January darkness was enveloping the northern hemisphere when the Icelandic trawler Mávur (‘Seagull’) left Reykjavik on its journey towards the southern tip of Greenland and th
Robespierre foresaw his own execution – realising it would an inevitable consequence of the bloodlust the French Revolution unleashed. In her biographical history, Craveri asks w
Another book about the Holocaust? Well, yes, but this book is not just about what happened during the Second World War, what unspeakable atrocities were committed and how brutally
The literary map is full of iconic writers virtually unknown to the English-speaking world. In Norway, Inger Hagerup is considered one of our finest twentieth-century poets, with m
Their influence on crime novels and cinema has been prodigious – so why isn’t the critical stock of Boileau & Narcejac higher? When Alfred Hitchcock saw the effect on audie
To say that Michel Bussi’s After the Crash made a considerable mark is to understate the case. The highly original premise had critics seeking new adjectives to praise this n
After an extended break, while we holidayed and then revelled in the abundance of Romanian content from our Romanian Riveter and the Romanian Rocks Festival, #RivetingReviews are b
