Welcome to February’s Riveting Reviews. The line between fiction and fact seems very faint in our selection this month. We…
February 2020
‘I’ll send it anyway’, said the publicist when I intimated that Clemens Meyer and I didn’t gel. (I’d DNF’ed All…
This book offers a very intricate, highly precise collage of images, each capturing something about the times we live in.…
Marion Brunet is one of France’s best-known writers for young adults; this is her first novel for a general adult…
The once-invisible, pseudonymous couple who together comprise ‘Lars Kepler’ are no longer a mystery. After the immense success of their…
An inexplicable pattern of vandalism is happening across the German city of Hamburg. Every night, vehicles are being torched. Is…
Lucky Per is extraordinary in many ways, but perhaps the most extraordinary is that it is only now available in…
A Girl Called Eel is an unusual take on the coming-of-age novel. In a single sentence, punctuated with commas and…
‘Her white face had the frozen and inscrutable quality of a mask.’ Kadare’s haunting memoir begins conventionally enough, with a…
In 2018 the Strega prize for best Italian fiction was awarded to Helena Janeczek, a Polish-German novelist writing in Italian,…
Graham Greene once called Norway ‘a little patch of careless culture at the edge of the sea and of the…
