Thirteen-year-old Maresi is a novice in a matriarchal religious community on a remote island, where she has taken refuge after…
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Forget Glenn Close and John Malkovich. The best way to appreciate the dastardly scheming of the divinely devious Marquise de…
‘I am writing in order to understand, and to bear witness …’ In the near future, in a country that…
Herr Isakowitz skatt is an account of the author’s road trip across Sweden and Poland, together with his father and…
Bis die Sterne zittern is a gripping and moving coming-of-age novel set in late 1930s Leipzig. Harro, the narrator and…
Hans Jonathan (1784–1827) was a most unlikely Icelander. With his dark complexion and curly hair, he looked very different from…
A drawing pinned to the wall of 11-year-old Leila’s attic bedroom shows a tiny dark spot in the midst of…
‘When they see a human being, they stand up on their hind legs and start rocking from side to side.…
The year is 1578, the place Tallin, Livonia. The all-German town council has gathered to discuss beer tariffs, drains –…
The tiny island of Själö lies in the Nagu Archipelago off Turku, Finland. From 1889 to 1962, it housed an…
One evening in August 1947, twenty-four-year-old David Rosenberg from Łódź alights in Södertälje, a small Swedish town with a big…
