1944, the cruelest winter bites as the war arrives on Bologna’s doorstep. The rabid fascist Black Brigades, untethered since the collapse of Mussolini’s government, unl
The war is finally encroaching on the village of Le Case in Tuscany in early winter, 1943. It is now occupied by German and Italian troops, as the allied advance into Italy gets ev
Grimm’s Fairy Tales were not originally written for children. They were collected, adapted and preserved by the Brothers Grimm, in the nineteenth century; they were folk tales ha
War seemed to wander aimlessly through the former Russian Empire … The Tsars had gone but the Bolsheviks and Soviets and Red army were making only patchy progress. The horrors an
Michela McKay is a tough, corrupt and fearless officer in the Spanish National Police Force, Benidorm branch. We’re told early on that she’s on a very specific mission to track
The saying goes that “old soldiers never die – they merely fade away” and the same might well be said about old policemen: a sleuth will always be a sleuth, even if o
Silvia Choleva has six poetry collections under her belt, written between the mid-1990s and now. She is also the author of three plays and two books of prose fragments, as well as
This collection of twenty-three poems from Pedro Serrano is aptly named The Conjurer: the illusion he crafts through his usage and arrangement of language; his handling of the emot
Divided into five untitled sections, this collection’s thirty-six poems are laid out across ninety-five pages, enabling each original in Slovene to sit opposite its English trans
Maria Stepanova is a poet, novelist, essayist and journalist. She was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2021 for her War of the Beasts and the Animals
