Welcome to what I hope you will agree is another Christmas feast of #RivetingReviews! This is the time of year when reading something new and original can be the antidote to overin
The below is what Ursula Phillips, the translator of Jacek Dukaj’s Ice, wrote for the publisher of the book, Head of Zeus/Bloomsbury. In her piece, Ursula explains the proces
Little Lea lives in a quiet rural town in Spain with her mother and her disabled sister, Nora. When a stranger loses his dog, Little Lea cautions him against entering the nearby fo
The term ‘roman dur’, which was used by Georges Simenon himself to refer to all those novels that he regarded as his specifically literary works, is difficult to render precise
Between 1946 and 1955 a huge dam and hydroelectric plant was built at Grandas de Salime in North-West Spain by Franco, the Spanish dictator. This project transformed the river Navi
When we first delve into the pages of Foundry Edition’s latest publication, The Duke, and become immersed in the eponymous narrator’s florid, somewhat pretentious voice, we cou
The conundrum is a perennial one: How could Germany, the nation that produced Goethe and Beethoven, also pave the way to the immemorial abomination of Hitler and the Holocaust? Ann
Few books from the German-speaking world have elicited such excitement in recent years as Nelio Biederman’s Lázár. A magical realist saga chronicling the decline and fall of an
The Italian novelist and children’s writer, Nadia Terranova, was born in Messina on the coast of northeast Sicily, and it’s this specific geography that inspires her latest nov
Nino Haratischwili’s The Lack of Light is one of those novels that does not simply depict a world but questions how we look at it. Three women, long since scattered, meet in Brus
