The Everyman of World lit about me and contact details

• Welcome to Winstonsdad, the home of translated fiction and started the Twitter hashtag #Translationthurs. I have been running this blog for 13  years and have reviewed over 1200  books from nearly 100 countries in a wide range of styles from Prize winners through crime novels to page-turners in translation. The blog aims to lift the veil on translated fiction to draw in everyone to reading a few more books from around the world. Knock down the walls of mystery for many readers to books in translation and hell make these books sound fun to read. So if you have books in translation that needs a review. Contact me Stuart the editor of Winstonsdad. To send me your books! I turned fifty this year and currently, work for the NHS with people that have learning disabilities on a ward helping them to get back in the community. As a colleague once said we are the nanny Mcphee’s.of care world there when you don’t think you need jus and when you don’t need us you go back to your life !!. I am  Married to my lovely wife and live in a sunny town in Derbyshire. The blog was named after the Late “MR Winston” my dog. I am just an everyman I have a low-level job I left school at sixteen after that I spent time in Germany and the north east of England before settling here I have been a care worker for the last 28 years love my job for me satisfaction has always come second to ambition helping people although hard at times is worthwhile. For this blog is a passion  I am passionate about World literature and books in general fiction opens our minds shows use what the world can do it is our escape from to the present at times in this World we live in books are more important than ever.
• Outside books I love world cinema,  visiting new places, bookshops, record shops and music, I am a small stationary fan slowly drawn into books and pens as I try and build a way to get more out of my days slowly as I am a  fan of slow living trying to make the most of our lives is important to me savour the moments we all have just passed us by and most of all spend time with my wife
• Since 2009 trying to read the world a book at a time. I’ll make them sound fun! I still try and follow my own path. I always try and pass on my own passion for books in translation. I am a believer in a world where we all have something to offer and we also need to be a little kinder to each other
• The Project is the new idea coming long term out of winstonsdad as I move near a 1500 books and then forward to two thousand books the next ten years as I see it is a book that uses various ideas to connect world lit these would be things like War, cities, post-soviet, village life, experimental to name a few I have twelve chapters over possibly two books that would interweave world lit from past to present in books around themes. The other idea connected to this would be a series of podcasts, radio shows, and interviews writers around the world connected by themes as we could jump from Europe to Latin America and even a tv show Asia in a few short steps. This Everyman guide to world lit relighting Joesph Dent the found of the everyman library series and shows that world lit is for everyone no matter how challenging we can all try and raise our bar as readers and read something outside our comfort zone. I am still working and trying to write a book I am thinking about drawing together and calling it the everyman guide to world lit I want an accessible guide to world literature a fun way to draw readers into my journey over the last 12 plus years as we see the common themes and how the world is really smaller than we think and books can interconnect. if anyone is interested in this idea of a book let me know!
• As for books I tend just to accept Translated books but will consider books outside that if they appeal on a personal level. My email is below I tend to prefer real books just never really got into reading e books I love the feel and turning of paper in my hands sorry.

contact me  via winstonsdad@live.co.uk