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Readers long spellbound by Ferrante’s Valhalla-like worlds of the Italian South, her redoubtable skills as a writer, the swarming opacity…
The amorphous and labyrinthine structure of Kokoschka’s Doll is certainly demanding. Portuguese polymath Afonso Cruz presents an array of parallel…
In her celebrated 1964 memoir La Bâtarde, Violette Leduc recounts the genesis of her first novel, at the instigation of…
A year ago, I was given the chance to leaf through Roald Dahl’s mother’s book of Norwegian fairy tales. The…
Knut Hamsun detested England. To the Nobel laureate, the island in the west embodied modernity at its worst: industrialism, materialism,…
Whenever an author has already made their mark with an impressive, prize-winning novel, you dread their subsequent books, out of…
Reading this book is a powerful experience. For me it meant full immersion into a unique world, filled with vivid,…
A slim slice of literary perfection, The Bitch is a lesson in the power of understatement. The simplicity of the…
This collection of short stories cleverly and comically uses the mundane format of the job interview to expose the failings…
Despite being widely regarded as one of the catalysts of the contemporary Catalan novel, the work of Narcís Oller (1846–1930)…
The Woman of the Wolf and Other Stories is the first title in Gallic Books’ new ‘Revolutionary Women’ list, launched…
We welcome in 2021 with Riveting Reviews from our now expanded ELNet team. Rosie Eyre and Alice Banks have joined…
