This little book – it is only 80 pages long – packs a punch beyond its size. The main character, Karolína, looks back on her childhood and adolescence, which coincided with th
The Parthenon Bomber by the Greek writer Christos Chrissopoulos, is one of those novels that make you think you’ve missed some very big news. The Parthenon, it’s still standing
Is the good lover also a good man? Steinunn Sigurðardóttir offers no easy answers in a tale of united lovers and lost loves. Karl Ástuson leads an empty existence as an Icelandi
With the Domesday Clock the closest it’s been to midnight since the nuclear tests of the early 1950s, have you thought where you’d like to be when the world ends? Has it also o
A teacher of philosophy fascinated by quantum physics, the French author Jérôme Ferrari is the perfect person to write this autobiographical novel of Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901
Seeking to flee her previous life, TV presenter and academic Allis Hagtorn takes up a job as housekeeper and gardener for Sigurd Bagge, a recluse living in the remote Norwegian fjo
High in the Swiss Alps, birds gather on the balcony of a villa, their black feathers and red legs standing out against the swirling snow. They swoop and chatter, squabbling over th
If you attended our ELNet workshop this February 2017, ‘How To Write Riveting Reviews’, then you’ll know how inspiring it was to hear some of this country’s top literary cr
