This book of reportage documents three instances of severe environmental damage and industrial skulduggery committed by major international companies, to the detriment of local peo
A seven-month-pregnant friend told me recently that the day of one’s birth is statistically the most dangerous day of one’s life; for women, the second most dangerous day in th
Eleven-year-old Joanna lives with her self-absorbed mother in a smart flat. Escaping into computer games, she creates an interesting internal life, as Omega. On her 12th birthday s
Julia Fiedorczuk, ELNet’s recent guest at one of our Euro Stars events, is known principally as a poet and a critic who popularised the idea of ecopoetry. She has published five
Agnieszka Dale’s psychological territory is bridge-building. She straddles the land of her birth – Poland – and her adoptive UK home. National shape-shifting and the individu
Jacek Dehnel’s first full collection in English spans the past 15 years and includes work from four of his Polish collections. His translator, Karen Kovacik, has chosen to order
In the later stages of Żanna Słoniowska’s exceptional The House with the Stained-Glass Window, the novel’s narrator is escorted through the Ukrainian city of Lviv by her olde
The author of Exposure is Polish but she lives in the UK and writes in English. And this is a very English story, set among the gentrified warehouse conversions of east London, wit
Where – and who – is Clementine? Apparently she’s gone missing in the forest, and it’s up to Mark, Annie and Pudding (whose real name is Derek) to rescue her. But it’s a
The desire to uncover the truth about why Miedzianka, a provincial mountain-top town in Lower Silesia with a history stretching back 700 years, literally vanished from the face o
