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Reviews
Before reading Vespers, I had never come across Trevor Żahra. However, upon reading Clare Vasallo’s foreword to her translation of…
Nearly a century ago, when even the threat of Nazi Germany failed to dent the general optimism that mankind had…
On a warm late-summer Sunday afternoon, the unnamed narrator travels from her central Paris home to visit her sister, Claire…
Maciek Bielawski is a new name to watch in Polish literature. His debut in his home country was the autobiographical…
Since its publication in France in 2006, as riots were exploding in the Paris banlieues, Eve Out of Her Ruins…
‘If someone could look down on us from above, they’d see that the world is full of people running about…
The wonderful Emma Press has released two sets of Bicki-Books. These are charming, small-format picture books for children aged three…
‘Cat & Dog are not the same, in fact they are very different and the perfect subjects for a tale…
Many children and adults will know the Polish husband-and-wife team Daniel and Aleksandra Mizielinski from their bestselling nonfiction title Maps…
Sally Jones is back! Translated books for younger readers rarely receive the recognition they deserve in the English-speaking press. The…
Where do you go when you need to avert the world’s worst disaster? When your best friend Lottie moves away…
In his preface to this latest in Comma’s Reading the City series, one of Reykjavik’s greatest literary exports, Sjón, describes…
