This month we have an astonishingly broad sweep of countries, languages, cultures – and Riveting Reviewers! Along with old hands…
Dec 2017
Ari Thór Arason is back in this sixth novel in the Dark Iceland series; back in his old job in…
Nicola Lagioia’s Ferocity claims to belong to a counter-tradition of fiction as an anti-story, of narratives transcending and transgressing the…
In this slim, rather beautiful book, with its conflagrated, scarlet binding, Giorgio van Straten treats us to a quiet firework…
As co-hostess of German Literature Month, November is, of course, the highlight of my reading year. Despite having over 200…
Twice a year, on mountain roads and tracks all over the world, sheep and livestock make their way between alpine…
This is an unputdownable, haunting read that left me with the same shattering feeling I had after visiting Auschwitz or…
I hadn’t come across books by Daniel Kehlmann until I picked up You Should Have Left; I was subsequently told…
Daniel Kehlmann specialises in parody and subversion and I make a beeline for everything of his that gets translated. 2017…
Like Troy, Lviv was sieged and attacked ferociously, repeatedly across its long history. It has been a war zone, a…
The Beauties, the opening and title story in this fine collection of freshly translated Chekov gems, transported me back more…
Four people, a big castle, a lot of guests – oh, and a fair bit of chemistry, too … Elective…
