One of the greatest achievements for any writer is to create their own world. When readers enter this world they can safely lock their doors, close the windows and allow themselves
What do Norway and North-Korea have in common? The answer is the Russian border. Between Erika Fatland’s egalitarian homeland and the hermetically sealed northeast Asian dictator
This is Gianrico Carofiglio’s latest outing for his campaigning lawyer, Guido Guerrieri from Puglia (his name implies ‘warrior’). We left him in A Fine Line (reviewed here in
According to the ‘six degrees of separation’ concept, take any two individuals on the planet, and within six hops along their chain of acquaintances you’ll be able to trace y
What was the floor like in your childhood home? Resi, the narrator of Anke Stelling’s Higher Ground, has a moment in the opening section of the novel when she realises her mother
In Andrea Víctrix, first published in 1974, Villalonga speculates on a future that now doesn’t seem too far away. In 2050, on the island of Mallorca – whose capital is here kn
Many literary masterpieces published during Poland’s twenty years of independence between the world wars (1919–1939) remain untranslated into English and largely unknown to aud
When a renowned translator (Katy Derbyshire) starts an imprint (V&Q Books) to bring a favourite novel to Anglophone readers, there’s an inkling that said novel might just be
Alice Zeniter’s multi-generational family saga is a compelling tale of a family caught in the fallout from France’s ill-fated colonial past. Written in sparkling French prose,
As we come to the end of this month of crowdfunding for the European Literature Network, and extend our thanks to all those who’ve donated and offered rewards as part of the camp
