Tue 30 October 2018, 18:30 – 21:00, Caravansérail, 5 Cheshire Street, London E2 6ED, free entry (register here) Come to Caravansérail for the book launch of award-winning French author Mathias Enard‘s novel Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, translated by Charlotte Mandell and pu
This classic children’s adventure story pits ten-year-old Siri against the villainous Captain Whitehead in a bid to save her little sister from slavery. Though set in a frozen arctic world, it’s a truly heart-warming tale of friendship, sisterly love and courage in the face of all odds. For chil
The first of a trilogy, Middagsmörker (which also translates as ‘Darkness at Midday’) is a YA fantasy novel set in an isolated Sami community in Swedish Lappland. Young Áili discovers she is a shaman with magical powers, which she must use to fight the supernatural forces of evil threatening t
When Arno Camenisch was young he had a globe, a treasured possession that would lead him to spend much of his early twenties travelling. It also led him to the realisation that the vast Swiss valley that is his birthplace would only just accommodate London’s great expanse. How could that possibly
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the EBRD, is pleased to announce the call for submissions to the EBRD Literature Prize 2019. The EBRD works in partnership with the British Council in developing and promoting the Prize.The Prize recognises the extraordinary richness and variet
At the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Sun 7 Oct 2018 Sebastian Faulks hosted a panel of European Literature Specialists. A reminder of the Reading Europe event: In these fraught times with so much talk around borders, walls and divisions, it feels more important than ever to be thinking and read
