Paolo Maurensig was born and lives in Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, in north-east Italy. He wrote his first novel, The Lüneburg Variation in…
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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…