Dead Men Dancing is the second crime novel by Jógvan Isaksen to be published in English translation – the first was Walpurgis Tide (for which I wrote a #RivetingReview back in 2
For UK readers still recovering from the plebescital pain of 2016, the prospect of a novel about a hotly contested referendum dividing a nation may inspire some trepidation. Fortun
It’s Friday in an unnamed coastal town bordering on desert. It’s hot – ‘almost dissolved by heat’ – with tourists, children seeking work and slumbering students in half
The more life speeds up, the more poetry feels like an antidote; the act of reading forces you to slow down, focus, absorb the words and process the ideas. Ædnan is a novel writte
This is a glorious book centred on two Russian-speaking families in Ukraine during the Soviet era. At its heart is the complex love-hate relationships between mothers and daughters
Ginster reflects on German lives on the home front during World War I. Naturally, the off-page conflagration dominates daily life and thought, and this is a lament for a society at
There are two stories running parallel in this latest novel by Ukrainian writer Tanja Maljartschuk: that of Viacheslav Lypynskyi, born in 1882, an important figure in the early 20t
Writing about evil, Terry Eagleton claims that ‘postmodern cultures have had little to say of evil’, explaining this by our lack of ‘the depth that true destructiveness requi
Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini were successful Italian newspaper and magazine journalists for many years until Lucentini committed suicide in 2002. They also wrote six highly
Maria Grazia Calandrone is a well-known Italian poet and broadcaster. Before writing this memoir, Your Little Matter, which was on the Italian bestseller list for most of 2022, she
