Welcome to July’s Riveting Reviews. We’ve had to step aside for a while, due mainly to the embarrassment of riches…

July 2022
I don’t like poetry as a genre. There. I’ve said it. So sue me. I don’t get it. Moreover, I…
We know about the 1933 book burning by the Nazis, but we know little about the crime of the ‘Aryanisation…
This is the eighth in the Oslo Detectives series, translated into English by the expert and always readable Don Bartlett…
It’s seven years since I reviewed a book by David Lagercrantz; that was the first of his three recreations of…
It’s easy to see why this joyful novel was such a smash in Arenz’s native Germany. If your mood is…
This extraordinary modern fable explores the experience of profound grief and loss – how we survive it and, eventually, come…