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Reviews
Throughout this entrancing and disturbing novel, there is a continual sense of oscillation: a movement from a concrete, secure space,…
Even though Milan Šelj is a translator of poetry from English into Slovene, and has lived in the UK and…
Those who enjoyed the compelling and astringent Mercy will be pleased to know that we are back in the lively…
Wild Dog is Serge Joncour’s first novel to be published in English, and is published here in translation by Jane…
‘German has no future. First of all, because it’s an ugly language, viscous and unclean, an idiom for unlearned people…
Great news for the children’s books world: Dedalus Books, doubtless known to most Riveting Reviews readers for their thirty-six years…
The five ‘stans’ portrayed by Erika Fatland – Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan – are, it’s probably fair to…
In the last decade, Norwegians appear to have become connoisseurs of unhurried culture, beginning with the introduction of ‘slow-TV’ in…
Introduced by Rosie GoldsmithChair of the EBRD Judging Panel and Director of the European Literature Network This week my fellow…
‘I’ll send it anyway’, said the publicist when I intimated that Clemens Meyer and I didn’t gel. (I’d DNF’ed All…
This book offers a very intricate, highly precise collage of images, each capturing something about the times we live in.…
Marion Brunet is one of France’s best-known writers for young adults; this is her first novel for a general adult…
