Sara Mesa’s Four by Four is a novel of secrets revealed gradually. Its three sections progressively, though obliquely, uncover the…
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You’ll never forget meeting Rosa, the splendidly horrible grandmother who narrates this novel. She’ll go to any length to get…
You may think you know the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, but probably not the way Viktor Dyk…
It is 1493. Renaissance Milan is ruled by Ludovico Sforza, known as il Moro. Ten years earlier, Leonardo da Vinci…
Gwendolen Howard (1894–1973), known as Len, was a musician who gave up her career in mid-life to study birds in…
It begins innocuously enough: “‘Mum, I need a pee.’ ‘Well, go to the toilet then.’ ‘It’s not there.’” Okay, maybe…
Breathing into Marble was Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė’s first novel, and it won the EU Prize for Literature in 2009. Now…
Anglophone readers were introduced to Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler’s work in 2015 with A Whole Life, his short novel about…
As children during the Civil War, sisters Dolores and Saladina were evacuated to England from their Galician parish, Tierra de…
This month our #RivetingReviews cover fiction (including a graphic novel) and non-fiction hailing from France, Greece, the former Soviet Union,…
Fragile Travelers is the first book by Serbian writer Jovanka Živanović to appear in English translation. It begins with a…
William Bickford patented the safety fuse in 1831: the gunpowder was sealed inside a length of rope, which allowed the…
