My Brother the Messiah is a philosophical novel set in a post-apocalyptic world, between eighty and one hundred and fifty years in the future. Humanity has walked with open arms in
My Brother is a bleak tale of childhood abuse and dysfunctional adulthood set in arctic Sweden. You will need to gird your loins, as the central characters, siblings Jana and Bror,
The Silent Letter, by Jaume Subirana, translated by Christopher Whyte, the latest release from Fum d’Estampa press, is a collection of stunning poetry in a bilingual Catalan and
Over the past decade, Max Lobe has emerged as a name to watch in contemporary Swiss literature. Since moving to Switzerland as a student and publishing his first novel in 2011, the
Delphine de Vigan is that rare phenomenon – a French writer well known to UK readers, especially for her novels Based on a True Story (2019) a psychological thriller blurring mem
Paolo Maurensig was born and lives in Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, in north-east Italy. He wrote his first novel, The Lüneburg Variation in 1993 when he was fifty; it was an immediate b
A toothsome slices of Nordic Noir, Fallen Angels by Gunnar Staalesen (translated by the matchless Don Bartlett) is proof positive that Staalesen is the key detective writer in Scan
Penguin’s Georges Simenon reissue programme put crime aficionados in their debt with such titles as The Man who Watched Trains Go By. P.D. James called Simenon a writer who, more
Marcin Świetlicki is a legend in Poland. He is an influential figure in the poetry world, but also has a strong presence on the music scene. Having fronted a rock band called Świ
There’s a bit of a rock-star theme to our #RivetingReviews this month. Anna Blasiak – our Riveter magazine poetry editor – reviews the first collection in English from Polish
