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Novels, poems and polemics penned at home and abroad

Based in Glasgow, Vagabond Voices is an independent publisher that is both Scottish and fervently European in its aims. Vagabond is committed to introducing new titles from Scottish authors and translating fiction from other languages. Our library reflects our aims to promote literary ambition and innovative writers, and to challenge readers.

17/07/2025

This , CIRCULATION by Magnus Florin (tr. Harry Watson).

Your grandparents have died; to cover the debts of the deceased, your house is to be sold. Only one place will offer you sanctuary: the bank where your grandfather's brother worked. What do you find there? This is the story of Circulation - a Kafka-esque novella of someone who after their grandparents' demise finds themselves an employee in a bank: a monstrosity of human make, yet incomprehensible to human minds.

More here: https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/changelings/circulation

15/07/2025

Here's a small piece of Magnus Florin's 'Circulation' (tr. Harry Watson) — a Kafka-esque novella of an employee in a bank: a monstrosity of human make, yet incomprehensible to human minds.

More here: https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/changelings/circulation

28/06/2025

In THE LAST WOMAN BORN ON THE ISLAND, Sharon Black maps the past and the present of Scotland, from the legend of the White Cow to the HMS Iolaire disaster in 1919 to the knitting of Eriskay ganseys. What is the difference between the lost and the merely forgotten? Who is this last woman - and is her island one that we know?

Cover art by Mark Mechan. Read more on our website:
https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/the-last-woman-born-on-the-island

26/06/2025

This , FEAR IN THE WORLD by Corrado Alvaro (tr. Allan Cameron).

Written a decade before Orwell's 1984, this novel won the literature prize of the Accademia d'Italia in 1940 - and was then censored in Italy under Mussolini. This is a story of fear used for political purposes, of quasi-religious mechanisms of power, and the extent to which people participate in their own regimentation.

More on our website here: https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/changelings/fearintheworld

#1984

24/06/2025

We've just received word that one of our poets, Sharon Black, has been awarded the first Tobias Hill Poetry Prize by - congrats, Sharon!

Read the poem here: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/baggies

14/06/2025

A little bit of poetry to brighten up your day. Our Scottish anthology 'Be the First to Like This' is just over ten years old now: maybe one day more people will sing of Google Scotland...!

12/06/2025

🇱🇻 Read all about it: this we have a rags-to-riches classic, Andrejs Upīts’s novel Gold! In a Latvia still under Tsarist rule and on the brink of the First World War, the Sveilis family, poor yet hardworking, suddenly inherit great wealth. And it is this wealth that leads them on a journey that peels far away from all expectations and cliché, into a world ruled by desire and disappointment. Upīts is forensic in his dissection of a society contending with extremes of both wealth and poverty, and how this is undermining what is left of a moral society – perhaps as topical now as it was then.

Gold is the youngest of our Changelings and translated by Uldis Balodis. Order it now on our website here: https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/changelings/gold

10/06/2025

Former Makar of Scotland Liz Lochhead introduces our Scottish poetry anthology 'Be the First to Like This', published just over ten years ago.

07/06/2025

Just some of the wonderful translated works we've had the pleasure to publish. From around the world and throughout the last century, explore them all here: https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/changelings

05/06/2025

"Literatures are at their best when they have an ear for what other literatures are doing." —Allan Cameron

📚🎉It's , everyone! What are you reading at the moment? If you need any new translated novels in your life, visit our website here: https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/changelings

03/06/2025

A few poetry titles from our backlist! Used to be we would do poetry for , but really any day is a good day for a poem. Any new titles or old favourites catch your eye? 📚

31/05/2025

Looking for something new this Saturday? Here's the of Stewart Ennis' Blessed Assurance: a coming-of-age novel set in a close-knit evangelical Scottish community, woven around family, friendship, faith and grief. A favourite of ours and readers', read it on its own or in our Three Fine Vagabonds bundle – more here: https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/vagabonds/blessed-assurance

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