TELEGRAM
SEARCH



In this section
• 2009 New Titles
• 2010 New Titles
• About Us
• Contact
• Copyright
• Events
• News
• Order Catalogue
• Our Authors
• Our Translators
• Privacy Policy
• Radio Telegram
• Rights
• Rights Sales
• Sales
• Saqi
• Submissions
• The Al Saqi Bookshop
• This Site


Radio


We like radio. We like books. So here it is: Radio Telegram where you can hear our authors reading from their own works.

Launch Radio Telegram.

Having problems launching the player? You need the latest Flash plugin. The player will open in a new window.

More from Radio Telegram

What's New?

Telegram author shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize South Asia and Europe

Internationally recognized for propelling authors into the literary spotlight, the shortlist for the regional winners from South Asia and Europe has been unveiled in the race to win the influential 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. All fingers and toes are most definately crossed for Aamer Hussein's beautiful novella, Another Gulmohar Tree for when the regional winners are announced on the 11 March. You can see the full shortlist on the press release here. Congratulations Aamer!

Saqi wins Nibbie!
Saqi took home the Nibbie for Diversity in Literature at the British Book Industry Awards in Cambridge on 1st of June 2010.

They said we were 'Impressively multilingual, multicultural and international, with employment policies genuinely supporting diversity.'

Hooray!

Julia O'Faolain
After a terrible day of delays, Julia O'Faolain finally arrived in Dublin for an inteview for the Irish Times. You can read the result here

Julia was at the Dublin Writer's Festival this weekend following a launch at the Médiathéque Française in Dublin and the Irish Embassy in London. Fear not though, you can catch Julia again at her event with poet and Costa winner Adam Foulds at the Edinburgh Internation Book Festival in August.

But other members of our Telegram family have been in the media too. Aamer Hussein was reviewed in the TLS as having 'precise, poetic prose'. The Independent said 'Aamer Hussein shows that he has the rare gift of expressing enduring and radiant happiness'. The FT calls it a 'slender delight'.

Moris Farhi was reviewed in the Independent as being 'a roar of a book, a novel bursting with an uplifting generosity of spirit and lust for life'. The TLS said 'The writing in A Designated Man has warmth, energy and a generosity of spirit.'

And finally the wonderful blogger Lizzy Siddal gives a gob-smacking review of Spain's best contemporary novelist, Eduardo Mendoza. Discover Eduardo now for some 'literary Prozac'.

  email this article     print-friendly version
Last modified on March 8, 2010  | © Telegram 2005


Telegram Books, 26 Westbourne Grove
London W2 5RH
T +44 (0)20 7229 2911 F +44 (0)20 7229 7492
Full contact details click here
 
Jump to
About Us
Telegram was founded in 2005 to publish the best in new and classic international writing.

More from About Us

Keep in Touch
Stay roughly up to date by joining our low-volume, high quality and entirely junk-free mailing list. The Telegram Mail Robot sends short stories, literary excerpts, special book offers and the odd freebie directly but not very often to your inbox.