Madrid Will be Their Tomb takes place in two occupied buildings in Madrid: one the former headquarters of the NO-DO (a news organisation that produced propaganda during the Franco era), conquered by a small fascist group, and the other the ruins of an abandoned film studio, converted into the barrac
The third edition of the Festival of Queer Literature in Spanish in London – a project that was born from the London-based online bookstore Romancero Books CIC – will take place between Wednesday 22 and Sunday 26 November. In this edition the festival will be a hybrid of online and face-to-face
Daunt Books continues to satisfy my Ginzburg addiction with a drip feed of new editions of the work of someone I’m coming to regard as a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. Their publication of her two novellas, Valentino and Sagittarius, does nothing to alter my opinion. In them I fi
The plot of Collected Works is quick to tell – Cecilia Wikner, a thirty-three-year-old academic, mother of two young children, Rakel and Elis, wife of Martin Berg, leaves her family and disappears. The telling of this story, however, at over seven hundred pages, is long. As a reader you plunge in
The beautiful and arresting artwork on the cover of The Fire depicts a woman walking on a tightrope, recalling in some ways the cover, by the same artist, of Krien’s previous novel, Love in Five Acts, which depicts a woman on the edge of a pool, poised to dive in. After the success of Love [&helli
The Lake may be fiction but the cruelty and suffering of its characters are so real and the destruction of nature and climate so familiar, that it must be based on fact. Anyone who is concerned about the climate crisis and Russia’s war against Ukraine, and who knows the history of the Soviet Union
