The Basel Killings (originally published in 2004), is the first of a series of novels featuring Inspector Peter Hunkeler and the first to be translated – with panache by Mike Mit
This is the fourth novel by former Catalan policeman, Víctor del Árbol, to be translated into English. Very few writers range across the physical landscape, and even time, with t
The Things We’ve Seen, Mallo’s latest novel to appear in English translation by Thomas Bunstead, is an incredible triptych, in which a series of disconcerting coincidences and
To read Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal, is to immerse yourself in rich and sometimes obscure language and deep ideas. You may have to keep a dictionary by your side – but it
‘My big brother lives in a bed half an hour’s drive from our caravan.’ It’s a hot, dry summer somewhere in France. Thirteen-year-old Brian and his wheeler-dealer fath
This book overwhelmed me, totally and utterly. I could not easily get through it, but I could not stop reading it either. And mulling it over. Was this because of the emotional loa
Diop says he was inspired to write this novel – now shortlisted for the International Booker Prize – after reading a collection of letters from France’s ‘Poilus’ (‘the
‘We want stories; we say they illuminate; and the truer the story, the better we like it. But no one knows how to tell true stories. And yet, we’re made of stories, we’ve bee
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