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. All during August – International Women in Translation Month – the book club recommended a book per day, each written by a female author or translated by a female translator. Weekly ‘In Conversation With’ features by women involved in reading, writing and translating and blogs on reading in more than one language rounded off the recommendations. We were delighted to see the project gaining momentum and bringing together authors, translators and readers from all across the globe who move between languages for a living or for love.

The campaign reached into the real world too: as well as social media posts and blogs exploring what it means to read – or think – in more than one language, we set a number of books free on trains, ferries and in cafés across the Liverpool city region (and even beyond!). One lucky finder got in touch with us and we’re hoping all books have found a good home and are enjoyed.

We are looking forward to doing it all again in August 2027 – adding some face-to-face activities if we can. Until then, so long!

A big thanks goes to our funders Kindred