a text. Never Mind the Botox is a journey of mild, middle-aged rebellion, as once or twice a month, we try not to stand out in a crowd thirty years younger - we usually fail. Sometimes the children keep us company, others we leave them at home, but there is always, along the way, some fun to be had. And so what if we can’t hear the next morning. Old-people need rock’n’roll too.

      • April 2021

        Still Not Better

        by Arnaud Le Guilcher

        After the success of his first two novels, Not So Good and Not Better, Arnaud Le Guilcher returns to his disenchanted hero, a magnificent loser, in this hilarious and surreal poetic comedy that questions blood ties and our connection to the world.   Our (anti-)hero is a Frenchman exiled in the middle of nowhere in the US. Right after his wife leaves him, taking with her their two-year-old daughter but leaving behind their teenage goth hacker son, he gets a call from a notary. His grandfather, who he thought was already dead, has actually just hit the hay and a mysterious inheritance awaits him in the French alps.Accompanied by his best friend and his Satanist son, he makes his way to Saint Colombard des Izands, a picturesque village nestled at the foot of the Savoy mountains. There, he will discover that the contents of his inheritance smell like forgotten goat cheese: he is now the head of “Cabri au Lait,” a cheese production company on the edge of collapse. Nothing has been going well since wolves in the area decimated all the local sheep. The notary also tells him about his grandfather’s past. Completely unbeknownst to our hero, his grandpa was a former Nazi collaborator who took refuge in South America, then founded the cheese company on his return to France. And in his fascist grandpa’s gloomy alpine manor, among all the Inca statues, dictator get-ups, and bottled vintages, he finds an incredible strongroom full of video surveillance screens. Between 2 or 3 sheep sabotages and a few confrontations with enraged wolves, our hero finds himself with an unexpected chance at finding his wife and daughter. Joined by his transvestite half-brother, devastated by the absence of his wife and daughter, mortified by the revelations of his family tree, always followed closely by the strong desire to drink, but full of the best intentions in the world, will our fortuitous adopted Yankee change things for the better? Certainly. Because as Nietzsche could well have said at a dinner party, “When absurdity doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger."

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        Fever

        The Universe of Berlin, 1930-1933

        by Peter Walther

        Berlin in 1930 is the glittering metropolis of the new Europe, faster and freer than the continent’s other capitals. Nowhere else do wastefulness and misery live in such close proximity. While Communists and Nazis fight their bloody brawls and Dorothy Thompson interviews Hitler, the Jewish clairvoyant Erik Jan Hanussen invites the leadership of the Berlin SA onto his luxury yacht, the »Ursel IV«, for a weekend trip. Maud von Ossietzky, worried about her husband Carl, increasingly turns to alcohol for comfort, and Ernst Thälmann, chair of the Communist party, finds solace in his lovers. Heinrich Brüning, still chancellor of the German Reich, plays a board game with his goddaughter on the evening of his dismissal. In the end, it all comes down to one question: will there be a »Third Reich«? Featuring trenchant, powerful portraits of figures such as Heinrich Brüning, Erik Jan Hanussen, Maud von Ossietzsky, Ernst Thälmann and Dorothy Thompson.

      • Poetry by individual poets
        May 2011

        Edge Effect

        Trails and Portrayals

        by Sandra McPherson

        Constructed in two parts, this collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of natural history and artistic discoveries of self-taught folk artists.

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