After an extended break, while we holidayed and then revelled in the abundance of Romanian content from our Romanian Riveter…
November 2020
January darkness was enveloping the northern hemisphere when the Icelandic trawler Mávur (‘Seagull’) left Reykjavik on its journey towards the…
Robespierre foresaw his own execution – realising it would an inevitable consequence of the bloodlust the French Revolution unleashed. In…
Another book about the Holocaust? Well, yes, but this book is not just about what happened during the Second World…
The literary map is full of iconic writers virtually unknown to the English-speaking world. In Norway, Inger Hagerup is considered…
Their influence on crime novels and cinema has been prodigious – so why isn’t the critical stock of Boileau &…
To say that Michel Bussi’s After the Crash made a considerable mark is to understate the case. The highly original…