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Above is the cover of Das lange Lied eines Lebens, the German hardback edition of The Long Song which is now available, published by DVA. Also the Norwegian edition En Sang om Lengsel, published by Kagge Forlag, the Dutch edition, Het lange lied, published by Uitgeverij Mouria, the French edition, Une si longue histoire, published by Quai Voltaire/La Table Ronde, and the Italian edition, Una lunga canzone, published by Baldini Castoldi Dalai, are all now available. Further translated editions of The Long Song are in preparation in Spanish, Danish, Turkish, Hebrew, Greek, Portuguese (Brazil) and Hungarian.

The Long Song is published by Headline Review in the UK, by Farrar Straus and Giroux in the US and by Hamish Hamilton in Canada. Paperback editions are published by Picador in the US and Penguin in Canada.

Here are some links to articles about Andrea and The Long Song:
The Guardian
Metro
The Scotsman

The Wall Street Journal

The website Words Unlimited has an interesting interview where Andrea discusses the writing of The Long Song.

Here also is a link to YouTube where Andrea talks about the book.

The Long Song has won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2011. The results were announced at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose, Scotland.

SMALL ISLAND

Small Island was the subject of a Guardian Book Club feature. Here is a link to a podcast of Andrea talking about the book with John Mullan and answering questions from the audience.