Small Stations Press

08/04/2024

Our bestsellers worldwide during 2023 - from the Rexurdimento to the present day through poetry, the Spanish Civil War, the supernatural, and a feminist take on the Frankenstein myth!

04/04/2024

Our bestsellers in the US during 2023 - Rosalía de Castro’s two volumes of poetry that kickstarted the Galician Rexurdimento, a look at the hidden meaning of language, and what happens when Civil War invades your family!

02/04/2024

Our bestsellers in the UK during 2023 - a book on the spiritual content of language, a book of poems on the human condition, a book of stories on lost love (winner of the Spanish National Book Award in 2008), and a book of snapshots of Bucharest at the turn of the century!

06/10/2023

Our books, up to and including “I Love You Leo A. Arrivals Terminal…?”, are designed by Yana Levieva. From “Stones Of Ithaca” onwards, our English books are designed by Kapka Kaneva, Grigor Grigorov and Maria Stoeva, and our Bulgarian titles by Ivo Rafailov. For a full list of our publications, please visit our website, www.smallstations.com.

05/10/2023

Boletín #7 -

30/07/2023

Small Stations also publishes in Bulgarian - 47 titles of mostly Bulgarian and European contemporary poetry, but also fiction and essay, most recently “Things” (“Неща”) by Castelao. More info in our album “Book Covers”.

28/07/2023

Coming out this autumn! 5 new Galician titles in English: www.smallstations.com.

24/07/2023

We don’t know how, but some of our titles are available on Amazon in the US at knock-down prices – excellent authors such as Abel Tomé, Ma**ca Campo, Pedro Feijoo… Go here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%22small+stations+press%22&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

The same can be said of other Amazon sites. Amazon in the UK (including Rosa Aneiros, a real favourite):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=%22small+stations+press%22&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

Amazon in Spain (An Alfaya, Claudio Rodríguez Fer…):
https://www.amazon.es/s?k=%22small+stations+press%22&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

Online shopping from a great selection at Books Store.

03/07/2023

Small Stations continues its line of Galician books in Bulgarian with the publication today of the second most important book of the history of Galician literature: “Things” (“Neshta”), vignettes of Galician life, text and drawings by Castelao, in a translation by Tsvetanka Elenkova, who also translated the foundational book of modern Galician literature, “Galician Songs” by Rosalía de Castro. The book has a foreword by the specialist Liliana Tabakova and the excellent design is by Ivo Rafailov.

18/04/2023

A tower of Galician fiction. The 61 titles of Galician fiction published in English by Small Stations Press between 2011 and 2022:

www.smallstations.com/fiction
www.smallstations.com/wave
www.smallstations.com/classics

05/04/2023

Our five bestsellers in 2022!

Quite a range of source languages (English, Galician, Spanish) and genres (fiction, poetry, essay), I’m pleased to say… though all of these books are published by Small Stations in English.

For more info on these and other titles, please go to our website: www.smallstations.com.

20/02/2023

More authors are being added on a weekly basis to our new undertaking, the website “Galician Reader”, www.galicianreader.com, which has bilingual excerpts from the books we have published. Check it out!

Galician at the touch of a button

10/02/2023

Galician Reader - https://mailchi.mp/f3392b794060/galician-reader

23/12/2022

Poet James Ramsay read some poems in Holt parish church on 22 November, the feast of St Cecilia, to celebrate the launch of his new collection MONUMENTS TO A STOLEN REVOLUTION & OTHER POEMS FROM BUCHAREST, which is published by Small Stations:

https://www.smallstations.com/book/monuments

The poems reflect on the time he spent as an Anglican chaplain in Bucharest, Romania, shortly after the changes. The reading was accompanied by an exhibition of paintings by his wife, Celia Ward, who also illustrated the book.

16/12/2022

Our 2023 catalogue is now available -- https://www.smallstations.com/catalogue -- with a range of 82 titles of fiction, young adult fiction, poetry, and essay in English.

This year sees new titles by An Alfaya, Rosa Aneiros, Ma**ca Campo, Jonathan Dunne, Karen Harrison, Emma Pedreira, James Ramsay, Claudio Rodríguez Fer, Abel Tomé, and Xelís de Toro!

HAPPY READING!! 🎄 ☃️

Small Stations Press publishes mainly Galician literature in English

11/10/2022

Boletín #6 -

03/10/2022

On the importance of the word “believe” in the Gospels – and on the meaning that is contained in the word itself (“belly”, “Eve”).

This video is part of a course by Jonathan Dunne called “Theological English”. The full playlist is available on Vimeo and YouTube, https://vimeo.com/showcase/9813519 and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDU8TJywyZnDqJ9jjhzSysuc0_eIp0UI.

08/09/2022

SMALL STATIONS PRESS comprácese en anunciar que o seu título MEMOIRS OF A VILLAGE BOY (MEMORIAS DUN NENO LABREGO) en tradución ao inglés do profesor de Oxford John Rutherford está entre os finalistas do premio de tradución SPAIN-USA FOUNDATION TRANSLATION AWARD, cuxos membros do xurado son Peter Bush, Kevin Gerry Dunn e Amaia Gabantxo:
https://www.smallstations.com/book/village-boy

Expresamos a nosa gratitude aos membros do xurado e ás organizadoras do premio. Este é o clásico galego por excelencia, un “bestseller” da literatura galega xunto con títulos como O LAPIS DO CARPINTEIRO de Manuel Rivas e CARTAS DE INVERNO de Agustín Fernández Paz. Saíu na nosa colección Galician Classics. Esta colección recibiu o apoio do goberno autónomo galego, a Xunta de Galicia, entre 2011 e 2017. Ese apoio foi retirado, subliñando as case imposibles circunstancias nas que as tradutoras literarias e editoras de literatura traducida se ven obrigadas a traballar.

Os outros títulos finalistas son:

“Above the Rain” de Víctor del Árbol (tradutora Lisa Dillman, editora Other Press)
https://otherpress.com/product/above-the-rain-9781635429954/
“The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpí, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia” de Max Besora (tradutora Mara Faye Lethem, editora Open Letter)
https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/the-adventures-and-misadventures-of-the-extraordinary-and-admirable-joan-orpi-conquistador-and-founder-of-new-catalonia
“Among the Hedges” de Sara Mesa (tradutora Megan McDowell, editora Open Letter)
https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/among-the-hedges
“Cremation” de Rafael Chirbes (tradutora Valerie Miles, editora New Directions)
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/cremation/

Os nosos parabéns a todas as falantes de linguas minoritarias, editoras, redactoras, deseñadoras, distribuidoras, libreiras, lectoras, tradutoras e escritoras implicadas!!

08/09/2022

SMALL STATIONS PRESS is delighted to announce that its title MEMOIRS OF A VILLAGE BOY by Xosé Neira Vilas in Oxford professor John Rutherford’s English translation has been shortlisted for the inaugural SPAIN-USA FOUNDATION TRANSLATION AWARD, being judged this year by Peter Bush, Kevin Gerry Dunn and Amaia Gabantxo:
https://www.smallstations.com/book/village-boy

We would like to express our gratitude to the judges and organizers of this prize. This is THE Galician classic, a bestseller of Galician literature along with titles like THE CARPENTER’S PENCIL by Manuel Rivas and WINTER LETTERS by Agustín Fernández Paz. It came out as part of our Galician Classics series. This series received the support of the Galician regional government, the Xunta de Galicia, between 2011 and 2017. That support has now been withdrawn, emphasizing the almost impossible circumstances in which literary translators and publishers of translated literature are required to work.

The other shortlisted titles are:

“Above the Rain” by Víctor del Árbol (translator Lisa Dillman, publisher Other Press)
https://otherpress.com/product/above-the-rain-9781635429954/
“The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpí, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia” by Max Besora (translator Mara Faye Lethem, publisher Open Letter)
https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/the-adventures-and-misadventures-of-the-extraordinary-and-admirable-joan-orpi-conquistador-and-founder-of-new-catalonia
“Among the Hedges” by Sara Mesa (translator Megan McDowell, publisher Open Letter)
https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/among-the-hedges
“Cremation” by Rafael Chirbes (translator Valerie Miles, publisher New Directions)
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/cremation/

Congratulations to all the speakers of minority languages, publishers, editors, designers, distributors, booksellers, readers, translators and writers involved!!

01/09/2022

01/09/2022

Jonathan Dunne looks at paradox in language as an indicator of truth.

This video is part of his course on YouTube “Theological English”. The full playlist is available at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDU8TJywyZnDqJ9jjhzSysuc0_eIp0UI.

16/08/2022

Forthcoming from Small Stations Press:

RESISTANCE by Rosa Aneiros

Rosa Aneiros’ novel “Resistance” is an epic of contemporary Galician literature that follows the fortunes of two very different people during the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime in Portugal under António Salazar and Marcello Caetano that lasted from 1933 to 1974. Dinis Cardoso is a glass-factory worker from a small fishing village on Portugal’s west coast, São Pedro de Moel. He will be conscripted for the Colonial War in Mozambique. An attempt to stand up for workers’ rights will land him in the infamous Peniche political prison. Filipa Rodrigues is a privileged girl growing up in Coimbra. Her father, Rui Rodrigues, is a successful importer of goods who has made his own fortune. He leans politically towards the right, but his daughter’s activities in the resistance will force the family to flee to Brazil. Sometimes events take precedence over our own wishes – our paths diverge, seemingly never to meet again – and memories are like the breakers on São Pedro de Moel beach, pulled under and out to sea. The novel examines political events in Portugal during the twentieth century, and the influence these events had on ordinary people, in a way that is strikingly reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.

Book design by Kapka Kaneva!

https://www.smallstations.com/book/resistance

16/08/2022

Forthcoming from Small Stations Press:

NIGHT OF THE CROW by Abel Tomé

The island of Gothard is a law unto itself. Separated from the mainland by a long bridge, it has its own chancellor and popular jury. The island is run by two powerful families, the Faols (who own the silver mine) and the Cárthaigs (who own the bank). Decisions are taken by popular vote in the main square, Wolf Tongue. But when the schoolteacher and his family turn up dead in the house next to the lighthouse, Beth police force is called to the scene. The inspector in charge of the case is Gonçalves. He lives in Beth, a city that has two faces according to how much money you have, though he originally hails from Galataz in the north of the country. He is haunted by the memory of his wife, Anne Marie. The other officers on the case are Pietre, a s*x addict who smokes too much, and Lúa, whose father suffers from Alzheimer’s and whose great-grandfather was from the island. Aidan Faol, the chancellor, doesn’t take kindly to outside interference, and Gonçalves will need to have all his wits about him if he is to get to the truth of why the schoolteacher and his family were murdered. This will involve unearthing some dirty secrets about the island itself and will force Gonçalves to confront his own past in one of the best crime novels to have come out of Galicia in the last twenty years.

Book design by Kapka Kaneva; cover artwork “A Crow” (Anonymous, Italian, 17th century) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York!

https://www.smallstations.com/book/crow

10/08/2022

Forthcoming from Small Stations Press:

INVISIBLE BODIES by Emma Pedreira

“Culture is everything that is left as a residue once we have forgotten all the books we’ve read.”

In the Romantic era, Prometheus, the Titan god of fire who stole fire from the gods, gave it to humanity and was sentenced to having his liver gobbled up by an eagle every day, represented the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy. For this reason Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” bore the subtitle “The Modern Prometheus”, an experiment gone wrong. In this novel by Emma Pedreira, one of the heroines is Promethea Stoner, a wealthy woman who is confined to a wheelchair and is feared by the local children. Legends about her abound: that she was abandoned at the altar by a husband who strangled himself to death by tying his bow tie too tight; that she embalmed her parents and put them in a cupboard in the basement of Stoner House. The other heroine is a poor girl, Loretta Count, who is used to deceptions, since custom dictates as a girl she cannot wear trousers, climb trees or give ill-mannered shrimps a beating. She works as a machinist at the local thread and fabric factory, FitzmonguerCorp, where she is harassed by Vulture, one of the foremen. Despite their differing circumstances, Promethea Stoner and Loretta Count (or “L. C.”, as she lets herself be known) find they have something in common: a determination to free themselves from the Victorian constraints in which they live.

Book design by Kapka Kaneva!

https://www.smallstations.com/book/bodies

10/08/2022

Forthcoming from Small Stations Press:

SOLITUDE ISLAND by An Alfaya

“I feel life is a fraud, and I don’t know who to complain to, or even what to complain about. I am sitting on an island, my bum on the sand and my legs and feet in the salty water… I am an island. We are all islands in this sea of uncertainties.”

The narrative of SOLITUDE ISLAND coincides with a train journey an eighteen-year-old, Lucía, is taking from the port city in Galicia where she grew up to the city where she is going to study for a degree in journalism. Interspersed throughout the narrative are excerpts from a diary, “Autumn Diary”, written by a tramp who used to live in the square, Matchstick Square, outside the sandwich bar run by Lucía’s parents. Lucía is curious about the tramps’ lives, she observes them from her attic window. The tramps know this, and this is why they have nicknamed her Nosy. The author of the diary is Mara Ribera, but she prefers the name Solitude, or simply Lonely. She has lost the love of her life, Jean Barnard, a French sculptor who was responsible for the statue of a matchstick seller in the centre of the square. We are introduced to some of the other “islands” in the square – Cosme, who rejected the family business in order to pursue his vocation as an artist; Marcelino, a blind violinist; some rougher types like Zacarías, a legendary tramp turned criminal, Grimaldi and Pinta… At the first stop on Lucía’s journey, a young man boards the train. Lucía will end up feeling the need to share with him all her experiences, her burning desire to pay attention to the plight of those less fortunate than herself and to redress the balance.

Book design by the wonderful Kapka Kaneva!

https://www.smallstations.com/book/solitude

09/08/2022

Our publication “When There’s a Knock on the Door at Night”, a collection of four stories by the Galician writer Xabier P. DoCampo, which won the Spanish National Book Award in 1995, has just been named an “Extraordinary Book” at this year’s Berlin International Literature Festival. It joins other publications such as “Momo”, “Watership Down”, “Skellig” and “Treasure Island” on the list of extraordinary books recommended by the festival judges.

I cannot help feeling that the author would have been pleased that there were people who valued his storytelling. The design of the book in English is by the late Yana Levieva – who, as it happened, gave this as her favourite book of Galician literature! So, worth a read… 😃

More info at: https://www.smallstations.com/book/knock

27/07/2022

A unique look at the alphabet, and what words have to tell us about the creation of the world. Join Jonathan for his course on the spiritual content of language, “Theological English”, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDU8TJywyZnDqJ9jjhzSysuc0_eIp0UI.

16/03/2022

Susana Sanches Arins’ book “and they say”, translated into English by Kathleen March, features four times in the online magazine “Words Without Borders” – first with an excerpt from the book in the March 2021 issue of the magazine, then in Tobias Carroll’s Watchlist for November 2021, then in an article published before Christmas, “7 New Voices in English Translation to Read Now”, and most recently in “9 Writers to Read on International Mother Language Day”. The unusual prose and fluid translation clearly impressed! 😀

Small Stations Press publishes mainly Galician literature in English

12/03/2022

An intro to our work at Small Stations Press by director Jonathan Dunne! More info at https://www.smallstations.com/