Welcome to June’s #RivetingReviews – our literary Euros. This isn’t a competition, of course, but if it were, Italy…
June 2021
This is a surprisingly short novel considering the vastness of its subject matter: right-wing extremism and the banality of evil.…
Five years ago exactly, in the summer of 2016, I wrote a review for these pages of Dulce Maria Cardoso’s…
Set in contemporary Spain, Rabbit Island offers readers a recognisable world, subtly twisted by Navarro’s dark prose. This somewhat nightmarish…
A frequently reiterated question (as this writer can attest) is: ‘When will the Nordic Noir boom be over?’ The answer…
‘It’s the sort of thing that sisters know, I think to myself, how to hurt one another…’ So muses forty-year-old…
French writer Laurent Binet’s new novel, Civilisations is fictional history, turning true events upside down. What if a group of…