A Girl Called Eel is an unusual take on the coming-of-age novel. In a single sentence, punctuated with commas and…
February 2020
‘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…
Welcome to February’s Riveting Reviews. The line between fiction and fact seems very faint in our selection this month. We…