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Imprint: Renard Press
ISBN: 9781804472330
Paperback • 144pp • £15
129 mm x 198 mm
01/05/27
Thema: FYB, FYT, FUP

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In Other Words (Renard Press Edition)

Stories from Life

Ann Morgan

Translated by Anonymous

Introduction by Fenella Overlord

ISBN: 9781804472330
Paperback • 144pp
Published 1 May 2027

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A mischievous collection of short stories ‘translated’ from the obscure (and fictional) European language of Ŝerci by a maverick translator with a questionable grasp of his rights and responsibilities, and introduced by national treasure and celebrity authoress Fenella Overlord (who has strong views on internationalism, wokeism and Englishness), In Other Words dramatises what happens when the writer-reader relationship is disrupted by outside influences.

The Internet gets requisitioned for national security, a book reviewer discovers the issue with women’s writing, and the cream tea becomes a barometer of Britishness, but beneath all this a drama unfolds in the reader’s responses, leaving them uncertain who to trust. Building on questions around translation and reading across cultures explored in her non-fiction works, Morgan’s debut short-story collection asks what happens when we know a text has been interfered with – and how biased criticism can slant the way we read.

Irreverent and satirical, In Other Words pokes fun at some of the problems in the way we move stories between worlds and plays with how much we can know about what’s been done to words when we meet them in a book.

About the author

Ann Morgan is an author, speaker and editor based in Folkestone. Ann’s writing has been published widely, including in the Guardian, Independent, Sunday Times and Financial Times, and by the BBC. In 2012, she set herself the challenge of reading a book from every country in a year – a project that led to a TED talk and to the non-fiction book Reading the World: How I Read a Book from Every Country. Her debut novel, Beside Myself, has been translated into eight languages. Crossing Over, her latest novel, draws on her experience living just a few minutes from where a number of the small boats crossing the Channel land. She is Literary Explorer in Residence of the Cheltenham Literature Festival and produces the Royal Literary Fund’s Collected podcast.

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In Other Words

A mischievous collection of short stories ‘translated’ from the obscure (and fictional) European language of Ŝerci by a maverick translator with a questionable grasp of his rights and responsibilities, and introduced by national treasure and celebrity authoress Fenella Overlord (who has strong views on internationalism, wokeism and Englishness), In Other Words dramatises what happens when the writer-reader relationship is disrupted by outside influences.

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