Welcome to the last #RivetingReviews of 2018. We’re taking a break from our monthly reviews in December and January –…

November 2018
Teenaged Ophelia lives on the ark of Anima, where she’s been perfectly happy spending her days attending to the extended…
‘They call them sculptures because they’re made of marble or iron or wood, but they’re really yarns, brief stories from…
This collection of stories – strictly speaking essays – by contemporary Belarusian poet and journalist Tania Skarynkina depicts the day-to-day…
Pavel Vilikovský clearly enjoys playing with his readers as much as he revels in playing with words. Why else would…
Seven-year-old Shura and his friend are playing at the Leningrad railway yard when a tremendously long freight train chugs past.…
This is a book with three narrative strands. First we have the life story of Enric Marco, as pieced together…