Nearly a century ago, when even the threat of Nazi Germany failed to dent the general optimism that mankind had…
Max Easterman
So much has been written about Hitler’s Germany that it’s easy to forget that much of it is non-fiction. The…
The Basel Killings (originally published in 2004), is the first of a series of novels featuring Inspector Peter Hunkeler and…
This is Gianrico Carofiglio’s latest outing for his campaigning lawyer, Guido Guerrieri from Puglia (his name implies ‘warrior’). We left…
In his international bestseller and first novel in English translation, The Dinner (2012), Herman Koch meticulously exposed the hypocrisies at…
Paolo Maurensig was born and lives in Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, in north-east Italy. He wrote his first novel, The Lüneburg Variation in…
Mihail Sebastian was born Iosif Hechter in 1907 in Brăila on the Danube; he changed his name in 1927 when…
Antoine Laurain will, for me, always be associated with time-shifting and ‘magic’ – as in his previous novels, Vintage 1954…
Marion Brunet is one of France’s best-known writers for young adults; this is her first novel for a general adult…
The history of jazz is littered with books, both scholarly and otherwise, that have tried, and so often failed, to…
Hans Fallada was the pen name of Rudolf Ditzen, born in 1893 in Greifswald. In his day, he was rated…
Jan Balabán is one of the Czech Republic’s foremost writers of the last half-century, but is hardly known in the…
