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One of the greatest achievements for any writer is to create their own world. When readers enter this world they…
What do Norway and North-Korea have in common? The answer is the Russian border. Between Erika Fatland’s egalitarian homeland and…
This is Gianrico Carofiglio’s latest outing for his campaigning lawyer, Guido Guerrieri from Puglia (his name implies ‘warrior’). We left…
According to the ‘six degrees of separation’ concept, take any two individuals on the planet, and within six hops along…
What was the floor like in your childhood home? Resi, the narrator of Anke Stelling’s Higher Ground, has a moment…
In Andrea Víctrix, first published in 1974, Villalonga speculates on a future that now doesn’t seem too far away. In…
Many literary masterpieces published during Poland’s twenty years of independence between the world wars (1919–1939) remain untranslated into English and…
When a renowned translator (Katy Derbyshire) starts an imprint (V&Q Books) to bring a favourite novel to Anglophone readers, there’s…
Alice Zeniter’s multi-generational family saga is a compelling tale of a family caught in the fallout from France’s ill-fated colonial…
In the exact middle of Penguin’s impressive first collection of Dutch short stories is Cees Nooteboom’s ‘Paula’. Indulging in unashamed…
Jelmer Mommers’ book starts with two aims: 1) to explain the principal parts of the climate emergency, and 2) to…
Poet, playwright, novelist and children’s author Jaap Robben is popular with readers of all ages. He began writing for children…
