Daunt Books continues to satisfy my Ginzburg addiction with a drip feed of new editions of the work of someone I’m coming to regard as a towering figure of twentieth-century lite
The plot of Collected Works is quick to tell – Cecilia Wikner, a thirty-three-year-old academic, mother of two young children, Rakel and Elis, wife of Martin Berg, leaves her fam
The beautiful and arresting artwork on the cover of The Fire depicts a woman walking on a tightrope, recalling in some ways the cover, by the same artist, of Krien’s previous nov
The Lake may be fiction but the cruelty and suffering of its characters are so real and the destruction of nature and climate so familiar, that it must be based on fact. Anyone who
It’s a pleasant Saturday morning. Matias wakes up with a rumbling in his tummy. The kind of rumbling that makes him head to the kitchen for toast. But when he approaches the kitc
I decided not to read up in advance about the subject of My Men, the woman know as America’s first female serial killer, as I felt that I wanted to appreciate the novel as a work
In his latest book, The Stranger in the Seine, faultlessly translated from the French by Rosie Eyre, Guillaume Musso takes the reader on a surprising journey full of apparently unr
Since the first Stella Blómkvist book was published in 2007 there have been twelve novels, as well as a popular television series featuring the author-protagonist. Nonetheless, th
Rummaging around for her keys, Andrada Vasiliu wishes she’d put them in the zippered pocket of her handbag. It turns out to be a fatal mistake, and her murder the start of a kill
Danish protagonist Hannah Krause-Bendix is probably the most unpleasant fictional crime investigator I’ve come across: even by the final pages of Thirty Days of Darkness, when so
