So, it’s already May and lovely to have some consistent blue skies and even a bit of warmth in the air. April was a busy and distinctly not cruel for us, but some sobering news from across the Channel made Eliot’s epithet seems more appropriate, as it highlighted the fragility of editorial independence and just how important a role indie presses can play in bringing brave, balanced, unbiased voices to publishing landscape.

It’s been quite a couple of months for us. First of all, translator, Antonella Lettieri and I shared the Translators’ Association First Translation Prize for our work on Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone, then we found ourselves on the longlist for the International Booker Prize with Matteo Melchiorre’s The Duke, again translated by Antonella Lettieri.