Breathing into Marble was Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė’s first novel, and it won the EU Prize for Literature in 2009. Now it’s the first title from Noir Press, launching t
The cover of this slender anthology says it all. It looks like an embroidered piece of naïve art: A boy and a girl in folksy attire sit under an apple tree. But look closer and yo
This is a remarkable debut novel by a young Czech writer and, I predict, only the first of many more remarkable novels by Jaroslav Kalfar. He writes in English, is not yet thirty,
This is one of the most delightful books I’ve read for some time. It’s usual to refer to such things as ‘un-putdownable’, but the great pleasure of The Revolution of the Mo
Although Kjell Ola Dahl is one of the grand old men of Nordic Noir (well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, he’s not quite 60!), he’s not that well-known in the UK. His best-k
This month we visit Lithuania, Norway, Italy and both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Our resident crime fiction reviewer, Max Easterman, is on a roll with TWO reviews, and I revi
