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May 2021
The Basel Killings (originally published in 2004), is the first of a series of novels featuring Inspector Peter Hunkeler and…
This is the fourth novel by former Catalan policeman, Víctor del Árbol, to be translated into English. Very few writers…
The Things We’ve Seen, Mallo’s latest novel to appear in English translation by Thomas Bunstead, is an incredible triptych, in…
To read Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal, is to immerse yourself in rich and sometimes obscure language and deep…
‘My big brother lives in a bed half an hour’s drive from our caravan.’ It’s a hot, dry summer somewhere…
This book overwhelmed me, totally and utterly. I could not easily get through it, but I could not stop reading…