This is a tense, tender novella set in Germany just after the Second World War. An English photographer tries to…
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Suiza by first-time novelist Bénédicte Belpois is a perfect capsule of everything I love in a novel: beauty, darkness, humour;…
This French author with a contemporary European attitude has created a brilliant female duo: a profiler and a true-crime writer.…
On the surface this appears to be a depiction of the final stages of a long war. Below that surface…
Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks takes the nineteenth-century novel into the twentieth century. It is one of the great social novels –…
You’ll never forget meeting Rosa, the splendidly horrible grandmother who narrates this novel. She’ll go to any length to get…