We teamed up with partners Wordscape to bring you “Women in Translation Book Club (WiT LPL)”, a Liverpool-based online book club celebrating women’s voices in global literature. Launching in July – for August’s International Women in Translation Month – the book club will spotlight one book per day throughout the month, each written by a female author or translated by a female translator. Short, engaging recommendations in the style of a trusted bookseller will sit alongside a weekly ‘In Conversation with’ feature, bringing together authors, translators and readers who move between languages for a living or for love.

The campaign lives online but reaches into the real world too, designed to build audiences for face-to-face events in 2027. As well as social media posts and blogs exploring what it means to read – or think – in more than one language, we’ll be setting books free: leaving translated titles on trains, ferries and in cafés across the city region, each carrying the book club’s details as an invitation to join in and share.

A big thanks goes to our funders Kindred

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Do you want to get involved? Great! Get in touch ASAP, for instance with a book recommendation: your favourite book by a woman, translated from another language into English. All we need is the author’s name, the title of the book and a few sentences why this book is so special to you.