Spotlights
Akoya in conversation with Sine Plambech
Akoya’s Managing Editor, Hannah Boursnell, interviews Sine Plambech about her new book Global Sex. The first photograph in Global Sex is of a towering pile of the notebooks you use to record...
Akoya spotlight on Wales
Every year, thousands of readers make the pilgrimage to a small town on the Welsh borders for the Hay Festival. Set within the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park on the banks...
Akoya in conversation with Morgan Day
Akoya’s Marketing and Publicity Director, Ruth Waldram, caught up with Morgan Day about her debut novel The Oldest Bitch Alive. Congratulations on such a bold, inventive and just plain enjoyable novel....
Akoya in conversation with Husam Maarouf from Gaza Publications
In Book of Wills, eighteen Gazan writers share their last will and testament. Compiled by Reem Ghanayem, the collection is a profound exploration of the written word as an act...
Akoya spotlight on Sheffield
Perhaps better known for its music, green spaces and industrial heritage, you might not know that Sheffield is a treat for book lovers too. The so-called Steel City is home...
Akoya spotlight on Spain
To celebrate the upcoming publication of Marta Sanz’s My Clavicle: And Other Massive Misalignments – translated from the Spanish by Katie King – Akoya spotlights five independent bookshops in Spain. ...
Katie King on Women in Translation Month
As Women in Translation Month draws to an end, Katie King – the translator of Marta Sanz’s My Clavicle – reflects on the significance of this annual celebration: ‘Women in...