Welcome to our first Canadian edition of the newsletter. I'm currently in Victoria, BC, but next week it will likely be coming from Joliette, QC! In short, I'm all over the place, but everything here is increasingly autumnal and I just hope that when I return home to Bath, there's some of it left there too—there is nothing better than an early mist-rising October morning amongst the Georgian honey-stone buildings. I suppose Canadian trees can compete:
THINGS THAT HAPPENED ON THE BLOG THIS WEEK:
The everlasting words of Nabokov, words and a picture, and a glimpse of the rainy British Colombia. This morning I went for a very blustery run down on the Dallas Road Waterfront Trail, forgetting that I was in Canada, forgetting that I had jetlag, and forgetting that everybody else was doing the same thing; undeterred by the rain and the impending storm and the cold, the Canadians go about their day without even stopping to consider an umbrella. It was, therefore, an unexpectedly sociable affair.
BOOK-RELATED NEWS:
The Illustrated Book of Sayings will soon be published in Japan! By soon, I mean in two days. This is mad-exciting, and I hope very much to visit this country soon because they all just seem far too nice. (I'll especially visit if the flight time is considerably less than it was to Canada.) In the description on their website, the publisher describe my first book, Lost in Translation, as a 'global best-seller' which is ridiculous because nobody has told me this before. The image below is their new cover design, which they created using pieces of the new illustrations to sort-of-match the first one. Bookshelf siblings!
In other book news, the Italians are also publishing their version of the new book before Christmas, so pretty much everyone is sorted. And somewhere at some point, Spanish and German translations (ha!) of Lost in Translation will grace us with their presence.
BRIEFLY:
This Dutch expression from The Illustrated Book of Sayings very accurately depicts what it was like this morning out next to the North Pacific. I was the pelican in this scenario—it's entirely possible that half of me was several hundred feet behind the other part.
The end.
I realise that while I have successfully (shockingly) created this newsletter in time for it to be sent out at 4pm here, it will appear at a thoroughly confusing and unexpected time for everybody else, and this is unfortunately a downside of having an across-planet newsletter.
I hope y'all are keeping warm and snug if you're in the Northern hemisphere, and if you're still basking in sun, send some of it up here please.
Farewell, see you next sometime.
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