This month we have an astonishingly broad sweep of countries, languages, cultures – and Riveting Reviewers! Along with old hands West Camel, Mika Provata-Carlone, John Munch and
Ari Thór Arason is back in this sixth novel in the Dark Iceland series; back in his old job in Siglufjörður in the far north, having failed to get promotion to inspector; back w
Nicola Lagioia’s Ferocity claims to belong to a counter-tradition of fiction as an anti-story, of narratives transcending and transgressing the boundaries of authorship and reade
In this slim, rather beautiful book, with its conflagrated, scarlet binding, Giorgio van Straten treats us to a quiet firework display of vignettes on the theme of loss, suppressio
As co-hostess of German Literature Month, November is, of course, the highlight of my reading year. Despite having over 200 unread translations of German literature in the house,
Twice a year, on mountain roads and tracks all over the world, sheep and livestock make their way between alpine summer pastures and lowland winter meadows in a practice known as t
This is an unputdownable, haunting read that left me with the same shattering feeling I had after visiting Auschwitz or the former Romanian communist prison in Sighet. Originally p
I hadn’t come across books by Daniel Kehlmann until I picked up You Should Have Left; I was subsequently told that I shouldn’t have read this one first. Not having anything to
Daniel Kehlmann specialises in parody and subversion and I make a beeline for everything of his that gets translated. 2017 has, therefore, been a good year, with two Kehlmanns brou
Like Troy, Lviv was sieged and attacked ferociously, repeatedly across its long history. It has been a war zone, a battleground, the heart of vicious internecine or multi-ethnic co
