Welcome to September’s #RivetingReviews. With the publishing world in overdrive, and ‘Super Thursday’ looming on 9 October – the date when the big publishers release
This is a sad book, a beautiful book. It’s about the death of a father – the death of the narrator’s father, the death also of Georgi Gospodinov’s father. (As so often in h
In Irene Solà’s fantastical third novel, animals reign supreme. From the woods that surround the remote Catalonian farmhouse where old Bernadeta with her ‘lizard lids’ lies
Jérôme Prieur’s Zombie Proust, translated from the original Proust fantôme (2001) by Nancy Kline and published by Les Fugitives, reanimates the enigma of one of modern literat
This is the story of a young Iranian couple, Behzad and Nahid, who flee Iran after the 1979 Revolution and settle and have a family in West Germany. Their story is told in four sec
Didier Eribon is probably best known to Anglophone readers for his memoir Return to Reims. There, he writes about his re-engagement with his family after decades of estrangement, d
Pier Vittorio Tondelli (1955–1991) was an Italian writer, journalist and playwright who enjoyed something of a cult reputation in Italy in the 1980s and 1990s. An author whose wo
There is a lot to admire in this panoramic novel, with its decades-long sweep from the Holocaust to the post-World War Two geopolitical landscape. It is both a wide-screen view of
It’s September and that means … World Kid Lit Month! The time to go global with our reading, and think about broadening horizons in terms of the books we make available to youn
