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…
The series of Detective Kurt Wallander books by the late Henning Mankell are notable for a variety of elements, apart…
The Norwegian writer Kjell Ola Dahl deserves attention – as strong novels such as The Last Fix (2000) have amply…
