What was the floor like in your childhood home? Resi, the narrator of Anke Stelling’s Higher Ground, has a moment…
Reviews
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…
At a time when being stuck indoors, unable to go out, has become the new norm and the spectre of…
Esther Gerritsen is a celebrated Dutch author and playwright. She’s also building a reputation as a screenwriter, with scripts including…
It’s the dead of night, the dead of winter. Unable to sleep, a young widow bakes a cake while her…
The Golden Age of Dutch art hung Ruisdael windmills and Rembrandt granaries in the gallery of our international imagination. These…
