Getting Out and About This August 2025

Posted: September 7th, 2025 | No Comments »

I spend most of my time at a desk or in the library, in China or London researching… but August was a great time to get out and about….

The Edinburgh International Book Festival was, as ever, a blast. Thanks to Isabel Hilton who moderated so charmingly as well as Jenny Niven and her team for making 2025 another amazing Edinburgh International Book Festival….

Travelling over the river to Battersea Power Station and the new Battersea Bookshop was also fun… and as part of Women in Translation Month. A great evening was had talking about Tie Ning’s My Sister’s Red Shirt (Sinoist Books) with Annelise Finegan, Academic Director & Clinical Associate Professor of Translation at NYU School of Professional Studies….

And a trip across to Northern Ireland and Bangor, near Belfast, for the Open House Festival was one of the most chilled and relaxed weekends at a festival for a long time….

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