You, like me, may never have heard of Ostap Vyshnia. That’s the pseudonym of a Ukrainian writer and satirist who…
August 2018
Hans Jonathan (1784–1827) was a most unlikely Icelander. With his dark complexion and curly hair, he looked very different from…
Sedd is no ordinary Norwegian schoolboy, having been raised by his grandparents, who own and run the Fåvnesheim Mountain Hotel,…
This is a book about obsession. That, and what is revealed in the jacket copy – an aspiring 35-year-old writer…
It takes a poet who lives amidst our daily clutter to see the near as something distant. With this vision,…
Almost exactly fifteen months ago, I reviewed Pol Koutsakis’s first thriller in the Stratos Gazis series, Athenian Blue. I said…
Trick, the latest offering in English from Domenico Starnone, one of Italy’s most renowned writers, and translated expertly by Jhumpa…
A Swarm of Dust is the second part of Flisar’s unofficial ‘Village Trilogy’, all of which have been published by…
Gine Cornelia Pedersen’s explosive debut made a big impact in Norway, drawing stylistic comparisons to ‘a punk-rock single’, and receiving,…
Anita Naaka has committed suicide by jumping into the path of oncoming train, leaving her grown up daughter, Norma, alone.…
Born in Iran, Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde fled with her parents to Sweden as a child. In her novel What We…
The long hot summer has broken, and the torpor it provoked in many across Europe seems to have been shrugged…
