London’s National Poetry Librarian Chris McCabe found Home on the Move to be ‘one of the most inventive and necessary poetry projects of recent years’, and it would be hard n
When I met the Swedish master Henning Mankell shortly before his death, the subject of his mortality came up, as it usually did when I had conversations with him. He confided that
In Ormberg, Hanne Lagerlind-Schön practises as a psychological profiler and has proved adept at disinterring cold cases. Her most profound challenge comes when she examines a deca
Originally published in 1961 in ‘Peoples’ Poland’ and now translated for the first time into English, The Memoir of an Anti-Hero describes a nameless fictional narrator’s c
The history of jazz is littered with books, both scholarly and otherwise, that have tried, and so often failed, to provide a comprehensive analysis of the music, to explain to both
Towards the end of My Parents – one part of this one-volume, two-book memoir – Hemon shows his sister the drafts of this history of their parents’ life together. She notes th
When I first picked up Real Life, the debut novel by Belgian author Adeline Dieudonné, now available in a wonderful English translation by Roland Glasser, it immediately made a bi
The Iron Chariot (‘Jernvognen’) by Stein Riverton was first published more than 110 years ago. and in 2017 was voted the greatest Norwegian crime novel of all time by Norway’
Happy New Year and welcome to our first Riveting Reviews of 2020. With the shock of January out of the way – along with other unmentionable shocks – we’re doubling up in Febr
