FairFair: The Life Art of Translation, is a satirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful book about learning the art of translation, being a bookworker in the publishing industry, growing up, family, and class. Loosely set in an imagined book fair art fair fun fair, in which every stall or ride imitates a real world scenario or dilemma which must be observed and negotiated, the book moves between personal memories and larger questions about the role of

war rages in Europe

moving with ease through the earthy

During the tumult of 1968

Set largely in the blustery yet desolate expanses of a coastal landscape

have excelled themselves

And letters from Ghassan Kanafani to Denys Johnson-Davies

Feminist writers come together to respond to the crisis of 2020 in this unique collection of essays

Bouquets on the grave of Sargon Boulus

the best of Víctor Jara’s lyrics

grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s

to fill in

Ruth Fainlight - who offers us new translations of the important Mexican poet Victor Manuel Mendiola