We’re into our second month of UK lockdown but we’re still reading, still writing and still sharing our thoughts about…
April 2020
Bitter Grass is Gëzim Hajdari’s second bilingual, English-Italian collection of poetry, this time in Ian Seed’s translation, following Stigmata, translated…
This debut is as well-crafted an LGBT+ bildungsroman as you’ll find anywhere. Set in 1980s Poland, the protagonist, Ludwik’s sexual…
Warsaw 1937. Jakub Szapiro, a Jewish thug and champion boxer, the same age as the century, is the eponymous ‘king’…
‘This is the song I sing as a former convict’, writes Aziz BineBine, introducing his astonishingly life-affirming account of incarceration…
In this, her fourth novel, and the first to be translated into English, Durastanti paints a vivid portrait of a…
Elin Willows’ debut Inlands explores the emotional journey of a young woman who has found herself in a new place,…
In the spring of 2019, after the ‘caliphate’ established by ISIS had finally crumbled, children of jihadists and their niqab-clad…
Existential novels are often weighty tomes, moody and complex. Not so Summer Light… which deals with the theme of life’s…
