The Descent of the Lyre in Bulgarian

This is just a very quick post to say that I’m delighted to have signed a contract with Enthusiast publishing house in Bulgaria for a Bulgarian translation of my novel, The Descent of the Lyre. The Bulgarian version will be coming out some time in the next eighteen months. It feels particularly significant for me personally because, whilst I was writing the book, I was aiming to write something about a world very different from my own, but in a way that would be sufficiently convincing for Bulgarian readers; and back then, I remember thinking to myself that if it made it into a Bulgarian translation, I could be confident that I had not done too bad a job of that perilous business of straying into other people’s histories and myths. I’ll post more here when the book appears in Bulgarian.

On a related note, for those visitors to this website who are down in London, tomorrow evening (15th February) I’m doing an evening event where I’ll be talking about and reading from the book, as well as playing music for classical guitar, down at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute. There’s more information here.