Compelling, fast-paced and self-aware, Doris Knecht’s The Message is a deftly told novel by a writer at the top of her game. Examining our obsession with social media from a femi
Four bodies lie about, motionless. A broken sign next to them says ‘Roma, go back to India’. A reporter on the scene asks them to stand up because the show must go on. A wom
What was the floor like in your childhood home? Resi, the narrator of Anke Stelling’s Higher Ground, has a moment in the opening section of the novel when she realises her mother
WEIMAR, 1921 I still don’t know where the director’s room is. According to the big clock in the foyer it’s almost five, and I stray through the corridors, hoping to spot a si
