V&Q Books

V&Q Books is the English-language imprint of Voland & Quist Verlag. Remarkable writing from Germany.

V&Q Books is the English-language imprint of Voland & Quist Verlag, Germany. Launching our first titles in 2020, we will release 5 to 6 books a year initially, for distribution mainly in the UK and Ireland, plus Germany, Austria and Switzerland. V&Q Books is headed by renowned translator Katy Derbyshire and publishes remarkable writing from Germany, translated from German and other languages. Furt

her bridging the gap between Europe and the UK, we will also be championing original English writing made in Germany.

15/10/2025

We launched Every Time We Say Goodbye is person! Thanks to for hosting us, the ground crew for selling copies — and .sajko1 and .simic for being so talented and eloquent.

13/10/2025

Join us tomorrow to launch this beautiful wreck of a novel. 7 pm, galerie

10/10/2025

Today! Rush out and get your copies of Ivana Sajko’s EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE, translated by Mima Simić.

‘This concentrated prose hits at the heart of our present-day politics. Ivana Sajko’s novel is both political and deeply personal. With archaic force, it touches the foundations of our existence surrounded by war.’ Verena Auffermann, Deutschlandfunk Kultur

08/10/2025

Like all our books, Ivana Sajko’s Every Time We Say Goodbye features a translator’s note, this time by Mima Simić. You’ll find it at the link in our bio. Here’s just a tiny excerpt from Mima’s fascinating note:
„Imagine having to take a breath – the longest one. Imagine it seeping in through your teeth and your nose, gliding across your tongue, forking around your tonsils, leaking down your throat. Imagine this slow and steady influx of air, as words, flowing in for ten, fifteen minutes. You’re full? About to burst?

Imagine then having to hold them inside for another ten, fifteen. Until you really can’t take it anymore. Until there’s no oxygen left in you. You’re about to pass out, you’re in that space.

That’s how this book wants to make you feel. And if you’re courageous enough, you will let it. You will let go.“

The novel is available now in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and out on Friday in the UK and Ireland. Be courageous!

06/10/2025

PUB DAY ALERT!!!
Every Time We Say Goodbye is out today in Germany, Austria & Switzerland. Get your copies from any bookshop – if they don’t have it, order it and they should have it tomorrow.
Congratulations to writer Ivana Sajko and translator Mima Simić.

‘Ivana Sajko’s language is distilled to perfection. It flows and is poetic and hits every nerve. Blazingly relevant writing.’ Clemens Meyer, author of While We Were Dreaming

‘… every goodbye is a little death, each one clinging tightly to what it leaves behind, and each deserves its own photograph, its own legend, its own notebook …’

A man on a train, propelled from a small town on the south-eastern coast of Europe to Berlin by a gesture of violence. As the wheels turn, his mind roams free in a feverish attempt to trace the genealogy of that violence in his own past and that of Europe as a whole. A man in search of a destination where he can be a stranger – but has that better place since ceased to exist?

Shipwrecks and border pushbacks; epidemics and industrial ruins; a family divided by economic necessity; a brother lost to crime; love and fear and memories of happier times in Berlin – yet through it all runs a silver thread of hope spun by a far-off friend.

A profound novel of contemporary Europe in the stark and furious voice of Dublin Prize-shortlisted Ivana Sajko, powerfully translated by Mima Simić.

23/09/2025

Join us on Tuesday, 14 October to launch .sajko1 and .simic ‘s brand new English translation, Every Time We Say Goodbye. opens its doors for us at 7:30, writer and translator in conversation with publisher from 8, followed by drinks. More information at the link in our bio.

12/08/2025

Head to our website for a summer discount on all our published books. Happy cheap reading!

07/07/2025

ANNOUNCING: 📣📣📣 We’re our 2025 book in October, EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE, written by .sajko1 and translated by .simic 🕰️🕰️🕰️ Watch this space for more details over the coming months.

27/06/2025

Hats off to as usual

26/06/2025

News coming soon... Don’t miss it.

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